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A Citygarden Christmas in St. Louis – Free Background

Please enjoy this background of the whimsical Citygarden in St. Louis. The multi-colored globes change colors and the lights normally light fountains in the summer. It is a wonderful place to visit in the summer with children and the young at heart.

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daylight savings spent – A Haiku on Light in Winter – Autumn Poetry

daylight savings spent
bank winter fires against the
dying of the light

The conceit of this haiku may be too clever by half with its play with the concept of saving and spending light, especially as most of us don’t even have to rely on actual fires to survive in the winter–though only a little ways removed from most of our homes real fires are burning to bring blazing electric lights to them, in the furnace of a coal fired plant or the contained glow of a reactor.

I like the thought of a fire banked throughout the winter, which is fueled and blown to life when needed—which is stoked to extra brightness during the winter festivals, one of which for Christians is all about light of a more brilliant, darkness-penetrating sort.

Something to think about as we string our lights to twinkling against the gloom.