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RENEE NICOLE GOOD ... A Poet's Tribute!
Grief is love with nowhere to go—
so we turn it into words.
Into memory.
Into resistance against forgetting.
#ReneeNicoleGood #InBlessedMemory
#LightInDarkTimes #MemoryAndLove #SpokenWordPoetry #HealingThroughArt #NorrisRMcDonald #BittaTruth
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In a world growing harder,
her goodness still pulses.
Read. Remember. Carry the light forward.
#ReneeNicoleGood #InBlessedMemory
#LightInDarkTimes #MemoryAndLove #SpokenWordPoetry #HealingThroughArt #NorrisRMcDonald #BittaTruth
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SHINE, Issue 2 launches March 15th...available worldwide.
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A light-skinned man with shoulder-length dark hair talks to a teen boy with long, blonde hair. The man’s right hand is on the boy’s left shoulder. The words “There is always hope” are at the bottom of the animated gif in white.
“There is always hope.”
— Aragorn, Lord of the Rings
#LOTR #LightInDarkTimes #Hope #Tolkien
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What wonders there are to see, in pond and wood, in daylight, or darkness. #lightindarktimes #21NightsofYule
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A pencil sketch of the skyline of Istanbul, seen from across the Bosphorus straight. A pencil case and Turkish teacup is on the table. Photo and sketch by Xander Sable.
Time shaves away like a sharpened pencil, and suddenly it is eleven years since crossing the Bosphorus; not a loss, but time to return, memories ripe for refreshing. #21NightsofYule #lightindarktimes
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An absolutely enormous Christmas Tree in the grand stairwell of Leeds Castle, Kent, in 2021. It's decorated in red and gold in a theme of the '12 days of Christmas' carol with masses of lights. Photo by Xander Sable
A beautiful little origami star made from sheet music on a Christmas Tree with lights and baubles in the background. From the Leeds Castle 2021 display. Photo by Xander Sable.
For all the magnificence of wealth, a twist of priceless artistry shines brighter in the memory. ✨ #lightindarktimes #21NightsofYule
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A view across the green scrubland, with the tall tower of an old chimney still standing in the distance. The sky is blue and speckled with a sheet of thin cloud. Photo by Xander Sable.
They hold this ground, where we can go no further. And all that rises up is the memory of our burning, a monolith, beyond reach through the verdant sea of uncontrollable life. #21NightsofYule #lightindarktimes
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A sun sets through clouds at Midsummer, reflected in the canal in the foreground, fringed with long grasses. Photo by Xander Sable.
Nearly six months since Midsummer, the sun never further away, the turning so close. #lightindarktimes #21NightsofYule
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A sparrowhawk among Autumn oakleaves just turning from green to bronze. Yellow legs match their bright yellow eyes, and their front is banded white and buff, with a brown back. Dappled sunlight is shining through. Photo by Xander Sable
Eyes on the sky for a safer, sunnier day, and flit back here for Night Ten. #lightindarktimes
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Close-up of the dewy spider's web between the branches of Verbena, with asters in the background. Photo by Xander Sable
Keep all eight of your feet on the ground, and weave your way back for Night Nine. #lightindarktimes
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A lovely olive-green Christmas tree made entirely of ballet shoes, with baubles and bows and a golden fairy, in a shop window in London. A nutcracker doll is in the corner, and a headless mannequin wears a pink leotard and white tutu in the background. Photo by Xander Sable.
They made me go to ballet, for seven years from the age of three, like forcing a bear to dance. Here's gratitude: I never have to do it again, and can now enjoy these silky accoutrements of torture as pretty things for lighter-footed souls. #21NightsofYule #lightindarktimes
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Seventh Night, 2023. Magical snowy greetings, on this gale-force morning! One day, I may get to conjure another Snowqueen... ❄️✨❄️✨❄️ #lightindarktimes #21NightsofYule
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A black pony and carriage disappear into the fog around the bend on a dirt lane. The verges are full of wildflowers. Photo by Xander Sable.
Best not to follow the carriage, now. Mind the path back here for Seventh Night. #lightindarktimes
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A black horse and carriage disappears into the fog at the turn of the bend in a dirt lane. Wildflowers fill the verges. Photo by Xander Sable.
Best not to follow the carriage, now. Mind the path, and I'll see you for Seventh Night. #lightindarktimes
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Sixth Night, 2023: And *now* I can repost the crocheted cuteness, it actually being the right day and all... 😀 #21NightsofYule #lightindarktimes #craft #yarnbombing #textileart #Christmas
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Spindle fruits (Euonymus europaeus) hang in bright pink clusters, opening their complex, quartered seedcases to reveal bright orange seeds, Woodland is in the background. Photo by Xander Sable.
An absolute mass of spindle fruits (Euonymus europaeus) over the thin little shrub - it looks like the hedge has been airbrushed. An oak is in the background with all its leaves coppery. Photo by Xander Sable
Spindle flaunts a thousand shameless hearts, en masse, ventricles split open onto neon orange. A mast year for these flamingos of the woods, flamboyance tropical in the chilly wind, bronze oaks and golden maple outdone by flagrant saucy pink. #21NightsofYule #lightindarktimes
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Night Five, 2023: this was still one of the loveliest things I've ever found. 😊💚 #21NightsofYule #lightindarktimes 🌱
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Sparkly ginormous glitter-ball baubles in gold and silver in the escalator well at Selfridge's in London, throwing sparkles all over the columns and walls. It's a lovely display, and costs nothing to visit. Photo by Xander Sable
Marvel for free at the galaxies and planets, and save some sparkle for Night Five. #lightindarktimes
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Ivy flower close-up, still in bloom even into December, with two big flies happily feasting on the scented nectar. One is just taking off. Photo by Xander Sable.
Watch out for her web, and flit back tomorrow for Fourth Night. #lightindarktimes
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Third Night, the First. No little friend brought in this year, yet. This Angle Shades came in on the Queen's Tears, Bilbergia nutans. #21NightsofYule #lightindarktimes #invertebrates 🐙 #houseplants
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Once, I heard someone say about starting our own traditions. A year on, and the times are no less sobering. #21NightsofYule #lightindarktimes #amwriting
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Nacreous clouds fill the darkening sky with pale, rounded rainbows in pink and turquoise, luminous behind the dark slate-grey fluffy clouds nearer to. I'd never seen anything like it. Photo by Xander Sable.
The globe pauses, teetering on stillness, a cycle almost closed. Yule again, and round it goes, the year and years unwinding and unwinding; and yet, look up! Unexpected wonder casts its nacreous glamour, our world still magical, in her moment. #21NightsofYule #lightindarktimes
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At Sissinghurst Castle, a huge and fabulous dark stone urn decorated with a curly-horned faun head sits in a ragstoned forecourt. The red-brick manor house is in the background, and elaborate arched windows reflect the blue sky. Photo by Xander Sable.
Poor Mr Tumnus, forever petrified before the castle, awaiting the breath of Spring. Listen, though, dear ones - the lion's roar is just on the cusp of hearing as the longest night draws near. #21NightsofYule #lightindarktimes
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A fabulous, rickety-looking iron staircase spiralling up a very tall brick-built bell-tower in Verona, Italy. It wraps around in strange segments and doesn't seem quite round... but it must be. Photo by Xander Sable
Onwards and upwards can be the most Escheresque and punishing task, especially as the wheel of the year slows and the axle runs out of grease. But keep the view from the top in mind; it could be even better than you hope for. #21NightsofYule #lightindarktimes
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A Victorian stone angel, covered in snow from the East side, her face obscured, in a snowy churchyard in Kent. Photo by Xander Sable
Step into the snow, an otherworld in itself, stopping time in its silent tracks. And wolves run unbounded again through white deserted streets, all everyday taint effaced, while sleighbells carry distant and icy-clear. #21NightsofYule #lightindarktimes
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Statues of clerics outside an arched door at the ruined Saltwood Castle, covered in moss and lichen, with a pink flowering vine twined around them. Vibrant green vegetation leans in. Photo by Xander Sable.
But when they came to the court past the gate-tower, with its bartisans empty-windowed and sightless, they found flowers knocking at an unhinged door, the masonry straggled over by a rebellion of growth, and its people frozen into mossy stone... #21NightsofYule #lightindarktimes
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A few little stripy red tomatoes in a china bowl, the last of the Summer's crop, only just ripened. Photo by Xander Sable
Shiny red and stripy, the last homegrown troops of Autumn, finally ready for kitchen duty. Sometimes, when you think something will never survive to fruition, you just haven't left it on the windowsill long enough. #21NightsofYule #lightindarktimes
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