Just Delicate Needles

Just Delicate Needles

It's so delicate, the light.

And there's so little of it. The dark

is huge.

Just delicate needles, the light,

in an endless night.

And it has such a long way to go

through such desolate space.

So let's be gentle with it.

Cherish it.

So it will come again in the morning.

We hope.

--by Rolf Jacobsen

Translated by Robert Hedin

Happy Winter Solstice!  Tonight will find me drinking Swedish Glogg and singing carols and reading books like The Longest Night to the children.  I'm not really sure how that will go, with the glogg and all, but we'll see.  We are VERY excited.  We'll also be decorating a Solstice Tree outside with bagels dipped in peanut butter and birdseed, and exchanging homemade presents.  And then the children will crash, and the moms will too.  I just love my homebirthin' hippie friends that I can share these things with.  Makes me VERY happy.  We get so damn giddy about it.  And there is snow on the ground, making it even more special. 

Oh, and in case I remember to look back next December, let this be a reminder to maybe get the Christmas Tree sooner than six days before Christmas? 

vintage krista and 'i'm just a dork with a camera'

So i picked up a handful of vintage photos of me when I was down in the basement supposed to be getting out christmas decorations.  it's high time these surface on the 'net, isn't it?!  Lily wears the nightgown that I have on in the photo just above.  Wild.

I just got back from a 3 mile run.  It's 23, 15 windchill.  I felt like cursing the whole way, i'm sure i muttered several curse words, but in the end i'm always glad i went.  very grateful for my little ipod that helps get me through it.

so, this is me, pre-run.  no idea why i took these.

One of the most beautiful songs ever

I recently found out about this song, Snow on the Sahara, by Anggun.  I heard the french version first, then when I searched youtube to see who Anggun is, I saw the english version.  What's amazing is, even though Anggun is huge in Europe, this song came out in 1998.  I could have had this song in my life for 12 years now, and i've only just heard it.

Every time I have a new song obsession, I think, wow!  I've heard it all now.  how can it get any better than this?  And yet it does.  We'll never come to the end of great and inspiring and gorgeous music.  Wow.

Snow on the Sahara lyrics
Only tell me that you still want me here
When you wander off out there
To those hills of dust and hard winds that blow
In that dry white ocean alone
Lost out in the desert
You are lost out in the desert
But to stand with you in a ring of fire
I'll forget the days gone by
I'll protect your body and guard your soul
From mirages in your sight
Lost out in the desert

If your hopes scatter like the dust across your track
I'll be the moon that shines on your path
The sun may blind our eyes, I'll pray the skies above
For snow to fall on the Sahara
If that's the only place where you can leave your doubts
I'll hold you up and be your way out
And if we burn away,
I'll pray the skies above for snow to fall on the Sahara

Just a wish and I will cover your shoulders
With veils of silk and gold
When the shadows come and darken your heart
Leaving you with regrets so cold
Lost out in the desert

If your hopes scatter like the dust across your track
I'll be the moon that shines on your path
The sun may blind our eyes, I'll pray the skies above
For snow to fall on the Sahara
If that's the only place where you can leave your doubts
I'll hold you up and be your way out
And if we burn away,
I'll pray the skies above for snow to fall on the Sahara

messing around w/ my camera

I spent some time reflecting (ha ha) with my camera today.  Gee, this is just like the post I made 6 months ago!  I hate to say I am no farther along.  I haven't put in the time, honestly, and I'm still intimidated and I have this mental block.  It's like me + math I guess...I feel like I just can't 'get it.'  Luckily I have a couple of photographer friends that have offered me some tutorials.  So...I hope to make some major progress in the coming year.

Night Air

I was introduced to an amazing song this week:  Night Air by Jamie Woon.  I was so captivated by it that of COURSE I had to hoop to it.  A lyric search turned up these lyrics (posted on someone's blog, the song is pretty new).

Night Air

Night air has the strangest flavor

Space to breathe and time to savor

All that night air has to lend me

Till the morning makes me angry

In the night air

The night air

I've acquired a kind of madness

Daylight fills my heart with sadness

Only silent skies can soothe me

Feel that night air flowing through me

In the night air

The night air

I don't need those car crash colors

I control the skies above us

Close my eyes to make the night fall

Comfort of a world revolving

I can hear the earth in orbit

In the night air

The night air

I've acquired a taste for silence

Darkness fills my heart with calmness

And each thought like a thief is driven

To steal the night air from the heavens

In the night air

The night air

Here is the hooping video I made to this song