Winter Solstice 2016
DECEMBER 21, 2016
**Here comes the sun**
**Here comes the sun, and I say**
**It's all right**
**Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter**
**Little darling, it feels like years since it's been here**
**Here comes the sun**
**Here comes the sun, and I say**
**It's all right**
**Little darling, the smiles returning to the faces**
**Little darling, it seems like years since it's been here**
**Here comes the sun**
**Here comes the sun, and I say**
**It's all right**
**Sun, sun, sun, here it comes**
**Sun, sun, sun, here it comes**
**Sun, sun, sun, here it comes**
**Sun, sun, sun, here it comes**
**Sun, sun,...**
**-The Beatles 1969**
**Here comes the sun, and I say**
**It's all right**
**Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter**
**Little darling, it feels like years since it's been here**
**Here comes the sun**
**Here comes the sun, and I say**
**It's all right**
**Little darling, the smiles returning to the faces**
**Little darling, it seems like years since it's been here**
**Here comes the sun**
**Here comes the sun, and I say**
**It's all right**
**Sun, sun, sun, here it comes**
**Sun, sun, sun, here it comes**
**Sun, sun, sun, here it comes**
**Sun, sun, sun, here it comes**
**Sun, sun,...**
**-The Beatles 1969**
\*\*\*\*\*
I can remember the first time I heard this song...
sitting high above the high school football field
on the steps of the Healdsburg Cemetary as a teenager.
Something clicked inside of me that day
and that moment is forever in my memory,
as was the viewing of these life-size pieces
of amazing paper maché figures
and meeting their creator,
San MIquel de Allende artist Adolfo Falcón Garza
in October of 2012.
\*\*\*\*\*
May this return of the sun
touch our hearts
and open to this new light birthing within us all.
Solstice 2016
I can remember the first time I heard this song...
sitting high above the high school football field
on the steps of the Healdsburg Cemetary as a teenager.
Something clicked inside of me that day
and that moment is forever in my memory,
as was the viewing of these life-size pieces
of amazing paper maché figures
and meeting their creator,
San MIquel de Allende artist Adolfo Falcón Garza
in October of 2012.
\*\*\*\*\*
May this return of the sun
touch our hearts
and open to this new light birthing within us all.
Solstice 2016
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