We attend to the Winter Solstice, that pivotal season that is both the darkest time and the time when new light begins growing, in the world outside and, we hope, in the world inside us. T. S. Eliot leads us off, then two Kinks songs about dancing in the darkness (with the astounding line: “To be yourself you have to put on an act”), and a Winter Meditation from my CD Journey through the Seasons. Then comes Leonard Cohen’s voice responding in the darkness, “Hineni”, Here I am. Then the light growing, with a Spiritual, an O Antiphon, a Taizé chant, and Mendelssohn’s Notturno. You are invited to attend.
