Happy New Year!

The Last Sunset of 2007, Fire Island, NY 12.31.07 - 4:38 pm - Donald L. Brooks

Times Square, New Years Eve, 1938

The Power of Pain

Pain is a powerful force. It can make a grown man howl like an animal in the middle of the night, a child cry until she chokes to death on her own tears, the best of friends betray each other as their eyes are gouged from their sockets, a broken heart leaps to freedom, another slashes the object of rejection while still another eats his own dog to sate the gnaw of starvation.

Agony -- Egon Schiele, 1912

Christmas

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On His Way

Solstice

Newgrange Winter Solstice

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Today brought the Winter Solstice to North America.

The actual moment of the Sun's lowest latitude in the sky is December 22 -- 6:08 am Universal Time (EST: Dec 22, 1:08 am; CST: Dec 22, 12:08 am; MST: Dec 21, 11:08 pm; and PST: Dec 21, 10:08 pm.

Welcome Yule!

Hold It!

Ozzie Guillen and Alex Rodriguez, from the YouTube video The Way I Are: An Alex Rodriguez Slideshow.

11.24.07

Full moon rising, photograph taken from my mother's window on her 88th birthday, November 24, 2007