Normally I tend to write a post, then copy it and paste it here. For once, I am writing directly into the blog.
I went to bed last night feeling sick with fear, anxiety and sheer disappointment. I have long felt that the human animal is a plague on this planet, something that many have disagreed with. We have so much potential for goodness and greatness, and yet it is so seldom realised. Those readers in the UK will know we have just had a general election; if you are someone who is delighted with the result, then I would beg of you, please forebear with any comments. For I am not delighted. I am very, very scared.
I do not have the energy or inclination to argue or even discuss this. I do not wish to get into slanging matches or even patient explanations of why I am wrong and others are right. Like many people, I am grieving.
But today, as well as being Friday the 13th (originally a day which honoured the goddess, and has been subverted to be a day of ill omen) it is St Lucy’s Day. St Lucy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Lucy%27s_Day was a 3rd century martyr who brought sustenance to Christians hiding in the catacombs, lighting her way by wearing on her head a wreath of candles. This crown of lights is what I wish to emulate. In Scandinavia, she is celebrated extensively on this day as a light-bringer and the harbinger of Christmastide.
Please therefore share links to good news, to photos of light, of stories about goodness and light, and be yourself a candle in the crown of lights. We can hold back the darkness, but not by pretending it isn’t there. Great evil is happening. Only by grace and by bringing light and love to the world can it be beaten back.
Zen and the Art of Tightrope Walking 
“. . .Seldom is heard . . . a discouraging word.”
I think St. Lucy would feel very comfortable with Gene Autry’s song, “Home on the Range.”
Thanks for sharing this story with us!
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I share your sense of grief and upset at what is happening, Viv. I think honouring St Lucy and visualising the light is a lovely way to try and prevail… Thank you. xxx
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You are another of us! We both feel this is a time of darkness (I have had a sense of foreboding since the 2016 results) and have had several people share this recently – 2 FB friends and someone from my form at school. The results this time are in a way not a surprise as although one hoped, the darkness being shifted would’ve been a glorious and unexpected surprise. And now, even the Guardian newspaper has an article where the writer is grieving (though she suggests we all make effort by volunteering and donating to charity – a good thing, but, actually, doesn’t that play into the hands of the idea that the ‘poor and needy’ should be supported by the rest of us giving & doing charitable works, rather than a decent welfare system? The time for such thinking was over and we shouldn’t go back!) Anyhow, what I meant to say was, I support & agree with your way of looking at it. (And very sadly, the church does not – they are trying ‘unity and no criticism’ instead – !)
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