Large Fierce Mammal

“Perception suffers a profound jolt when we are placed in states of quietude in darkness. Our hearing takes the lead then, and the signals from all the living and existing entities around us can be detected–not with our hearing only, but with a combination of the auditory and visual senses, in that order. In darkness the eyes become subsidiary to the ears”. ~ Don Juan Matus

Welcome back, weary traveller, to another installment of our annual Winter series, A Long Winter’s Night. As we near the end of a decidedly cacophonous year, it pleases me to no end that some of you have come through with enough of your senses, and sense, intact to find your way here.

In this season of a profoundly terrible beauty and the most primal of celebrations, the “return of the Sun” is at once a time of hope and anticipation, and pregnant with dark foreboding. Even of isolation in the cold and dark, notwithstanding the proximity of a surrounding throng.

Move closer to the fire Goode Reader, and join us.