Watching and Waiting...
First Sunday in Advent...World A.I.D.S. Day...the first day of December...a convergence of images and ideas and thoughts as I sit here in the early-morning darkness, awaiting the rising of the sun. superstition... The Ancients, in these ever-lengthening nights, lived in ever-deepening fear that the light would not return... the darkness which enshrouded them more and more would remain, the earth a cold, unfriendly place where neither humans nor beasts could long survive. How welcome firelight and candlelight must have been...causing the fearsome darkness to retreat, holding the encroaching, threatening shadows at bay...granting the light of hope amidst cold and dark. Darkness became the enem...