WISHING YOU PEACE ON THIS...

~WINTER SOLSTICE~Click on photo to enlarge - ©2008 jim otterstrom

On this shortest day of the year, as we begin moving once again toward the warmth, light, and optimism of longer days, Peggy and I wish, for each of you, that the days and seasons of this new life-cycle will be tempered with compassion and progress toward peace among all the diverse people of the world.

And, as a species, that we will also deepen our understanding and appreciation of this beautiful planet, and the interdependence we share with so many other wondrous forms of life.

~PEACE ON EARTH~

The window pictured above is the third stained-glass window I made, way back in 1974.

It is a small window, 11 1/2 x 15 inches, which has never before been installed in a frame, but was carted around in boxes for the past 34 years.

It's been dropped, bent, cracked, broken, and repaired several times, and, has now found a permanent home in my new tool-shed/workshop.

I was fresh out of my stained-glass window class when I built this from my very first original design.

I was still learning to solder and the window is a bit amateurish compared to my later work with glass, but I always liked the design, the colors, and the selections of glass I used in the piece.

I'm glad the window now has a home where I can enjoy it's bluesy, wintry, introspective illumination every day.