I watched the live stream from Newgrange this morning hosted by the Office of Public Works (and soon uploaded to their YT channel). It never gets old, this connection to the past (is that irony?) and the thought of how people worked out the technology and marked the passage of the longest night in hopes that the turn toward light had once more begun. We need that spark in the darkness.

This year for so many feels dark. War and genocide rage around us. It should make our petty concerns vanish, but we live in our little worlds and focus on what we can do. Our little actions can have bigger consequences than we imagine. You never know what will be the pebble that sets off the avalanche.

Sometimes you have to feel your way out of the darkness until you find your spark.