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Here is a wonderful poem by Cynthia Eyster. Kore is another name for the goddess, Persephone. She is the daughter/maiden aspect of the Earth Goddess, Demeter and the embodiment of the Earth's fertility. Persephone/Kore spends part of the year in the Underworld as the consort of Hades. During that time, the mourning Demeter gives us the winter. The complexity of the mother/duaghter relationship is also woven into this story. Cynthia uses the metaphor and arresting images in her words to spark a melange of feeling. - Editors.

Votive tablet of Persephone found in the holy shrine of Persephone at Locri in the district Mannella, Italy. Photo credit: Wikipedia

Did you think I would stay with you forever?
Wrapped in your skirts,
your soft arms pleading,
shedding petals like the rain?

Too much sun obscures the dark
place I've come to,
the mirror I lift each day,
my image sharpened into angularity.

The red fan of seeds in his palm,
hunger knotted, waiting,
the swell of dark grief,
I bear like the earth bears your wailing form.

You trace the moon's path with moving lips;
the wan light diminishes in the coin-filled river.

When I return, rain will fall from the sky.
We will collect our tears,
each a cleansed and costly seed.

Lovely. It is always stunning how words have the capacity to fill the mind and heart to overflowing. - Editors.

Thanks to Lifehacker, here is a review of several independent web applications that can make your life easier! - Editors.

Useful Web Applications You May Not Know About

Qipit (http://www.qipit.com)
Cameraphone image scan to PDF via email
Snap a photo of a whiteboard or document with your camera phone and email it to Qipit.com, a webapp that scans your photo to a PDF document and stores it online automatically. You can also fax images of documents from Qipit, too.

Ning (http://www.ning.com)
Social network creator
Build your own social networking community site with Ning, a WYSIWYG web site creator that offers user registration and profiles, polls, blogs, photo albums and boards at your own URL for free.

Jott (http://jott.com/default.aspx)
Voice to text reminders, blog posts and calendar events
If you ever call your answering machine to leave yourself a reminder message, Jott's for you. Call Jott to leave your message instead, and get it transcribed and sent to your email address. You can also call Jott and send your voice message to your blog or Twitter account. Also add events to your Google Calendar via Jott as well as other services.

Anywhere.FM (www.anywhere.fm/player)
Music library hosting and web playback
Stop toting your iPod or entire iTunes library around on your local hard drive: instead, upload unlimited MP3's to Anywhere.FM and listen from your web browser from anywhere.

Doodle (www.doodle.com)
Group polling for scheduling large events
When organizing a recent reunion event that involves upwards of 80 people trying to figure out what the best date was for everyone, Doodle's group polling app saved the day. Set up a Doodle poll with possible dates and times for any kind of gathering with lots of attendees. Email out the Doodle URL, where each person can enter what times they can make it, and see who else is available and when.

Netvibes (www.netvibes.com)
Browser start page
Set up your web dashboard at Netvibes, a sleek, drag and drop, customizable start page that gets all your crucial information in one place the moment you launch your browser.

Zoho Suite (www.zoho.com)
Web-based office suite
While Google Docs seems to be the first product people think of when online office suites come up, the lesser-known Zoho Suite offers more apps and features. See how Zoho stacks up against Google Docs.

Meebo (www.meebo.com)
Web-based instant messenger
Chat with your buddies across multiple IM services without installing a thing using the Meebo web-based chat client. Great for folks in IT lockdown, Meebo lets you log in and chat with buddies on AIM, MSN, Yahoo! Messenger, ICQ, and Jabber/GTalk.

TiddlyWiki (www.tiddlywiki.com)
Personal, one-page wiki
While TiddlyWiki isn't a hosted webapp like the others, it uses a web page to store your information locally. TiddlyWiki has to be seen to be believed, and it's also spawned many offshoots like GTDTiddlyWiki. See how to get organized with GTD TiddlyWiki.

Remember the Milk (www.rememberthemilk.com)
Task manager, reminder system, personal organizer
Among the slew of web-based task managers that have flooded the internet in the past couple of years, Remember the Milk stands head and shoulders above the rest: its modern interface and deep feature set make organizing your to-do's actually fun. Organize your life with Remember the Milk!

Source: Lifehacker, http://lifehacker.com.

Many of us remember the movie Bambi and the special bond between the young deer and the rabbit, Thumper. German photographer, Tanja Askani has captured the loving interactions between a REAL young deer and rabbit. Her photos are amazing and remind us of the exquisite possibilities that friendship offers! You can visit her German language website at: http://www.tanja-askani.de/index.html to see more wonderful examples of her work.- Editors.

Our readers are certainly a talented group of people! We end this month's Enlightenments with a lovely reassurance for Midwinter time. This poem, Ever Green, was written by S. J. Barker.

With a back drop of evergreen.
Holding,
Grounding to the Earth,
Letting all know, will be alright.

We are being held,
Until the Springtime arises.
New, young green appearing on those now empty branches.
The new of our lives
The fresh hope of beginnings
The young of all that's possible
We are being held.

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