Peace Country Dance of the Northern Lights

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Story on the Back:

On October 10, 2024, our beloved Bishop’s wife called to tell us about a show she was sure we’d want to see. We are blessed to live on the edge of town with the Peace River hills in our backyard, so my husband and I scrambled up to the “first balcony” behind our house to watch the heavens perform a once-in-a-universe live improv work of art. We felt like we were the only ones in the theatre except for the trees and forest creatures.
It is a challenge to convey the miraculous beauty of the Aurora borealis with a single photograph, because it is the movement that is most intriguing… the morphing of colours and shapes with bursts of brightness here…and there…sky spirits dancing from one part of the stage to another and back again in different costumes. Sometimes I’ll see a circle dance or angel wings or a bird. My husband imagines being a little mouse looking up into the living room drapes being blown about.
I was raised on country dances, and I have fond memories of people waltzing, jiving, square dancing, line dancing, bird dancing… my cousin, Hazel, whirling me around the dance floor doing the polka with such joy and fun it left us breathless and laughing with delight.
The northern lights, on this night of nights, beckoned me into a Peace Country dance.
The music was silent, my breathing deep, and my soul romanced.