Well, did go, got the shopping all done. Unpleasant sticker shock. Ten years ago, my cartload would have been about $100 less. . . . Guess there's more than one way to steal, lol!
Gorgeous drive and home about mid-dusk. There is something quite lovely about seeing the landscape all in its bones.
AND--less than three weeks before the light starts returning!! Which for me always has such a feeling of spring about it!
puddle, Solstice arrives just as we will be starting our family Christmas gathering. I'll be psyched along with you, as I am each year. The returning of the light is such a joy deep in the body, where the ancient memories are.
I'll be very pleased when the Light starts coming back. Donno why, but for some reason this year the Winter's dark has been bothering me more than usual.
“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” —Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
Here today the weather was misty, not to say foggy - rather nice to look out at from a cozy room, but damp and raw, quite nasty to be out in. Fortunately, I didn't have to go out.
Received my January magazines today, which I suppose means I'd better get busy and finish the December Analog. Got distracted the past few days. Among other things, I've gotten back to The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals. It's very difficult to read, including as it does graphic descriptions of torture; but, it's an important book I think. It lays out, for instance, precisely how directly responsible Cheney and his lieutenants, Yoo and Addison, were for the policy of torture. It also shows how thoroughly Cheney blanketed the upper echelons of the White House and the Defense Department with his own lick-spitles so as to stonewall any and all descent and protest. Then, of course, there's the CIA... And the fact that Bush was nothing more nor less than Cheney's puppet. I said it at the time and I'll say it again: Both Bush and Cheney's whole cabal ought to be languishing in cells at the Hague awaiting trials for War Crimes. But I'm not going to hold my breath waiting. :P The book gives me nightmares, but it is a very important book. I'm glad the library selected it for me.
Howard warms the cockles and mussels of our hearts, Alive, Alive-O!
ReplyDeleteSLP version of The Internationale, 1911 [Click] Found via University of California Music Library.
Frost here this evening; the wind machines in the citrus orchards across the river seem to be going full blast.
--Alan
ReplyDeleteWell, did go, got the shopping all done. Unpleasant sticker shock. Ten years ago, my cartload would have been about $100 less. . . . Guess there's more than one way to steal, lol!
Gorgeous drive and home about mid-dusk. There is something quite lovely about seeing the landscape all in its bones.
AND--less than three weeks before the light starts returning!! Which for me always has such a feeling of spring about it!
puddle, Solstice arrives just as we will be starting our family Christmas gathering. I'll be psyched along with you, as I am each year. The returning of the light is such a joy deep in the body, where the ancient memories are.
DeleteI'll be very pleased when the Light starts coming back. Donno why, but for some reason this year the Winter's dark has been bothering me more than usual.
Delete“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”
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So true.
DeleteHere today the weather was misty, not to say foggy - rather nice to look out at from a cozy room, but damp and raw, quite nasty to be out in. Fortunately, I didn't have to go out.
ReplyDeleteReceived my January magazines today, which I suppose means I'd better get busy and finish the December Analog. Got distracted the past few days. Among other things, I've gotten back to The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals. It's very difficult to read, including as it does graphic descriptions of torture; but, it's an important book I think. It lays out, for instance, precisely how directly responsible Cheney and his lieutenants, Yoo and Addison, were for the policy of torture. It also shows how thoroughly Cheney blanketed the upper echelons of the White House and the Defense Department with his own lick-spitles so as to stonewall any and all descent and protest. Then, of course, there's the CIA... And the fact that Bush was nothing more nor less than Cheney's puppet. I said it at the time and I'll say it again: Both Bush and Cheney's whole cabal ought to be languishing in cells at the Hague awaiting trials for War Crimes. But I'm not going to hold my breath waiting. :P The book gives me nightmares, but it is a very important book. I'm glad the library selected it for me.
Up here in the northland, Cat, we hit 54F and everyone felt a premonition of Spring!
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