As the Old Year Ends...and the New begins...
✨ I found this image online, titled "Father Time holding the New Year Babe."
That made me curious because doesn't the old year die as the new year is born?
As I thought, "Someone had better grab that baby!" I suspected it was really
a rendition of Simeon in the Temple. So I looked up the image, and sure enough
it is a painting by Andrey Shishkin titled "Simeon and baby Jesús."
That event allegedly took place 40 days after Jesus' birth, but I'll take it.
It is a gorgeous painting!! It looks ancient but Shishkin is a modern painter, only 58 years old.
Change is First...!
ReplyDeleteHow will you be spending New Year's Eve?
ReplyDeleteWe will be with Eldest and his wife, PhD*Son and our three oldest grands!
Very much looking forward to it. We'll see who fades first: the 12 year old, the 11 year old, the 9 year old or Grandad Wil who will have worked all day. Ha!
I'll be sitting in front of my computer screen as usual. With a glass of Madeira ready to toast the New Year.
DeleteThe Song of Simeon Nunc dimittis
ReplyDeleteLuke 2:29‑32
Lord, you now have set your servant free
to go in peace as you have promised;
For these eyes of mine have seen the Savior,
whom you have prepared for all the world to see:
A Light to enlighten the nations,
and the glory of your people Israel.
I really like that "A Light to enlighten the nations" part. We need a leader who is like that.
Yes, Alan, I suspect Elizabeth Warren is running, and so is Joe Biden. I have my doubts that Bernie will run again, but I sure would like that. I really don't want a DNC acolyte.
Elizabeth Warren throws her hat into the ring [Click]
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Here is Warren’s campaign announcement video [Click] Not bad!
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Well, in any event I’m going to readjust my regular contributions, probably tomorrow. Heck, I might even re-register as a Democrat.
Re the 2020 Democratic primary article: I think the "Impeachment Fever" section is off base. Once Trump is voted out of office, impeachment is moot. Barring unexpected events, I think that by this time next year people will be focusing on the election rather than impeachment. As they should.
DeleteWell, they'd better do SOMETHING because I don't think we can take two more years of trump destroying environmental protections, ignoring the law, making bizarre military decisions when he's never even served and knows *nothing* about geography or the political climate in other countries. With his encouragement hate crimes are on the rise, as are gun deaths. He's got to go by any means possible.
DeleteAmen, Susan! I agree wholeheartedly and brokenheartedly...!
DeleteThrow him Out! Throw him Out! Throw him Out! ...
I now have 117 emamils - every single one either asking for money or offering a sale. Yesterday I had 90 and erased them all. The 117 today are NEW. Yesterday I actually replied to one from Adam Schiff, "Dammit, Adam, I'm POOR. Stop asking me for money."
ReplyDeleteI'm not really POOR poor, but I am on a fixed income. If politicians and political groups hope to get more of their donations from the grassroots they'd better start helping us *have* money to donate instead of the "trickle down" that never comes.
My experience is very similar: 98 emails as of 4:30 today. A couple were Facebook notifications but the others were either requests for money (charities and advocacy groups as well as politicians) or advertisements (from companies I have dealt with before). I do have money to give, but with rare exceptions not more than once a year to any given organization. Sending a dozen emails a week serves no purpose.
DeleteIt serves a very important purpose. It pisses the recipient off sufficiently to prompt her to go through the sometimes tortuous process of unsubscribing.
DeleteAnd 24 more by 7 p.m. The total includes not only two from Elizabeth Warren's exploratory committee but two from Julian Castro's.
DeleteWell, at least we are beginning to get a sense of who's running.
Gee. I have not been so sorely afflicted; but I have been fairly parsimonious about my political campaign contacts. Today I turned off my monthly donation to Brand New Congress and tuned down my ACLU donation by two dollars a month--those will be shifted over to Warren tomorrow. Poor People's Campaign, Food Bank, Wikipedia and Guardian stay the same.
ReplyDeleteThe Media’s Post-Advertising Future Is Also Its Past [Click] A thought that had occurred to me, better put than I ever have.
ReplyDeleteIt is now 2019 in Chicagoland. Boom! Boom! Boom! May2019 be better than its predecessor!
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful painting.
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