Monthly Archives: December 2018

Christmas Perspective (supplied by a doctor-friend)

“We all have expiry dates. Some of us will die today, some tomorrow. Some next month, some 15 years from now. No one gets out alive.” We should never kid ourselves or dwell in ignorant bliss. Especially at Christmas as … Continue reading

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Catching up with a Movie Classic

12 years late, but better late than never. Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth remains a basic must-see for anyone who wants to know more about what is and has been happening to the Earth via climate change. The movie is … Continue reading

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Gingerbread Man of Xmas Past

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Christmas Card from Grandson

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Winter Solstice 2018

If you can’t make it to Stonehenge today, remember to toss a Yule log on the fire to ensure new year’s light.

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The Two Main Causes of Human Stupidity and Suffering

1. Treating others as a means to an end, rather than as ends in themselves. 2. Not thinking at all. (U.S. labor data shows that 83% of Americans don’t spend any part of their days just thinking.– Bloomberg, July 5, … Continue reading

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Winter Weather Forecast

In deep November there is disbelief A loss of faith that winter, not yet here, Will go about its business and be brief. Instead the season generates a fear That winter, once in place will stay that way Forever–cold and … Continue reading

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It Does Not Get Much Better Than

Dylan Thomas’s A Child’s Christmas in Wales, experienced on Christmas eve or Christmas Day. Dylan Thomas Reading was the first album Thomas recorded for the two women who founded Caedmon Records; this was the label’s first release in 1952. The … Continue reading

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A Vermont Boy’s Christmas

He slid down the Sunday hill below his home in Vermont. In a distant church an organ proclaimed it was Christmas. The boy walked onward with his sled, blown by the wind. The pews were half-full as a choir entered … Continue reading

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Christmas Memory 1954

I was five-years-old. We were living a year with my father’s mother in a big old house on Thompson Drive, then in the outskirts of St. James with only Kirkfield Park west of us. My grandmother always had men rooming … Continue reading

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