Monthly Archives: December 2023

Daughter’s Xmas card of her pet rabbit.

(one of my foundational early encounters with the sublime through literature) “Sublime” means elevated, inspiring awe, lofty, grand, exalted, transcendent, wondrous, marvellous. My interest in the sublime began with Shakespeare’s Macbeth in grade 11 and Hamlet in grade 12. Also … Continue reading →

Buy a poinsettia. They will often last into the spring BTW if you want to keep the plant. We put ours in the dinette so it greets us at breakfast, lunch, and supper–two of those sittings being darkish during December-January. … Continue reading →

Look no further. This one has stood the test of time–over 100 years. From Georgia, U.S.! The box actually contains 3 reasonable-sized cakes which we shared with our 2 kids.

Meyonohk School, the local neighborhood school, had students (with teachers) delivering Christmas cards they had made in school to local residents one school afternoon. Each of the kids apparently gets a chance to go to a house door, supervised by … Continue reading →

We are all held together by wires or Wi-Fi. The props that hold us up can only be glimpsed in a certain slant of light. We are really coming apart all the time, even as we laugh and profess a … Continue reading →

A wonderful time to go for a drive in the evening to look at homeowners’ lights.

(a favorite Christmas photo of “the boys” from several years back…