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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…

  (Castile, Spain) In the musty cloister corridors of Santo Domingo are the voices of the ages. Men without women. Men without guns. Men assured of purpose sublime. Heedless of time, untouched by war and the mad pursuit of money. … Continue reading →

All you can do at this point is to put a mirror in front of every elector, asking them Is this who you are? In favor of a corrupt Hitler/Putin dictator, naked racism; against the law; in favor of one … Continue reading →

I instantly think “I wonder if there will be a hospital bed for that person.”

Forever an individual, I am self-taught for the most part. I never learned to read notes on a song sheets. Likewise, I never learned to play notes on guitar from musical notation. However, I did learn to sing by singing … Continue reading →

Buildings, houses, roads, cars, computers, machines of all kinds, and human beings/bodies. The same principle applied to all. Temporary, ephemeral structures and beings. To me, this fact of fundamental change makes each Christmas more important, precious, and awesomely necessary. We … Continue reading →