Thanks, Puddle, for the new thread. I love Robert Frost. I love his directness, his metaphors that are nature and human reality oriented.
Snow here all day, really cold. I'm wearing a nose mitten a friend made, makes me look like Minnie Mouse. But, it works.
I enjoy the posts. I'm thinking, Puddle, you might have been a film critic. And, Shirlee, recently a friend of my sister's on Facebook told me that I used to make her check out books in my Nancy Drew Library. I have no recollection of that, but I'm grinning, a librarian in the making, I guess.
Listener, it's a delight to read of your activities and occasions with the grands.
Always good to hear from you as well, Barb.
Well, off to write some Christmas cards and sit in front of the fire.
Pat...that sure does sound like a librarian in the making. I know I treasured every book I had when a child. Also only joined the Girl Scouts so my Mom would buy me the official guide book...rules and regulations! Chilly day here.
Some say the world will end in bluster. For goodness sakes. What if we had real Republicans and real Democrats and lots of Progressives. Instead we have tea partiers and people so boughten that they are afraid to say Boo. You can tell who hasn't sold out by who is still speaking out ... like John McCain and Bernie Sanders. Too little too late? I guess we'll know tomorrow. SIGH.
More Bernies...no more John McCains....he it was who thought Sarah Palin would make a fine VP.....lost any respect I had for him after that.
Just got a Christmas box from daughter Dana in Cincinnati. The mailman plopped it outside my apartment door. He often does that with packages because he knows I must truck them back up on top of my cart. When I went to retrieve it...could barely budge it over the door sill...then I saw it weighs 44.5 lbs.! Pretty sure it has some audio books...which I love.
Stay warm all. Too cold here for this time of year!
When I heard that today the Electoral College voted for DT, I thought, "What the heck good are they if they can't do what the Founders intended?!" Then, when I heard that the Russian Ambassador had been assassinated today, I shivered and thought of the Archduke Ferdinand. Then I heard that Russia is suggesting it was planned by the UN and Western interests. God be with us. May sanity come back into fashion soon.
I feel like all that is holy and wise and good is going underground again, as has happened so many times in history. Let's protect the Prayer Book and the icons and the deep down loving goodness. Let's be secret conduits for God/Love/Goodness.
Shirlee, I never would have voted for him, but he's been burned by the fools and has maybe learned a lesson or two. After all, DT said he wasn't a good soldier because he was captured. { !!! }
I'm still amazed and horrified at the election of Trump and Republicans. There's an interesting archived essay in January Harper's on the election of Andrew Jackson, another unlettered, ignorant president. People in opposition to him performed brilliantly, were motivated to excel and become statesmen that made a difference. Do you suppose?
Here's an old poem about the Solstice. The Longest Night
The sun stands still Light sliding into the mound The shaman approaches The longest night has ended
Spirits wait shifting shapes They saw them met them Traced markings on stones Walls trees the Otherworld
A glowing blue spiral deep In a cavern fires drumming Power herbs a fusion of life All life earth sun Sacred Time
We current ones mark our Calendars meet with friends Rituals lost spirits of ancestors Unknown just a long dark night
How to find the invisible amidst The palaver the tweets the Traffic the check-out lines The too close buildings to
Envision a Zeus a Yahweh Tagaloa Krishna Kuan Yin The noise pulls at us hurrying To get home for peace for sleep
Dawn as if peach blossoms Were tossed up over the mountain Floating into the blue and for a Few minutes everything is still
Winter retired a respite On the day of the Solstice Then diffusing spreading out The whole sky suffused in light
Thank you, Shirlee and Barb. I'm glad you like it.
Yes, I agree, the absence of critical thinking, of holding a representative of the people accountable floors me. Are we really content to be perceived as greedy, arrogant, liars, cheaters, prejudiced, entitled, bullying, self-aggrandizing? That's what Trump is, and Republicans and others who voted for him must be okay with this. I just don't understand.
While teaching overseas, I was proud that Americans were viewed as fair people, competent, willing to be helpful and to try to understand other cultures, respectful, generous, and kind. Now, I wonder.
She says "Tell the girls [that's you] I said Hi!" ♥ She would love to be here more but between no internet and her hands not working so well, it's difficult.
Maybe we could leave her notes, from day to day, for when she gets online again. Hopefully soon!
Jo sounds wonderful, though! Her new place is really nice, good architecture, friendly neighbours, and it's even on the first floor. We are going to get together in January and have a ramble! I'm looking forward to it!!!
This is going to be an ordeal with Trump. His selection of a right wing ambassador to Israel is one example. Gird our loins, I guess, and hopefully, we can muster the populace to oppose these cabinet picks.
Another old poem. I haven't written in a long time, so this just to get back into some sort of mode. Whatever we choose to do: crafts, organizing, cooking, reading, listening, viewing, I think we need the creativity in our lives. So here goes. Sometimes I'm Overwhelmed in What My Culture Calls Clutter
Thanks for your poem, Pat, which is a reminder for me that when Bush was bombing Baghdad (after we had protested until our feet nearly froze), we wallpapered the guest room. And when it got worse, we redid our kitchen (ourselves...including the plumbing) from scratch. I think during this administration we may have to build a whole house.
We are certainly called on to witness, participate, improve, protest, make our voices heard. This is something so extreme I don't think we've experienced it in our lifetimes.
Well, Puddle...I didn't want to miss anything! Love your poem, Pat. I find the older I get the more I want to talk about "old times" with my family...who are mostly receptive. Agree...it is a need/feeling of leaving something behind....hoping they recognize the good ...and learn from the bad! Tonight is Brenda Night! Love to all.
Very cold in and out last night--not good for sleeping. Hurty knees, calves, thighs. Glad to get up, even though it didn't hurt less, lol! -- did offer distraction.
Nice neighbor arrived with mail: all gifts except the delivered one, are now in house. So done on that front.
Now. COOKING. Turk going slow/low, so needs twenty hours. Think I'm going to boil bones after, make several quarts of turkey broth/soup/base. Since this may be the last turkey I ever do. . . . Miss the days I did goose for Christmas. Used to have to drive to Baltimore to get one fresh (stores didn't carry them fresh Or frozen). Goose is the perfect bird: ALL dark meat, lol!
"This is something so extreme I don't think we've experienced it in our lifetimes. "
I agree, Pat. Those who worked and fought during the World Wars sacrificed as we never have had to. I feel a certain fresh appreciation for what they endured. Of course, they had the advantage of believing their government was doing the noble thing. It may be that we're going to feel as the Germans did at the end of WWII.
Bill said today that what makes him most sad (and angry) about this coming mess is that DT and his cronies not only disrespect us, but their actions spit in the face of all those who worked and sacrificed before us, and potentially renders their contribution moot. It harms us and it also harms the world.
Happy Christmas Eve Day to all! Brenda and I are continuing the tradition of celebrating Christmas For at least three days...maybe four. She was here last night with dinner and a gift that was to be opened immediately. It was the CD of music from Triad Stage production....which we saw last year. Laurelyn Dossett....just gets better and better at composing and performing the musical settings to Triad's productions.
Brenda will be back this afternoon/ evening and again tomorrow for more festivities! My young'uns take Christmas seriously!
Merry Christmas to all of us. It is a gift all year to be able to share our thoughts and experiences. I hoped to copy a Gingerbread House to the blog, but only the words copied.
Has anyone ever made more than one gingerbread house? Has anyone managed the temptation to make any at all?
Getting ready to put turkey in oven. My company's coming on boxing day. Da boy and his dad. So lotsa leftovers/no cooking. Yay! Nice not to have to have the stuffing done till the turkey's almost done, lol!
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Thanks, Puddle, for the new thread. I love Robert Frost. I love his directness, his metaphors that are nature and human reality oriented.
Snow here all day, really cold. I'm wearing a nose mitten a friend made, makes me look like Minnie Mouse. But, it works.
I enjoy the posts. I'm thinking, Puddle, you might have been a film critic. And, Shirlee, recently a friend of my sister's on Facebook told me that I used to make her check out books in my Nancy Drew Library. I have no recollection of that, but I'm grinning, a librarian in the making, I guess.
Listener, it's a delight to read of your activities and occasions with the grands.
Always good to hear from you as well, Barb.
Well, off to write some Christmas cards and sit in front of the fire.
Pat...that sure does sound like a librarian in the making. I know I treasured every book
I had when a child. Also only joined the Girl Scouts so my Mom would buy me the
official guide book...rules and regulations! Chilly day here.
Love to all.
Ah geez. Wrote a post on the old thread i guess. XO
{{{ ♥ JO!!! ♥ }}}
I'll call soon!!!
:-D
Remember that spot on Bernie's cheek at the end of the campaign?
a href=http://www.mychamplainvalley.com/news/vermont-senator-bernie-sanders-had-procedure-to-remove-cancer-cells/620799690
I just did the same thing....updating...
Will try to get to this one tomorrow.
Sleep well...or read, listen,
or dream well!
Love to all .
Some say the world will end in bluster. For goodness sakes. What if we had real Republicans and real Democrats and lots of Progressives. Instead we have tea partiers and people so boughten that they are afraid to say Boo. You can tell who hasn't sold out by who is still speaking out ... like John McCain and Bernie Sanders. Too little too late? I guess we'll know tomorrow. SIGH.
McCain: Russian election-related hacks threaten to destroy democracy.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/18/politics/john-mccain-russia-hacking/index.html
More Bernies...no more John McCains....he it was who thought
Sarah Palin would make a fine VP.....lost any respect I had for him
after that.
Just got a Christmas box from daughter Dana in Cincinnati.
The mailman plopped it outside my apartment door. He often does
that with packages because he knows I must truck them back up
on top of my cart. When I went to retrieve it...could barely budge it
over the door sill...then I saw it weighs 44.5 lbs.! Pretty sure it has
some audio books...which I love.
Stay warm all. Too cold here for this time of year!
When I heard that today the Electoral College voted for DT, I thought, "What the heck good are they if they can't do what the Founders intended?!" Then, when I heard that the Russian Ambassador had been assassinated today, I shivered and thought of the Archduke Ferdinand. Then I heard that Russia is suggesting it was planned by the UN and Western interests. God be with us. May sanity come back into fashion soon.
I feel like all that is holy and wise and good is going underground again, as has happened so many times in history. Let's protect the Prayer Book and the icons and the deep down loving goodness. Let's be secret conduits for God/Love/Goodness.
Note: Find a copy of Rilla of Ingleside by Lucy Maud Montgomery. It is vital reading for this time we are in.
Shirlee, I never would have voted for him, but he's been burned by the fools and has maybe learned a lesson or two. After all, DT said he wasn't a good soldier because he was captured. { !!! }
Hurrah! I just found Jo's phone number! :-D
I will call tomorrow for sure!!
Dare I tell you where I found it? IN my iPhone phone list! LOL!!!!
President Obama has designated large areas of the Atlantic coast and Arctic as OFF-LIMITS to Off-shore Drilling!!
This is intended to be permanent and cannot easily be overturned by DT.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/20/506336885/obama-designates-atlantic-arctic-areas-off-limits-to-offshore-drilling
Plus! Bernie initially got an Electoral vote in Maine! Very cool speech made by David Bright. Read it here:
http://www.sunjournal.com/news/maine/2016/12/19/bernie-sanders-get-electoral-vote-maine/2047631
Watch David Bright's speech given, here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rziDCJC1wHE
Hi friends,
I'm still amazed and horrified at the election of Trump and Republicans. There's an interesting archived essay in January Harper's on the election of Andrew Jackson, another unlettered, ignorant president. People in opposition to him performed brilliantly, were motivated to excel and become statesmen that made a difference. Do you suppose?
Here's an old poem about the Solstice.
The Longest Night
The sun stands still
Light sliding into the mound
The shaman approaches
The longest night has ended
Spirits wait shifting shapes
They saw them met them
Traced markings on stones
Walls trees the Otherworld
A glowing blue spiral deep
In a cavern fires drumming
Power herbs a fusion of life
All life earth sun Sacred Time
We current ones mark our
Calendars meet with friends
Rituals lost spirits of ancestors
Unknown just a long dark night
How to find the invisible amidst
The palaver the tweets the
Traffic the check-out lines
The too close buildings to
Envision a Zeus a Yahweh
Tagaloa Krishna Kuan Yin
The noise pulls at us hurrying
To get home for peace for sleep
Dawn as if peach blossoms
Were tossed up over the mountain
Floating into the blue and for a
Few minutes everything is still
Winter retired a respite
On the day of the Solstice
Then diffusing spreading out
The whole sky suffused in light
Thanks, Pat...beautiful.....a reminder we ARE heading toward spring...whatever the state of the world.
Pat, I'm afraid that Trumps people are all as craven as he is. Certainly most of the Repubs in Congress.
Lovely poem.
At work so sneaking in a word or two.
much love to all
Thank you, Shirlee and Barb. I'm glad you like it.
Yes, I agree, the absence of critical thinking, of holding a representative of the people accountable floors me. Are we really content to be perceived as greedy, arrogant, liars, cheaters, prejudiced, entitled, bullying, self-aggrandizing? That's what Trump is, and Republicans and others who voted for him must be okay with this. I just don't understand.
While teaching overseas, I was proud that Americans were viewed as fair people, competent, willing to be helpful and to try to understand other cultures, respectful, generous, and kind. Now, I wonder.
I just spoke with Jo!! :-D
She says "Tell the girls [that's you] I said Hi!" ♥ She would love to be here more but between no internet and her hands not working so well, it's difficult.
Maybe we could leave her notes, from day to day, for when she gets online again. Hopefully soon!
Jo sounds wonderful, though! Her new place is really nice, good architecture, friendly neighbours, and it's even on the first floor. We are going to get together in January and have a ramble! I'm looking forward to it!!!
I appreciate the poem. "How to find the invisible"...yes. yes. And all the more poignant, given the eclipse.
Good Morning,
This is going to be an ordeal with Trump. His selection of a right wing ambassador to Israel is one example. Gird our loins, I guess, and hopefully, we can muster the populace to oppose these cabinet picks.
Another old poem. I haven't written in a long time, so this just to get back into some sort of mode. Whatever we choose to do: crafts, organizing, cooking, reading, listening, viewing, I think we need the creativity in our lives. So here goes.
Sometimes I'm Overwhelmed in
What My Culture Calls Clutter
For Joanne and Bert
I want to gather up my life
the piles of papers, stacks
of magazines and books,
the artifacts I have saved.
When I touch them memory
unveils itself like Alpenglow
on the mountain in the window
of my living room, and then my life is
suddenly whole, never ending
as I see the past, see those whom
I have loved and who loved me.
The thrill of living on an island
in Samoa, to be part of a village,
to know the children and the families,
new friends initiated in need and
generosity, all the places, people,
knowledge of my one small life,
to gather it into a book, a painting,
maybe a library and give it to you
unknown friend from the future
who may even understand what
I cannot and make something
new, enlightening, and beautiful.
"TRUMP CALLS FOR EXPANSION OF NUCLEAR CAPABILITY"
(Will nothing shock us anymore?)
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/311519-trump-calls-for-expansion-of-nuclear-capability
I clicked on the article and the advertisement on the same page read: Rest in Peace, with a $350,000 Life Insurance Police for $21/month. Talk about product placement!
Thanks for your poem, Pat, which is a reminder for me that when Bush was bombing Baghdad (after we had protested until our feet nearly froze), we wallpapered the guest room. And when it got worse, we redid our kitchen (ourselves...including the plumbing) from scratch. I think during this administration we may have to build a whole house.
Hi Listener,
We are certainly called on to witness, participate, improve, protest, make our voices heard. This is something so extreme I don't think we've experienced it in our lifetimes.
Too funny. Don't know how/why, but have been over on the old thread for a week or so. Cept for Shirlee, who was companioning me. I'll catch up, soon.
Well, Puddle...I didn't want to miss anything! Love your poem, Pat.
I find the older I get the more I want to talk about "old times" with my
family...who are mostly receptive. Agree...it is a need/feeling of leaving
something behind....hoping they recognize the good ...and learn from
the bad! Tonight is Brenda Night! Love to all.
Just went back to check the old thread...yep!
Very cold in and out last night--not good for sleeping. Hurty knees, calves, thighs. Glad to get up, even though it didn't hurt less, lol! -- did offer distraction.
Nice neighbor arrived with mail: all gifts except the delivered one, are now in house. So done on that front.
Now. COOKING. Turk going slow/low, so needs twenty hours. Think I'm going to boil bones after, make several quarts of turkey broth/soup/base. Since this may be the last turkey I ever do. . . . Miss the days I did goose for Christmas. Used to have to drive to Baltimore to get one fresh (stores didn't carry them fresh Or frozen). Goose is the perfect bird: ALL dark meat, lol!
"This is something so extreme I don't think we've experienced it in our lifetimes. "
I agree, Pat. Those who worked and fought during the World Wars sacrificed as we never have had to. I feel a certain fresh appreciation for what they endured. Of course, they had the advantage of believing their government was doing the noble thing. It may be that we're going to feel as the Germans did at the end of WWII.
Bill said today that what makes him most sad (and angry) about this coming mess is that DT and his cronies not only disrespect us, but their actions spit in the face of all those who worked and sacrificed before us, and potentially renders their contribution moot. It harms us and it also harms the world.
Isn't there yet some way to stop this madness?
Happy Christmas Eve Day to all! Brenda and I are continuing the tradition of celebrating Christmas
For at least three days...maybe four. She was here last night with dinner and a gift that was to be opened
immediately. It was the CD of music from Triad Stage production....which we saw last year. Laurelyn
Dossett....just gets better and better at composing and performing the musical settings to Triad's productions.
Brenda will be back this afternoon/ evening and again tomorrow for more festivities! My young'uns take
Christmas seriously!
Now for a nap before she arrives. :)
Love to all
Happy Christmas Eve to all.
Merry Christmas to my favorite Blog Family. Much love to you all.
Merry Christmas to all of us. It is a gift all year to be able to share our thoughts and experiences. I hoped to copy a Gingerbread House to the blog, but only the words copied.
Gingerbread House
Your gingerbread house appreciated, Pat!
Has anyone ever made more than one gingerbread house? Has anyone managed the temptation to make any at all?
Getting ready to put turkey in oven. My company's coming on boxing day. Da boy and his dad. So lotsa leftovers/no cooking. Yay! Nice not to have to have the stuffing done till the turkey's almost done, lol!
NEW THREAD!!!!
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