Category Archives: Thoughts

Awareness of the outside world, holiday version. Whatever: The December Comfort Watches, Day Twenty Four: A Christmas Carol. Plus a bonus repost, Whatever: End of the Year PR Missives From Scrooge & Marley. [Kennings Contest] ~~~ A Get Well gift from a friend (waves hi!) to tide me over while I am out of theContinue reading “My Comfort Ribbon”

Awareness of the outside world, holiday version. The Guardian: A Christmas Carol is not cosy, and its angry message should still haunt us, Vinter 2021. ~~~ Stepping Stone FarmDecember 2025 “The peacock even appears among the animals in the stable in Christ’s nativity.” Tradition in Action: The Symbolism of the Peacock, Elaine Jordan. National GalleryContinue reading “The Traditional Christmas Peacock”

Awareness of the outside world, holiday version. FX’s A Christmas Carol is dark, but the weirdly realistic. Full disclosure. I had the film playing for a while on mute for holiday visuals and read the plot summary on Wiki. The first scene, which I did see, is a lad peeing on a headstone to dissolveContinue reading “Holiday Horsekeeping”

Art of the outside world. Curious Archive: Biblically Accurate Angels: Christianity’s Undisputed Horror Icons, Ashley, 24 February 2023. Hat tip to G of the North. ~~~ Ornaments from Snowflake Bentley. Celebrating the arrival of astronomical winter. Winter Solstice, 21 December 9:03 am CST, timeanddate: Season in Time. Ordered after I found out about the snowflakeContinue reading “Bentley Snowflakes, Glass Art”

Books of the outside world. Project Gutenberg: A CHRISTMAS CAROL IN PROSE BEING A Ghost Story of Christmas BY CHARLES DICKENS WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY JOHN LEECH. 🌲 🎵 🌲 Shea waved his hand at the lights and decorations on the walls of the restaurant, “It’s a Christmas, Carol.” Carole returned his smile, a bit thinly,Continue reading “What’s In A Name, Fiction Fragment”

Photography of the outside world. Fstoppers: 10 Crazy Photography Facts You Didn’t Know, Cooke 30 November 2025. Hat tip to G. ~~~ Morris AvenueBirmingham AL USANovember 2025Photo by Greg Walcott Onwards!Katherine

Bones of the outside world. Location, Il Convento dei Cappiccini: The Capuchin Crypt. Article with photos, The Collector: The Secrets of Rome’s Capuchin Crypt: Interview with Pietro Costantini, by Marranca, Apr 30, 2025. ~~~ Same fashion, more change. The solid brace from the last appointment. Now I need to take it off more often. [WristContinue reading “Changing Fashion and a Note on Word Usage, Wrist Update”