Yesterday i was grateful for the Wynotte Sisters annual Christmas concert and all the friends i got to see, including D&S.

Today i am looking forward to a quiet evening at home with H and the fur family.

Yesterday i was grateful for my wife and our fur family. Nothing beats their love and companionship.

Today i am looking forward to the Whynot Sisters annual Christmas concert with our friends D&S.

from this morning’s walk…

Two matte silver Christmas ornaments. Closeup.

Early morning streetscape with shadow of a wrought iron fence in the foreground.

Closeup of victorian chandelier in a shop window. Bathed in blue light.

Toy soldier Christmas decorations on either side of an arched entry way. Large red bow secured at the top of the arch.

i think this is very important relative to the global realignment that is going on…

There exists an international subculture composed of people with Western-type higher education … that is indeed secularized beyond measure. This subculture is the principal ‘carrier’ of progressive, Enlightenment beliefs and values. While its members are relatively thin on the ground, they are very influential, as they control the institutions that provide the ‘official’ definitions of reality, notably the educational system, the media of mass communication, and the higher reaches of the legal system … (Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things)

beauty is not enough… we are in a moment where goodness and truth are threatened with being overwhelmed…

For it seems that beauty alone, though it addresses itself to the soul like little else, is not enough to sustain the soul, which requires also goodness and truth. (Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things)

relative to the Korean coup attempt and our future…

Fear is the primary force upholding structures of domination. It promotes the desire for separation, the desire not to be known. When we are taught that safety lies always with sameness, then difference, of any kind, will appear as a threat. When we choose to love we choose to move against fear—against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect—to find ourselves in the other. (bell hooks, All About Love)

December 3, 2024 - by Heather Cox Richardson

may we have similar courage if/when the time comes…

The South Korean people reacted immediately. Reporting from Seoul, John Yoon of the New York Times recounted the story of a real estate agent who watched President Yoon’s speech, got in his car, and drove for an hour to get to the National Assembly. The man told journalist Yoon, “I thought, ‘The end has come,’ so I came out. The president of a country has exerted his power by force, and its people have come out to protest that. We have to remove him from power from this point on. He’s in a position where he has to come down.”

Yesterday i was grateful for breakfast with KL and my yoga practice.

Today i am looking forward to restorative pilates with my wife and TB.

Tonight’s Christmas movie… Meet Me in St. Louis…

Yesterday i was grateful for my yoga practice.

Today i am looking forward to coffee with KL.

  • Lost at Christmas
  • Polar Express
  • Spirited

My first three Christmas movies!

Yesterday I was grateful for football with my brother and watching Polar Express with my wife.

Today i am looking forward to returning to my yoga practice…

The first signs of resistance in my city…

Construction fencing with the words Women, We, Unite, Society painted in white, other words painted in red. Quotes from historic Americans.

Words painted on construction fencing in an unpunctuated and unspaced sentence. “WOMEN DESERVE EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK”

Words painted on construction fencing. “THE ONLY THING WE HAVE TO FEAR IS FEAR ITSELF”

Construction fencing with words painted on it. “THE UNITED STATES IS NOT A NATION TO WHICH PEACE IS A NECESSITY”

Words painted on construction fencing. “THE HAPPINESS OF SOCIETY IS THE END OF GOVT”

from this morning’s walk…

Construction excavation with ladder in the excavation pit, leaning against a building, silhouette of house in the distance.

Entry door with glass light and illumination from within the building. Construction dust cloth illuminated by the light from the door.

Yellow shopping cart to the right of the front of Smokers Mecca storefront.

Odds and ends from yesterday…

Vertical landscape with street in foreground, tree, trash can and picnic table in middle ground, building and mountain in distance.

Mirror silver combat boots in shop window.

Plastic drink bottle sitting at edge of excavation trench. Scene illuminated by streetlights.

Christmas decorations from yesterday…

Giant inflatable snowman and disco mirror ball in shop window.

Plastic illuminated Santa at store entrance.

Pile of mirror ball ornaments in a shop window.

Yesterday i was grateful for sharing turkey with my cousin and her beautiful family.

Today i am looking forward to not having to drive anywhere!

This seems particularly relevant to the present moment in history…

Yesterday i was grateful for sharing turkey sandwiches and spending time with my brother and sister in law, nieces, nephew, niece significant others and Suede, a sweet and talkative lab mix.

Today i am looking forward to sharing the fourth of our four Thanksgivings with my cousin, her children and grandchildren.

From this morning…

Side of building with bay window in early morning. Building with high arch entry beyond.

Frost on a car…

Closeup of car hood and window with feathery frost pattern.

Plastic Santa…

Plastic Santa in a shop window.

… maybe i’m projecting, but he looks a little concerned…

Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. (Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian)

Religion takes seriously both the thisness of the individual, at one extreme of the scale, and the fate of the cosmos at the other, and shows them to be part of one whole. It is the absence of this integrative perspective that Dewey called the ‘deepest problem of modern life’. (Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things)