Top 10 (Photobooks of 2022)

This may not be the definitive top 10 photobooks of 2022, but it is a terrific list. Also notable is that the majority of the books are by women.

Supreme Court Issues Dubious Ruling that Perpetuates Title 42 “Public Health” Expulsions of Migrants

A good in the weeds assessment of the dissenting judges opinion written by Judge Gorsuch.

Letters from an American, December 27, 2022

NY Republican Representative elect George Santos is a fraud. Most Republicans, are silent.

Personal integrity is the sacred foundation of community. We should accept nothing less from our public servants.

Hero of 2022: The James Webb Space Telescope

In the age of space billionaires and their cringe-ass fans, Jim reminds us what the stars have always been to human: an orientation, not a destination. Long before anyone thought we could go to space, up was the direction of wonder.

The Seamstress Who Solved the Ancient Mystery of the Argonaut, Pioneered the Aquarium, and Laid the Groundwork for the Study of Octopus Intelligence

A remarkable story about another pioneering woman who nevertheless persisted.

Unlike other naturalists, who had studied preserved specimens, Jeanne realized that she could only discover the true origin of the shell if she observed living creatures.

Books Read: The Overstory by Richard Powers 📚

Started reading this book a few days ago. I am about halfway through now and can hardly put it down. Amazing book that dovetails with Sacred Economics, which I am about to finish. So glad to have crossed paths with these books.

The biggest tear jerker saved for last.

The proverbial white Christmas!

More ocean…

Big seas…

Another lobster trap Christmas tree in front of the local bookstore…

List of Christmas movies watched so far…

  • Miracle on 34th Street
  • Christmas in Connecticut
  • The Bishops Wife
  • White Christmas
  • Elf
  • Die Hard
  • Planes, Trains and Automobiles
  • Home Alone
  • Christmas Chronicles
  • Love Actually
  • Klaus
  • Love Hard
  • The Lion in Winter
  • Scooged
  • Meet Me In St. Louis
  • The Shop Around the Corner
  • The Apartment

Fruit at the top of an Osage Orange tree. Big hard things. Serious knock on the head things when they fall.

I really hate having, for example, Amazon Prime Video, and having to rent the movies I really want to watch.

From my walk on the beach this morning…

Another rock, sand, water…

Sunrise…

Sand drawing by mother nature…

List of Christmas movies watched so far…

  • Miracle on 34th Street
  • Christmas in Connecticut
  • The Bishops Wife
  • White Christmas
  • Elf
  • Die Hard
  • Planes, Trains and Automobiles
  • Home Alone
  • Christmas Chronicles
  • Love Actually
  • Klaus
  • Love Hard
  • The Lion in Winter
  • Scooged
  • Meet Me In St. Louis

Sand, stone and sea…

From yesterday…

Wondering if the proposed cure is as bad as the disease…

From this morning…

Moon and clouds this morning…

Morning coffee at Odd Fellow Cafe… the weather outside is frightful. Winds 40 mph. No ⛴️ today! What luck that we booked passage yesterday on the only ferry not buffeted by wind and wave or outright canceled this week.