Black eyed peas for the new year. To be used in Hoppin’ John, a southern US tradition.
List of Christmas movies watched… the final tally!
- 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
- Carol
- A Bad Moms Christmas
- Falling For Christmas
- Father Christmas Is Back
- A Boy Named Christmas
- A Castle For Christmas
Books Read: The Gift by Lewis Hyde 📚Just started reading this book as a follow up to Sacred Economics. It was quoted in SE a bunch of times. It’s about art, creativity and the gift economy. Looking forward to getting deeper into it.
Happiest of New Years everyone!
While waiting in the ferry lot…
From this morning’s walk…
Vivienne Westwood: Six Radical Quotes on Saving the World
What makes this set of “Radical Quotes” so interesting is that they come from the heart of the fashion industry and they make seem ripped directly from the book Sacred Economics, which I recently finished reading and highly recommend.
The Top 10 Films of 2022%20(according%20to%20Hyperallergic)
Hyperallergic is an outstanding source of news on the arts. This film list is a good one judging from the ones I have already seen.
Love, Music, Solitude, and How to Be More Alive: The Best of The Marginalian 2022
My hands down favorite source of inspiration and books to read. A lot of inspiration for the New Year in this selection.
From yesterday’s walk…
From the review of On Rape
The day I write this, accounts of rape emerge from war-torn Ukraine, the London metropolitan police and Iran where, horrifyingly, virgins “must” be raped – in the name of religion – before being executed for protesting in the streets.
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.
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.