Thanks, TjZ, for the link to the great picture! Yuletide is here, the longest night just passed and the light beginning its journey of return. For us it’s meant more snow — it was falling long before I got up. Not that I have to be anywhere, but the more difficult it is to get…
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Podcast: The Flea
I forgot to mention the latest podcast, my reading of John Donne’s “The Flea” — always a fave. Donne was witty and inventive. He could write with heartfelt love — or lust — and in the end found a troubled sense of faith. Great stuff. Oh, look at the snow coming down — it’s not…
George
Sometimes you just need something like this: George singing to you with giant toys — what could be better? We’ve had freezing rain that has delayed my last final and (of course) made it conflict with other things so I won’t see all of my favorite class on the last day of the term. Oh…
Hey, It’s Snowing!
It’s snowing right now — big old flakes. I forget it’s November already. This semester has been crazier and more disorienting than usual. In our department meeting yesterday (a disorienting experience itself) I suddenly found myself unable to remember what month it was. At least I knew it was Monday. Let’s hope the snow doesn’t…
Lucia Day & Snow
Lucia day dawns with a heavy snowfall in upstate New York; when I saw “dawns” well, I wouldn’t know about that because I didn’t get up until 11. Longest I’ve slept in I don’t know how long. You’d think the candles alone would have woken me up, but we went out last night to see…
K. A. Laity 