Here’s another Christmas Day.
I hope you are having a good-as-possible holiday season, finding joy where you can, recognizing the blessings, feeling positive and optimistic that next year and next Christmas will be better.
Got snow? I hear there’s plenty over east! Nothing like a good snowball fight. The text that goes with this video is worth a read.
“So to watch this snowball fight, to see these people so alive, is a precious gift of perspective. We are them. They are us. We, too, will disappear. We will become abstractions to be puzzled over by future people. That certainty, in the flux of 2020, feels anchoring. We are not unique. We move in the historical flow. The current moment will melt away like snow crust on a mustache.”
It really helps us get through this unusual and lonesome Christmas season to have lights. We are lucky to live on a long cul-de-sac of friendly homes, each one decorated in some way for the holidays. It cheers us in these short dark days. Now..what shall we do for January?
If you love mysteries at all, or fancy a story you just can’t put down, let me recommend Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson.
I’m sure I found it from a list of recommended books, (since the lovely pleasures of browsing the library for unplanned surprises is, alas, gone for now), and I can see why. And within the narration by a mystery store bookseller are the names of mysteries he admires. At first I was going to skim through and make a list of them. Then, knowing the magic of the internet…perhaps someone has already done that? Yes, indeedy. Voila!
47 Mysteries mentioned in Eight Perfect Murders
I was inspired by an artist I follow at CeeCee Creations to make this Christmas card this year.
A few Christmas posts from past years…
2019
2018
2017
2016
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