Volume Up! How great is this! ‘Tis the Season.
Notes: 1) Lori, thank you for sharing! 2) Post title from lyrics and music by Redbone: Come and Get Your Love (1974) (Don’t miss their video on Soul Train)
Tag: Christmas
He’s coming…
Hundreds of racers dressed as Santa Claus race through the streets of Michendorf, near Berlin, as part of a Noel-themed 10K. (Michele Tantussi, Reuters, wsj.com December 9, 2018)
Walking Cross Town. With No Next.
It’s Wednesday. I take a late morning train to attend a late morning meeting. There are no meetings that follow. There is no Next, and Next and Next.
I sit in the train. The train clears. I’m immersed in the final chapter of the last book in Rachel Cusk‘s trilogy. I take the time to finish up, I grab my bag, and exit the train. There’s no rushing to the exits, the platform is empty. I walk alone in Kaminsky’s quiet: “What is silence? Something of the sky in us.”
Security at Grand Central is tight. Each entrance is heavily armed. Yet, I don’t flinch – the gunmetal black, semi-automatic weapon looks like a prop in a scene in Toy Story – I’m among the extras, commuters rushing to their Next, and tourists snapping photos.
Broadway teems with tourists mingling on sidewalks, trying to decide What’s Next. I smile, step around them, not interrupting their chat as they stand three abreast. Tis’ the season.
Full body sized neon letters hum and flash overhead: Mueller probe. Cohen. Trump. Russia. This nasty, viscous, mucus is non-stick, and glances off. You won’t touch me, not today.
My meeting ends. A luncheon thanking colleagues for exceptional work on a project with a highly successful outcome. I learn at lunch that today is the 86th Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting Ceremony. Aha! This accounts for the heavy security and unusually large crowds. Continue reading “Walking Cross Town. With No Next.”
I love the dawn stillness (on Thanksgiving Day)
Quiet has many moods. When our sons are home, their energy is palpable. Even when they’re upstairs sleeping I can sense them, can feel the house filling with their presence, expanding like a sail billowed with air. I love the dawn stillness of a house full of sleepers, love knowing that within these walls our entire family is contained and safe, reunited, our stable four-sided shape resurrected.
~ Katrina Kenison, Magical Journey: An Apprenticeship in Contentment
Notes: Photo: Mennyfox55
Share Your Gifts
New Apple holiday film tells a story of a girl who is bursting with ideas but is afraid to share them. Music: Billie Eilish with come out and play