christmas eve
Dec. 24th, 2025 09:51 pmi hope it snows tonight. i’ve always loved a white xmas. i’m excited to celebrate tomorrow too.
merry christmas everyone. :)

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I really need to start looking on the positive side of things, I like to remember that two years ago I thought my life was over and I should just die already, but here I am, writing an entry for my secret blog.
I also plan on posting my precious cat on here just to show her so keep a lookout for that!
And tomorrow I'm going to combine my two favorite things, an uncrustable specifically peanut butter and jelly flavor and fruit loops and see how that goes.
There's so many other things I could think and talk about but for now I'll leave it here because I'm sleepy
goodnight! buenas noches! Sayonara!

I recorded one consumed medium every two and a half days (2.3), where the media are movies, documentaries, TV series, articles, short stories (thanks to Amazon's proliferation of single shorts under one cover), novellas, and novels. There does seem to be a growing pattern of shorter serials rather than large epics, so i've plowed through them when available. That's about 77% more entries than i recorded last year. I would have thought it was a greater fraction more, as i felt like i spent much of my time off in books this year, and the short stories would inflate counts. I guess the fatigue over the summer of 2024 had its impact.
I will admit that much of the reading is shaped by what is at my library's Overdrive instance and then by Kindle Unlimited. I've recorded 37 purchases.
I think Robert Jackson Bennett and Victoria Goddard are the new to me authors that most engaged me. I look forward to more Ana and Din mysteries.
We continue our tradition of Sunday night British mysteries, Monday night NCIS (including as of this year, NCIS: Origins - we have caught up with the network release), and Wednesday night science fiction. On other nights we frequently end up watching NCIS: New Orleans. Sunday mornings we frequently watch art documentaries or Landscape Artist of the Year. Today we will likely watch the final episode of the 2020 season 6.
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Maybe, i thought, after listening to Mary Oliver read "Wild Geese", maybe i should write psalms. So i opened Robert Alter's translation of "The Book of Psalms" and began reading the introduction in which he notes (in discussing how Hebrew poets new psalms to other gods and those lines can be found in their psalms)
a comparison with the proposed originals suggests rather that what the psalmists did was to adapt, briefly cite, or even polemically transform the polytheistic poems, which is, after all, what poets everywhere do with their predecessors—both building on them and emphatically making something new out of them.
It's not just poets, life, i think, builds on what came before -- ferns in the remains of their predecessors taking the remains of the star into their heart, birds with the song of their parents nesting in the same forest, i in my home haunted by the memory of my mother's housekeeping. Maybe the choice is how emphatically we focus on the newness: a gardener's choice different from a parent's, different from a poet's, different from a politician.
I think i ache for us all to be surrounded by humans making choices -- where perhaps the choices themselves are not emphatically new -- but what a new world if we all made compassionate thoughtful choices. We would still have pain and suffering, friction and loss, but so ever much less.