More Michael, More Mess
Just doing my part to straighten out the spin...
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Dec 31, 2003
Shopped, Dropped, Etc.
Fatal shopping trip assessment: “My heart was in the right place.”
Dec 30, 2003
New Year's Reading
I don’t have many New Year’s traditions, but this is one of my favorites. I read this poem to myself every December 31. I love its sense of hope.
RING OUT, WILD BELLS, by Tennyson
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
Dec 24, 2003
Favorite Christmas Passage #2
Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow.
Favorite Christmas Passage #1
From A Christmas Carol:
``Let me leave it alone, then,'' said Scrooge. ``Much good may it do you! Much good it has ever done you!''
Dec 22, 2003
Resolutions
Organized by month, because it means I only have to do one a month, and keeps the list down to 12.
Mojo Nixon Was Right
These people make my head hurt.
Dec 21, 2003
Four (Grocery) Shopping Days Left
One of this year's happy book finds was "Jennie June's American Cookery Book," copyright 1878. It's the only book I own that can teach me how to carve a prairie hen or make a cheap barn paint (six pounds of melted pitch, 1 pint of linseed oil and 1 pound of brick dust or yellow ochre).
Dec 19, 2003
The Varied Carols I Hear
I admit it—I have a few personal Christmas traditions that other people might find odd. I collect bird ornaments, I only eat peppermint ice cream when it’s in season (December through about February), and I actually like Christmas music.
