More Christmas You tube...

Two different takes on feminism:




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXySpVFasFI&feature=related


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfVKWhhdum8&feature=related

Tree Down Day

Well, it is really shedding now. I guess it's time to say goodbye. Goodbye little sacrificial tree from somewhere far away! Your innocent green life  cut short, chopped off that we might receive a woodly ambassador in our home. Thank you little Christmas tree! I wish you could remain with us always and your glowing presence make  faerie light upon our plebian endeavors such as coffee making, (Click this link to see How-to!!!!)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0Vq4LitXeA&feature=related floor mopping and cat throw-up removal. Here's "Dad" doin' it, cortesy of You tube where else----! go Dad. Does he make housecalls, I wonder? And now here's Tom, recovering from by-pass surgery working away with infinite patience at Lego-central. He has set himself the task of re-organizing all the Legos we have somehow scrambled over the years. Chasing down that last knife, or red-haired mistachio-ed guy, or cobweb and spell book-- for multiplicitous sets, which formerly coagulated as themes: Ft. Legorado, pirate ship, rocket ship, Egyptian tomb, Harry Potter, King Arthur, Robin Hood and his Merry Men, etc. using spec sheets (wisely saved!) as roadmap... a fabulous occupation for someone who is not supposed to move around much and needs to be nevertheless accomplished anyway. Go Tom! Especially since we have about fifteen gallons of Legos!

HAPPY 2010!

OK- so it's a brand new year and the Christmas tree is still up at my house. I know- but I'll take it down this weekend... it's shedding needles but still so Wow! My favorite thing is the way lights and ornaments blur and reflect on shiny surfaces. I love the play of color on  random objects and so, I will drain the last drops of the festive assertion, the over-the-topness provided by this faux-transplanted tree, my pretend candy forest miracle-of-nature.

Don't you wish trees really looked like this? Lights twinkle and wink  unexpectedly ... everywhere you turn, really.
                                                                 I'll miss Christmas and do already.
As with every year that just-passed season feels like the dress rehearsal--

NOW I'm ready to have Christmas. This year was even more busy and fragmented and blurry-fast than usual, wasn't it?. I had my head down, focused on tasks and now it's over! Can I resolve to keep my elvish activities going this year so that next year I am ready? Only, many million-degree days will intervene between now and the next fast Fall, the waiting Winter. Hard to cheerfully fabricate north European folk traditions in 100% humidity...
Right now my resolve is strong because this FREEZING! weather is conducive to thoughts of sparkling ice and delicate traceries of frost and Alpine landscapes and hot chocolate imbibed while wearing  brightly defiant woolies! Here's to 2010! May Christmas live all the year.