13: Making a List
1. This year’s interactive Christmas card HERE.
2. THIS is my current favorite Christmas song.
3. Floyd’s Heartsong singers, founded by my friend Rosemary, sing hymns and other songs (mostly spiritually comforting) to homebound and hospice people. Listen HERE.
4. “An economist says that essentially more for you is less for me, but the lover knows that more for you is more for me. If you love someone their happiness is your happiness, their pain is your pain. Your sense of self expands to include other beings. Love is the expansion of the self to include the other. That’s a different kind of revolution.” ~ Author of Sacred Economy on Occupy Wall Street
5. I feel bad for the workers in India who hand sewed the sequins on my new shirt, and I feel bad for myself because it took a couple of hours to cut them all off.
6. Large is the new medium: I’ve been complaining for years about how women’s bathrobes and nightgowns are usually only available in pastel colors and how men have a better selection of shoes and boots. Now I have a new complaint. Recently while shopping I’ve become aware of how hard it is to find clothing in size small and how the stores stock an overabundance of size large.
7. Information is to the internet what math is to a calculator.
8. Last year at Christmastime I posted a sign on my blog that said “I Brake for Christmas cookies and Narnia in 3D.”
9. We had some trouble keeping our candles lit at the solstice spiral last night, but the potluck was great and so was the music jam. Listen HERE.
10. And Mara read the essay she won a prize for on what love means, which will appear in the April issue of for Real Simple magazine (video clip HERE).
11. As a writer, I personally relate to Leonard Cohen’s comment during an interview with Terri Gross about his writing: “Someone like Cole Porter, his rhymes are, you know, much, much more elegant than mine. I have a very, you know, a very limited kind of expression, but I’ve done the best that I can with it and I’ve worked it as diligently as I can.”
12. What exactly is a doornail and why is it dead?
13. Frosty the Snowman Meets Johnny Depp HERE.
December 22nd, 2011 3:03 am
I like what was quoted in number four. As for number six, I tend to have the exact opposite problem with the sales racks: an over-abundance of small and medium, and not enough large. It also irritates me the way some designers skimp on fabric, not making tops or sleeves long enough.
December 22nd, 2011 3:44 am
I have large feet and take men’s sizes in running shoes etc. I’d love to have some pink shoes for a change. I always get stuck with brown or white or black.
December 22nd, 2011 3:50 am
A Very Merry Christmas to you & yours, my dear Coleen…..I know it will be delightful with your dear little Grandsons!!!
December 22nd, 2011 4:53 am
Hi. I tried to follow your link to see what your fave song is, but I got an error. Mine is the Boston Pops instrumental version of sleigh ride. I just love that song. It’s so happy! Merry Christmas!
December 22nd, 2011 7:58 am
Got an error on your favorite song! As for the sizes, it is usually the opposite for me – too many little sizes, not enough of the bigger ones. Here’s to hoping I continue losing weight and turn that around!
December 22nd, 2011 9:07 am
Lots of interesting thoughts. I can’t imagine Leonard Cohen thinking his poems are limited, but I can easily see that large is the new medium–the new normal.
I wish you the best this holiday season.
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December 22nd, 2011 9:16 am
I like that Christmas Card and Song! Although when I shop there seems to be an over abundance of smalls or 4’s. I can say that Men’s clothing is so simple…..us woman have so many sizes to choose from. I can wear a sm, med and large depending on who makes it??!!
December 22nd, 2011 10:00 am
Mara how speical remind me when it is out sandy
December 22nd, 2011 10:27 am
The song link worked when I posted last night but this morning I got an error too. But it looks like Sherry heard it. I redid it. It is not your typical Christmas song.
December 22nd, 2011 5:21 pm
Love the link for the interactive card, so pretty! I just went to the Pops last night and heard them do Sleigh Ride…it was a thrill!
December 22nd, 2011 11:04 pm
7. Or as Steve Jobs said, the computer is a bicycle for your brain.
12. good question.
merry Christmas!