12th Day of Christmas January 6 was not a special day until I became acquainted, as an adult, with the concept of Christmas being a multi-day event. It seemed like the perfect way to defeat the shopping-centered Black Friday kick-off to a consumerist season. Lights go up on 23rd, are turned on on the 24th […]
January Spirals
Bits of this post were originally published in January 2017. January makes me think of spirals. Why? January is traditionally, from the perspective of someone in the northern hemisphere, with an agricultural or pastoral perspective, a month when there is time for thinking, pondering, and philosophizing. In this way it is similar to what earlier […]
July Already Bitches!
I used to have an attitude. I still do. But I was suppressing it so as to appeal to the vanilla pablum of a broader audience. Screw that. My my niche-y bitchies love me and my old time friends who are gentile know that I am a bit outrageous at times. It has been so […]
Age and Memory
Common knowledge tells us that as we age that we likely will become forgetful. Some fortunate few people remain sharp as a tack as they near their hundredth birthday. These people are lucid and recall life events, places, and people. Types of Cognition and Memory But even so, they are using a type of cognitive […]
Time for Change
Personally. Politically. Culturally. Yep. All of it. unsplash-logoWalid Berrazeg With the New Year our reckoning of where we are in time resets, clicks up a notch, and we tend to go along with this arbitrary date assignment. 2019. 5779. 4717. These are current descriptors of the now, or what will soon will soon be now […]
Closure Is Not Comfort
I recently reached closure in a family matter. A legacy matter. I did not think I would ever achieve any peace when it came to matters of my mother’s stuff, the unfortunate legacy of disquiet that settled, like the heavy dust and grime of neglect over long stretches of time, on the things left unsettled […]