Io Saturnalia! ✨

Temperature: https://arctic.noaa.gov/report-card/report-card-2025/

Eating: Still setting the menu for next week.

Drinking: Can we save that for Christmas? Just had a toast or two to celebrate our silver wedding anniversary, which sounds impossible, twenty-five years, I mean. Then again, get married in your twenties and you've been up to quite a lot by the time you hit fifty. 🥂

Listening: to...you have exactly one guess to get this right.

Watching: cheesy Christmas movies.

Reading: on the fun Romans used to have this time of year makes Christian Christmas celebrations look suspiciously like cultural appropriation. Add to that all the Persian and Jewish and Latin American influences and it's quite a colorful quilt you get.
 
Writing: digital holiday messages. Oh I still send out cards in the hopes of receiving them, but with the old guard taking leave...not that many cards and letters arriving these days. And that's a pity.

Thinking: it's life according to Dickinson, as I am out with lanterns, looking for myself, trying to decide which possible future course has legs. Good thing Santa Lucia stopped by on Saturday to light the way as we have not a single flake of snow. Oh well, there's light and colors aplenty indoors, so I think we'll manage.

Feeling: I need a little Christmas, right this very minute... And the syncretistic version is fine by me. Happy holidays, sweetie darlings, wherever you are. 💝