Cheers to our Christmas hours

Oh wee Oh, Oh-Oh

 

Santa's little helpers

lucies in the sky with diamonds

 

Who's your Scrooge?

Alastair Sim!

Who?

i'm dreaming of a white christmas

Gerhard Richter

 

it’s only in my dreams…thanks climate change 

Candles for the darkest night of the year!

nuts

anise

pretzel 

smooch

 

Christmas visitation

 

Joyous

 

Jolly

 

Oh Christmas tree

the wonderous shock

 

How did it get there?
Why is it American?
Is that a sentient doll hiding in the covers?!

Idea comet

Government people are hired to do governance, not witch hunt.

White House BJ, Bengazi!, Hunter Biden laptop dad

I wonder if resources spent on stuff like this is a good use of taxpayers' money.
Should we give witch hunt a platform, though?
Do we like witch hunt?

Let's put it up for a vote.
Witch hunt or Witch hut?

Witch hut!

If government must do witch hunt, then it also MUST do governance.  
It's not an either/or.
For every witch hunt, there must be, at minimum, 50 acts of governance.
If witch hunt takes longer than 2 months, government officials conducting said witch hunt must cut their pay by 10% and 5% for every month afterward.

Do witch hunt shit on your own time.

Oh come all ye comet, joyful and triumphant

That's last year's Christmas comet, Leonard--he won't be back for another 6.5 years.
There is supposed to be a new Christmas comet coming on Christmas day!

You can either see it by looking towards the Leo constellation if you live in the Northern Hemisphere or not at all.
Quick research gave mixed results...

Yesterday, hours before dawn, I caught a glimpse of two shooting stars from the Geminid meteor shower!  
Just a lucky cosmic gift that I was up that early. ;)

Happiness and cheer

Thursdaytime is here

 

Oh, that we could always see
Such spirit through the year

Christmas shopping on the square

The word that would best describe this feeling
Would be haunted

I touch the clothes you left behind
That still retain your shape and lines
Still haunted

I trace the outline of your eyes
We're in the mirror hypnotized
I'm haunted

I find a solitary hair
Gone and still I reminisce
I'm haunted

Haunted by your soul
Haunted by your hair
Haunted by your clothes

Potsdamer Platz, Kirchner

And this is for the tears that won't dry

And this is for a bright blue sky
And this is for when you feel
Lucky

(Love and Rockets)

Christmas timeout

 

Just read some news...

What are your war goals?

War goals

War goals

Goooooaaaaal

War War War

War on Christmas

War on "Hamas"
War on "Ukraine"

War on Drugs

War on You

War on Me

War on Babies

War on Mamas
War on Papas
War on Sisters
War on Brothers

Must achieve war goals

Then will stop war

Made a list

Checked it twice

Gonna tick off each item

or die

Must be some person

to have some war goals

in your back pocket

licking the pencil

yes

used this weapon of destruction

greedily scratch off each element of ruin

yes

What is on a list of war goals?
Peace on earth?

red and green

 

This morning spell

bowl of mist

pastel dawn

smiling moon

squawk of goose

tiny pinecone

skitter of squirrel

Optional chant:

I am born from fog 3x

Healing tools

Healing tools include the deft use of suggestion, confession, memory, ritual and medicines. Healers find ways to provide consolation and hope, enabling their wounded charges to engage with meaningful work and find purpose in life.

-From a July 7, 2023, Bruce Bower, Science News book review of Fires in the Dark by Kay Redfield Jamison

And also Happy December! 

From a December 13, 2017, Melissa Chan, Time article:

A member of the Haiminger Krampusgruppe dressed as the Krampus creature, an Austrian winter solstice ritual, lets himself be touched by onlookers prior to the annual Krampus night in Tyrol on Dec. 1, 2013.

 

Sean Gallup—Getty Images