New Year

My goodness I was in a bad state on that last post. Reader, it all worked out, though we were thrown a medical twist. We had a nice Chanukah and stayed home on Christmas day. I went for a walk in the morning, we picked up Chinese food for later and went to see A Complete Unknown, then came home to light candles and eat. We went to Brewster on Saturday. Though renting that house was a drama, it was huge and had lovely grounds that extended back to Blueberry Pond. I got to walk to our plague house and go out on Spruce Knoll trail to the beach. We had a good time at First Night in Chatham.

Now we return to Brookline, work and home. Preparing for Violet's move to Allston and her internship. Change is the only constant and 2025 is going to be a big one. The road home leads through Mordor.

Enough said about that. I saw Nickel Boys yesterday. DH didn't want to come but it was beautiful and I'm really glad I went. The POV work was breathtaking. I really appreciated the lack of graphic brutality. The sound design too. A major achievement.

I started a new journal and will try to write there more than here, as there are personal things I'd like to ponder. This started as a COVID journal. It's surging again, along with flu. Mask, wash your hands and stay home!

Here's to Health, Happiness and Hope in the new year.

Heard this lyric on WOMR and it seemed so right - B Dylan

Then take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind,
Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves,
The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach,
Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow.
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free,
Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands,
With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves,
Let me forget about today until tomorrow.