Musings

Getting clean…a fine idea for beginning the new year.

Traditional Southern New Year’s meal, also a fine idea.

As to the title, we were driving back to ATL from our tasty luncheon in the late afternoon. It turned out that we were driving into the sun, which on several stretches was directly in our eyes. This was additionally tricky because we were on a two-lane relatively rural road with no extra space between the pavement and the ditch. Tricky. The technical term is a sunshine slow-down.

A bit further along, we happened on lines of cars pulled off the road (just barely: narrow road, remember) and parked almost in the ditch, with people standing next to road or walking in the lanes to join clusters of loiterers. Very strange. We eased our way along, passing dozens more vehicles. Increasingly strange. Then, coming at us, driving slowly, we encountered a police car with flashing lights. And around another curve, we found a line of walking Buddhist monks, maybe a dozen, with a dog on a leash, following the police car.

I’m taking all this as good omens for our 2026.

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We had some fine times this year (on a personal level). Still, I’m very much looking forward to 2026.

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Here’s this morning’s dawn color. Exceptional.

Indoors, this is the persistant plant that has survived being left on its own for weeks at a time (outside where it could get rained on). As you can see, it’s sending up buds again.

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Once again I began the day enjoying the early-day sky.

We jaunted to a nearby neighborhood to partake of a small family brunch that ended with an offering of an assortment of kooooo-keys. Throughout we laughed and laughed.

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Happy boxing day eve eve, said the Guru. And I say it to you.

Also, watch out for a big guy swabbing your chimney with his red costume.

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I’m enjoying the sky just before the sun rises.

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The rising sun appears cheerful and upbeat for this shortest day. I’m anthropomorphizing again.

This evokes winter…with brown dried petals, and green lawn peeking through…so upbeat, despite the hibernal times.

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We’ve had lows below freezing recently, and we’re headed for highs in the 70s. Aside from the implications regarding climate change [huuuuge], I’m looking forward to it.

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I’m calling this autumn gold. I find it much more approachable than Silver Glow, um?, nope: Cloud Dancer. That’s a shade of white being promoted for 2026, and that’s a purely dopey name.

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We rear-view-mirrored our A2 friends, and spent the afternoon (plus) with friends in one of the Grosse Pointes. We laughed a LOT, great fun.

This isn’t supposed to be frozen, but the heater conked out and the replacement didn’t work, and the replacement’s replacement is still in transit—if I have it right. Instead of sipping, the birds were busy at the feeders, and the squirrels were patrolling beneath them because they could not access the protected feeders.

We even got a chance to see their daughter’s new (to her) house, in which she’s installed an audio mixdown setup (I’m told that’s what it is). Need an album recorded? In our circle, she’s the one to call/text.

We’re on the move this evening, and I type this as we motor along parallel with Lake Erie’s southern shore. Yup, we sleep tonight in Ohio.

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