Musings

Met up with a buddy to walk in a nearby park. Turned out last night’s rain and the day’s overcast meant slippery steps. Oops, my friend went down, rather gracefully, slowly, right on her backside…ouch, too bad. Worse bad: her phone was in her back pocket. Super-oops.

It also turned out that neither of us looked closely on the map at the “park” we intended to walk in. All those nice looping paths are actually golf-cart trails…and behind a fence. So, we had a neighborhood sidewalk stroll instead. Small solace.

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We walked in Piedmont Park this afternoon. Overcast, relatively busy. I overheard lots of Spanish.

The title is hubby-humor.

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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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