Days Before Christmas
In which I share a few pages from my illustrated daily journal . . . pre-Christmas pages of gentle and indulgent preparation for the busy festive season.
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Sketching a Neapolitan Angel, There and Here
After a month of travel, every day somewhere to go, meals eaten out, scarcely a morning alone, I’ve plummeted into the relative stillness and isolation of a bout of Covid. Most symptoms gone now, the fatigue yet keeps me on the other side of all the December busy-ness. I’m trying to see that as a good thing, using the quiet time to sketch up some travel memories.
View PostBringing Hope To the New Year
Even in this peculiar post-Christmas mix of fatigue and contentment, moving through various stages of puttering and torpor — punctuated by bursts of somewhat focused activity — it’s impossible to ignore the problems a new year won’t sweep away. So can I really choose Hope as my Word of the Year for 2022 . . . (the first time I’ve ever tried launching a year with its own word)? That’s what I’m thinking about as we get ready to send 2021 on its way. I’d love to know what you think. . . .
View PostMerry Christmas!
As I write this, Paul is loading the tourtières in the car and we’ll head off momentarily to our daughter’s home where we’ll spend Christmas Eve with two (of three) daughters’ families (we’re hoping to…
View PostMerry Christmas! (and a gratuitous Fantasy Train Ride)
This will be the first Christmas Pater and I have ever spent on our own, just the two of us, as is likely the case for many of you as well. But a few years…
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