0 72% 23% 0mph WNW bar 30.64 steep rise windchill -2 Yuletide New Year’s Day
Waning Crescent of the Cold Moon
A day almost gone in the New Year.
Kate and I now have a weekly Skype call with Jon and Jen and Ruth+. + being the one who comes. This is weird because it means we have a video phone call, our picture and voice shows up there and their picture and voice shows up here, all in real time…well, almost real time. Ruth says, “All Right.” “Ma.” (grandma) No. (snow) Bye. and so on. All delightful and all wonderful, as if done for the very first time ever in the history of child development. She’s a cutie, a blond Jewish Norwegian who lives in Colorado. The mixing pot stirs on.
Worked out, watched a Japanese movie and an Arctic Tale and the Descent. Three movies. A holiday. All pretty different. Samurai and Shogun, sword and kimono. A poignant tale of Arctic babies: a walrus and two polar bears affected by the warming of the Arctic Ocean. The Descent is a horror movie and a good one. It left me squirming and wincing. Made by the director of Dog Soldiers.
The morning I spent exegeting, then interpreting Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. What a tale. Important for our time, yet hundreds of years old.
Happy New Year.
