Winter                                                   Winter Moon

Looked at my calendar and found basically nothing on it until after the first of the year. I like that.  In times past it would have caused some consternation, not now.  Now I see it as fertile time that I can use as I need.

Doesn’t match my feeling of the moment, however, which is, ho hum, let’s watch a movie. Which I just may do.  We got Hannah Arendt in the mail Thursday and I haven’t seen it yet.

The Winter Solstice has come and gone, followed by this period of little to do as everyone goes about holiday and end of year scurrying.  A while back I discovered the Maya considered the five days at the end of the year as bad days, days when it was best to do nothing since the omens weren’t auspicious.  I modified that and decided to use these last days for idiosyncratic projects, things I might not do otherwise.

(Edouard_Manet The_Reader)

One thing I have planned is additional organizing of all the image files I’ve collected over the years.  This will include pulling some files off an old hard-drive and getting them on this computer as well as creating new files where old ones have become too full.  An example would be the file, Art French.  In this file I have Bonnard, Chardin, Poussin, Manet and several others of note.  Early on I created Art Monet, Art Cezanne, Art Gauguin and Art Matisse and now I have enough files to create separate files for each of these other artists, too.

(William-Adolphe Bouguereau “Art and Literature” 1867.)

This work will include some primary pics posts featuring my favorite images.  I love looking at these images and this is a good excuse to dive into them.

There’s a sort of torpor that descends on me at this time of year, a sense that the old year has grown fainter and fainter with the vigor of the new year still to come.  I try to have fun with it.