resolutions and books

So, not quite sure if it's silly or not, but I've made some New Year's resolutions. I'm going to keep them private for now, but I'll evaluate them at the end of the year and write about them then. I wasn't sure how many to do, so I decided tentatively on ten, but I'm mentally leaving the option open for there to be a round dozen. :-)

Also, last of the booklist for 2011. Didn't quite make the fifty, but I came close. I will, really, try to go back and write mini-reviews for the ones I just listed during the year.

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frosty!

It was cold this morning, and it is even colder tonight. Now, after Midwinter's Feast has come and gone, it is finally seeming a little like winter here. It was 31*F this morning when I got out of my car at work, and it is 26*F now, as I come in from a chilly walk to see the stars and the cold, and the nearby weather stations are reporting lower, just above 20.

So let me leave you with this: not for its religious content, but because it's EXACTLY what I think of when it's this cold and this dark and this wintry. A church, lit by candles, with young toffs and old codgers and mums with babies--with families, in other words--and music and a message of love.