We pause in reverence before the gift of self ( Read more... )

We went and saw lights! We didn't do the grand neighborhood sweep, but we did visit the crazy people in New Jersey. The crazy people in NJ are these two families right next door to each other who've been competing with their Christmas displays for ten years or more now -- they've both gone pretty far off the deep end by this point.

( We came, we saw, we photographed )

We've been groggy, true, but up to all kinds of fun things nonetheless. There was socializing at t_bard's, where our host played mad alchemist and whipped up fabulous eggnog sans dairy, tashadandelion was drop-dead gorgeous in holiday finery, and suba_al_hadid aided and abetted evil scheming for Halloween 2008 and 2009 (don't ask!). The Red Wonder fed us in lavish style in her new ( Read more... )

Blessed is the grace that crowns the sky with stars, and keeps the planets on their ways; the law that turns our night to day, and fills the eye with light; the love that keeps us whole, and day by day sustains us ( Read more... )