Maybe it's just me, but I think it's kinda cool how the Gregorian and Julian calendars are lined up: no sooner does Catholic and Protestant Christmas end, than Orthodox[*] Christmas begins. What with the twelve days, Epiphany/Theophany, and Christmas Eve, twice each, that's a straight three and a half weeks of Christmas!

(Which, uh, gives me ( Read more... )

For the past couple of hours, I have had a song stuck in my head ( Read more... )

I woke up with "Riu Riu Chiu" looping through my brain [note: there seem to be some rests missing from the sheet music PDF I linked to], I'm feeling ( Read more... )

I just caught a Christmas-themed commercial on television, with ( Read more... )

From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2006-08-06: "It's only in our minds that we are separate from the rest of the world." -- Gay Luce, psychologist.
(submitted to the mailing list by Reddy, Michael)

And a blessed Ramadan to my Muslim friends!

"What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God." -- Eleanor Powell

And happy new year 5767 to my Jewish friends!

"In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better." -- Ellen DeGeneres ( thanks to blueeowyn)