I did my best to keep the season of Advent this year as I've read that it should be kept--as a season of waiting, of prayer, of contemplation and preparing and expecting something to arrive. I wasn't strict about it, although I did make an Advent wreath, and we read from a book of meditations some evenings. But mostly I simply attempted to be aware ( Read more... )

"The Journey of the Magi"
by T.S. Eliot

( A cold coming we had of it... )

Merry Christmas to everyone!

I'll leave you with a quote my priest put in his sermon tonight:

Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father. He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, ( Read more... )

Halfway out of the dark.

It's possible that I will always think of Christmas that way, from now on.

Well done, Moffat & Co.

I realize this is a tad early for anyone not on the other side of the Atlantic, but I shall not be online again until sometime Christmas Day late... or possibly not until Monday night, depending on how things work out ( Read more... )

I had a pretty good Christmas, although getting up at 8 a.m. after staying up till 2:30 a.m. was kind of brutal. That's what I get for going to midnight Mass with a friend ( Read more... )

O holy Child of Bethlehem
Descend to us, we pray.
Cast out our sin and enter in
Be born in us today.
We hear the Christmas angels
Their great glad tidings tell.
O come to us, abide with us
Our Lord Emmanuel.

Merry Christmas, everyone!

I was up late watching To Live and Die in L.A. last night (review forthcoming at some point, except to say that young William Petersen is indeed teh sexy, wow), yet I managed to get up at 8 a.m. this morning! This is a good thing, as I have rather a lot to do today ( Read more... )

This is for my fellow Supernatural fans--some spoilers for current canon (although if you haven't seen 4.9 or 4.10 you can still read it, I think).

A Midnight Clear, by teand

For no one else would this fic be considered "slice of life" but for Sam and Dean, well, saving girls and seeing angels is all in a night's work.That sounds prosaic, but this fic ( Read more... )

Um. I just got a wish fulfilled by mistraltoes, as I checked my mailbox and found more episodes of Blake's 7 waiting there for me!

Thank you, thank you, Mistral! Seriously, my day just looked up. I'll be posting later this week or next week, as I find time to watch them.