New Years is Coming...

....And that means it will be soon time for the bash at the Jordan's dwelling! I am still trying to determine which tunes to bring. No one will want my Bach or Mozart, so I will be bringing my favourite pop tunes that were formative in developing me. My old piano instructor would be laughing if he read that; but appreciating music is something quite apart from performing it. Songs by Cash, Jane's Addiction, the Minutemen and the Meat Puppets are all candidates to make my list....there are so many songs and so little time before the big bash. I have my ale and scotch ready to transport out to the boondocks.

Last night we went over to the Folster's for dinner with some regular friends in addition to some new folks, Rian and Naomi. It was a fun and lively time; Dave and Andrea put on such a fine spread, anyone who knows them, knows that that is regular for them. My thanks go out to Andrea and Dave for inviting Ramone and I over.

Let me take this moment to send out greetings and good cheer to all of my very few readers; no doubt you, the happy few that you are, will be able to spread my good cheer all about through your numerous friends and acquaintances!

Pictured is my new 1946 Leitz IIIc camera; the body is solid brass and functionally the camera has a jewel-like precision. When Ramone allows me to get a film scanner, I will post some of my successful snapshots.

Merry Christmas!

Christ is born! Glorify Him, the author of light, with joyful lights; lights that rejoice in His coming! Take delight over Christmastime, for Christ is the very fruit of God Who came to fulfill our hunger!

An excerpt from St. Ephraim third Hymn on the Nativity:>

Blessed be the Child who today delights Bethlehem.
Blessed be the Newborn who today made humanity young again.
Blessed be the Fruit who bowed himself down for our hunger.
Blessed be the Gracious One who suddenly enriched
all of our poverty and filled our need.
Blessed be He whose mercy inclined Him to heal our sickness…
His hands bound and fettered, His feet nailed and fastened,
by His own will He clothed Himself with a body for those who seized Him.
Blessed is He whom freedom crucified, when He permitted it.
Blessed is He whom also the wood bore, when He allowed it.
Blessed is He whom even the grave enclosed, when He set limits to Himself.
Blessed is He whose will brought Him
to the womb and to birth and to the bosom and to growth.
Blessed is He whose changes revived our humanity.
Blessed is He who engraved our soul and adorned and betrothed her to Himself.
Blessed is He who made our body a tabernacle for His hiddenness.