Amuse-bouche #6
The sixth in my incidental series of short bite-sized bits to take us from Solstice to Christmas and into the New Year.
Hello, fellow humans! Today there’s little to be done, we are snowed in, cozy inside.
Finally, someone gave a name to this time of year: Betwixtmas! Officially between worlds. Stuck in the calendar of odd-days. Not on holiday. Not exactly in the liminal, but certainly in the slack tide before the next wave.
This can be a time to let it all settle, look back, and see what the last year has brought to us - or should I say, see what the last year has brought us to? Or to paraphrase one of Marilyn Monroe’s boyfriends, “The question is not what the year could bring to us, but what we could bring to the year.” Frankly, it often felt there was little we could bring to the situations we have been coping with - global conditions of climate, politics, the virus mutating our lives through its expansions and trickster shifts in identity - “Now you see me, now you don’t, hahaha, fooled you again, I’m over here, at the supermarket!” All we could bring would be adaptation, awareness, and all sorts of other words that crop up as we carry on.
Yet, looking back I see many high points in the year that were pivotal, transformative, positive, and new. Don’t worry, I won’t list them here. That’s too. much work for a day like today. Instead, I’ll let them emerge in their new forms down along the way.
If you’re looking for something new to watch, try How To with John Wilson on HBO
Honorable Mention - the obituary for The American Painter Wayne Thiebaud, Who Transformed Cakes Into Symbols of Joy and Longing.
Watch your inbox for the next instalment of Holiday Amuse-bouches, coming from now until the New Year. I’ll be sending a few more tidbits of interest to your inbox, and they are mostly short and sweet.
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I enjoyed the article about Wayne Thiebaud. He was a favorite of mine.
Thank you Carol.