…SOLVED:
the cats are obsessed with our homemade crèche of felted wool figures.
Epiphany Mystery…
Tag: Pen&Ink
It’s January 1. Again.
Nikole Hannah-Jones
Nikole Hannah-Jones spoke to a full house at the Embassy of France on The 1619 Project. She was fascinating and eloquent despite an interviewer who had never heard of Ida B. Wells and who interrupted her repeatedly (which she handled imperturbably, with grace). I was sitting waaay in the back so my sketch is rather, well, sketchy.
Dog Lover
Book Club: The Mercies
Discussing the new novel by Kiran Millwood Hargrave, and grateful not to be living in 17th century Vardø (or 17th century anywhere).
DC Walks, Late Winter
Snow and daffodils: the turning of the year.
Godzilla and Birdie Go for a Walk
Groundhog Day/Candlemas
For this double celebration, a sketch, and the first verse of a poem by Lynn Ungar.
Celebrate this unlikely oracle,
this ball of fat and fur,
whom we so mysteriously endow
with the power to predict spring.
Let’s hear it for the improbable heroes who,
frightened at their own shadows,
nonetheless unwittingly work miracles.
Why shouldn’t we believe
this peculiar rodent holds power
over sun and seasons in his stubby paw?
Who says that God is all grandeur and glory?
—from “Groundhog Day” by Lynn Ungar
Birthday Trio
…and a celebration for Colette, Elijah Wood, and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (published on this day in 1813).
Everyday Joys: Candle (before/after)
I think my family enjoys the dinner candle more as a capricious beeswax waterfall.
