30.11.25 - 335 - Advent again

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Crafting time again... soon the gingerbread houses will come out



Singing in Holywood

Gilgamesh work in ML book

I have fifteen minutes to do this. Yesterday I watched the 4 episodes of Stranger Things and then the film Train Dreams. Both were the antithesis of each other. Train Dreams was beautiful, but as always, I find it impossible to have any empathy for settlers... especially those who clear the land. In the end the land will return to where it was... minus a few things - but by and large, the earth will just continue as it is. 

It's a truly gorgeous morning. I did some comparing yesterday for the school at the Holywood Lights Switch on and then I made an Advent Wreath. I felt like I was cheating on the Christian Community, but there you have it. 

The wreath was the nicest one which I have made, but there you have it... the more you do something, even if it just once a year, the better you get at it.

I'm now listening to Glen Greenwald. He is great really - always speaking up for the Palestinians and trying to get at the truth. Corporate media has a narrow range of views - I wonder why? We know why. 

Anyway, it is what it is these days. So this week... the rebellion against the billionaires is beginning to take traction. Someone in Billie Elish's voice or perhaps Eilish herself has written a song about the corruption of assholes like Musk. How can anyone look at these people and feel admiration for them as the rest of the world is being blown up and degraded for their greed? Greed like never before. But there are channels on YouTube which are growing that critique them. So good.

Something did happen yesterday when I watched Train Dreams though - right at the end of it when he takes the flight, the narrator says he finally felt connected to everything. The thing about me is that from the very youngest time, my very youngest memory, has always been about being connected to everything. Even when I pushed against the propaganda, which is why I did that - because it stopped me from connecting to everything else. Perhaps the only fear I ever had was that I would not be connected to the world in any real sense, even if it meant suffering with the world. I think it is something you are born with. My sons have no bother telling jokes which I find utterly objectionable. I do tell them it is objectionable. But I cannot imagine that they received an upbringing which resulted in this attitude. Perhaps they only joke about this.

I must get ready for Christian Community... time slips all the time... I think I am coming out of my do nothing phase.

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