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She's wrapped him in her coat so warm and she has brought him home
Rabbit, rabbit.
My poem "Last Letters" has been accepted by Through the Gate. It was written after reading this article about the failure of the War Office to deliver the last letters of World War I soldiers to their loved ones until generations after their deaths; that seemed unconscionable to me. It will be published now in the centenary year. I hope we can do better by their memories than we did by their dying.
There was ham for New Year's, sweetly glazed and pinned with cloves and pineapple. There was the rest of the metheglin. There was serious comfort food in the form of noodles and cheese. There was going to be chocolate fondue, but nobody had the room; those of us who wanted dessert settled for plum pudding and those who didn't settled for a nap.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
schreibergasse gave me a squid hat. I'll post photos as soon as I can get them off my mother's camera. We have agreed that "Squid Hat and Seal Feet" sounds like the beginning of my inevitable metamorphosis into a seagoing creature.
There is supposed to be a snowstorm tomorrow. I am wondering how much of it I can simply spend curled up in bed, resting. There hasn't been a lot of calm time lately. I have all these books.derspatchel is warm. I think it would be a good omen for the year.
[edit] Squid hat!
As promised. Photo by Rob. I like it.
My poem "Last Letters" has been accepted by Through the Gate. It was written after reading this article about the failure of the War Office to deliver the last letters of World War I soldiers to their loved ones until generations after their deaths; that seemed unconscionable to me. It will be published now in the centenary year. I hope we can do better by their memories than we did by their dying.
There was ham for New Year's, sweetly glazed and pinned with cloves and pineapple. There was the rest of the metheglin. There was serious comfort food in the form of noodles and cheese. There was going to be chocolate fondue, but nobody had the room; those of us who wanted dessert settled for plum pudding and those who didn't settled for a nap.
schreibergasse gave me a squid hat. I'll post photos as soon as I can get them off my mother's camera. We have agreed that "Squid Hat and Seal Feet" sounds like the beginning of my inevitable metamorphosis into a seagoing creature.There is supposed to be a snowstorm tomorrow. I am wondering how much of it I can simply spend curled up in bed, resting. There hasn't been a lot of calm time lately. I have all these books.
derspatchel is warm. I think it would be a good omen for the year.[edit] Squid hat!
As promised. Photo by Rob. I like it.
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And stay warm. :-)
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I will! I've got a squid hat!
Thank you.
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I really like it. Thank you!
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The squid hat sounds excellent.
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Thank you! It's a really good frame to the new year!
The squid hat sounds excellent.
It's big and floppy and mostly blue and it distinguishes between arms and tentacles. The big wide eyes are almost scientifically accurate. The felt softness really isn't.
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I'm glad the New Year's meal was comforting and filling and all such good things. I'm looking forward to the photographs of the squid hat, especially as I can't quite imagine such a thing and am therefore imagining its epicness instead.
I wish you and yours all manner of good omens for the year.
And I just realised you're listening to Anaïs Miller and Jefferson Hamer. I like that album, which I got from Jefferson at the last Murphy Beds concert, in part because I'd already got the Murphy Beds CD from Éamon when I saw him backing up Kathleen Conneely. Which is a far too tangled way of getting round to saying that I like Jefferson Hamer's work and am curious if you've also heard him in The Murphy Beds.
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Thank you! Likewise.
(Photo of squid hat now included.)
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It seems entirely appropriate for that poem to be coming out this year: excellent.
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Thank you.
I love the squid hat.
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Tam Lin is lucky to be wrapped in anyone's coat so warm, given the cold that's on its way, and the snow.
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It's warm, too. It thoughtfully covers the ears.
Tam Lin is lucky to be wrapped in anyone's coat so warm, given the cold that's on its way, and the snow.
Yes. Fishing someone out of Faerie during the solstice is not an enviable task.
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An old friend's daughter has just decided to major in cephalopods.
Happy New Year.
Nine
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Awesome. I kinda wish I had.
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You were able to identify this species in the wild as something I would like. Thank you.
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Happy New Year! More people should major in cephalopods.