Get a hold of a world in your hands

[sovay]

Rabbit, rabbit!

We had plans to watch the new year rung in by choco_frosh and others at Church of the Advent, but the weather was so bitter iron cold that we imitated the canceling of the polar bear plunge and stayed in with cats and the incendiary homemade rum balls which my brother's godparents send us every year (they are compounded of powdered sugar, walnuts, and the nearest thing to rocket fuel I have ever intentionally tasted in my life) and watched the original Ocean's 11 (1960) on TCM. There is a lot of candy-colored misogyny in the pre-heist portions of that movie, but I love the heist itself, Sammy Davis Jr. and Shirley MacLaine, I love Richard Conte's cat-footed Tony Bergdorf, "never the luck." We did not take FilmStruck's New Year's Eve suggestion of The Apartment (1960). This afternoon we headed out to my parents' for the traditional ham and fondue, followed by the traditional sacking out on couches. I am reading Chester Himes' Cotton Comes to Harlem (1965), a punchy, brutal, often darkly funny and head-spinning combination of hardboiled, caper, and blaxploitation fiction. There is just enough plum pudding left over from Christmas for me to have some for dessert.

I have been going around wishing people a kind year. So much of 2017 hurt in so many different ways, some of which I didn't see coming and some of which hurt just as much as I had feared. I do not think I can expect 2018 to be painless, but so far it has given me a bronze-blue winter sunset and a brilliant white supermoon in a branch-black sky, and I like both of these things.

If we have to fight, may we also help one another to heal.

Comments

[gwynnega]

Those rum balls sound like the very intense bourbon balls my cousin made this year.

A kind year is an excellent wish.

[radiantfracture]

I second the excellence of the kindness wish, and am waiting for the supermoon to arise.

[nineweaving]

I have been going around wishing people a kind year.

That's the best wish I've heard. And to you and yours.

Nine

[lilysea]

I have been going around wishing people a kind year.

This is lovely, thank you! ^_^

[rosefox]

I hope it's a kind year for you too.

[thisbluespirit]

I have been going around wishing people a kind year.

A very good wish! Let's hope so too, and that one we can all try to make it so. (I'm also a little amused, because the very end of the Twelfth Doctor's run has emphasised that point over and over - just be kind, do something kind, here at the end, on the battlefield, just be kind - so, you and the Doctor both! It must be the right wish to make. ;-) <3)

[asakiyume]

If we have to fight --instantly "This Is Why We Fight" goes through my head.

may we also help one another to heal --amen

[umadoshi]

If we have to fight, may we also help one another to heal.

So much yes to this.

[sovay]

Those rum balls sound like the very intense bourbon balls my cousin made this year.

I have never even thought of making bourbon balls. (I think my default dessert boozes are rum and brandy.) Are they also sugar-and-nut-based, or just highly flammable?

A kind year is an excellent wish.

I think everyone would benefit, but I would also personally enjoy it.

[sovay]

I second the excellence of the kindness wish, and am waiting for the supermoon to arise.

Thank you. I hope it was a beautiful supermoon where you were.

[sovay]

That's the best wish I've heard. And to you and yours.

Thank you.

[sovay]

This is lovely, thank you!

You're welcome!

[sovay]

I hope it's a kind year for you too.

Thank you.

[gwynnega]

They're sugar-and-nut-based. I suspect my cousin used a classic rum ball recipe and just substituted bourbon.

[sovay]

I'm also a little amused, because the very end of the Twelfth Doctor's run has emphasised that point over and over - just be kind, do something kind, here at the end, on the battlefield, just be kind - so, you and the Doctor both! It must be the right wish to make.

Zeitgeist!

And if Capaldi's Doctor thought it worth doing, then it is probably not impossible.

[sovay]

-instantly "This Is Why We Fight" goes through my head.

Yes!

[sovay]

So much yes to this.

Thank you.

[rinue]

A semi-resolution for me this year (though only if it sounds good to you) is that we really should get together for dinner or tea or something, although probably at a time of year when it is slightly less deadly outdoors.

[sovay]

A semi-resolution for me this year (though only if it sounds good to you) is that we really should get together for dinner or tea or something, although probably at a time of year when it is slightly less deadly outdoors.

I would enjoy that and we should definitely not freeze in the process.