It’s due to be minus five tonight. The moon’s full pound has reigned over the entrance of winter with all the windows in the valley peeking out their yellow hopes. Christmas is almost here: that festival of creation, mysterious to me in terms of its doctrinal roots, but wrapped in unnamed joy and magic all the same.
Awww. The world really does suck doesn’t it? I also have goats - 3 milking at the moment. The Goats and Freedom post is on the Towards Eudaemonia stack.
A feast fit for the season - I savoured every word! Thank you so much for your gifts and goats and crystalline midwinter thoughts - wishing you a merry Christmas and all the best for the coming year 🌹
“Birth is meaningless without Death”! That hit hard and true. Lovely, lovely story that will stick with me. Sending love and kisses to the Goats!! Merry Christmas!!!
I don't mind the God people, unless they try to sell me on their religions. It's fairly engrained in most organized religions to 'grow the flock', and it's this quality that I loathe. I have found nature to be quite enough, the miracles of plants and earth that predate humans by millenia.
It's interesting, isn't it, how spiritualities are realigning in the context of a mechanized world. I think all forms of religion bear the capacity for the abuse of power (as in Lucy's story - https://walkingwithgoats.substack.com/p/sheep-against-satan).
Fran and I read Revelations in bed last New Year's Day. There was one church that tried their absolute hardest to make it through to heaven but Jesus knocked them out of the running because one of them had a shirt stain.
You might like one of mine: On goats and freedom...
I couldn't find your piece on goats Peter, but Angst in the Aisle brought me to tears. Thank you for writing it.
https://open.substack.com/pub/towardseudaemonia/p/on-goats-and-freedom?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=340lm2
Awww. The world really does suck doesn’t it? I also have goats - 3 milking at the moment. The Goats and Freedom post is on the Towards Eudaemonia stack.
A feast fit for the season - I savoured every word! Thank you so much for your gifts and goats and crystalline midwinter thoughts - wishing you a merry Christmas and all the best for the coming year 🌹
Thank you so much Sheri! Merry Christmas!
:) xx
I'll give them a cuddle from you! Thanks so much!!
:)
“Birth is meaningless without Death”! That hit hard and true. Lovely, lovely story that will stick with me. Sending love and kisses to the Goats!! Merry Christmas!!!
Merry Christmas,
Sorry the answer was was "baby Jesus", not "Papa Stalin" (or am I "sorry"?)
;-(
Merry Christmas and well done on an epic year! It's been awesomely productive :)
Here's to 2024 for The Waltons 2.0, Woefie!
xxxxxx
You have surpassed yourself , what a wonderful piece of writing,what a world we live in, I'm so glad you're in it . Thank you.
Thank you so much...
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I don't mind the God people, unless they try to sell me on their religions. It's fairly engrained in most organized religions to 'grow the flock', and it's this quality that I loathe. I have found nature to be quite enough, the miracles of plants and earth that predate humans by millenia.
It's interesting, isn't it, how spiritualities are realigning in the context of a mechanized world. I think all forms of religion bear the capacity for the abuse of power (as in Lucy's story - https://walkingwithgoats.substack.com/p/sheep-against-satan).
Fran and I read Revelations in bed last New Year's Day. There was one church that tried their absolute hardest to make it through to heaven but Jesus knocked them out of the running because one of them had a shirt stain.
I really hate laundry.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours. I can’t think of a more lovely gift than your writing.
Thank you so much for all your support, itsjustananalogy! It means the world to me. Love to you and yours this Christmas.
:) xxxx
Thank you, Cynthia. Here's to a good year for all.