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Pasture Talk
Winter might be my second favorite season behind autumn. I love boots, turtlenecks, hats with pompoms on the top and buffalo plaid. I like bundling up to go out, and then unbundling to come back in. The house seems warmer, happier, more inviting for the contrast. And I like contrasts – in color, temperature, weather, etc. We cannot know much of anything without some comparative advantage. I wrote the silly article herein on winter baskets for every room, and pulling it together has prompted me to review my knot skills, make another batch of café Vienna and learn how to sharpen my own knives. Maybe pull out some knitting. One of the un-met goals in my life is to knit a sweater. I’ve had a few false starts and have knitted half a sweater more than once, but those two halves do not make a whole. One exciting accomplishment in recent weeks is the launching of Fins Life Magazine, a 64-page, all color, high quality, interesting, informative magazine with no ads. We have taken a page out of Jimmy Buffett’s playbook, in that when he started out, his music didn’t fit into any category. It wasn’t country, pop, folk, heavy metal, jazz or anything specific. It morphed into trop rock. Fins Life Magazine also does not fit into any normal publication niche. It’s in a class of its own, in print and digital format, by subscription only. It’s hammock reading at its finest. Gift subscriptions are available with a downloadable gift card ~ great gift for the beach bum commuter, tropical
island dreamer, Parrothead, wann-ab surfer, Jimmy Buffett fan, toes-in-thesand seeker. www.finslife.com Having a white Christmas was delightful. Having a new year stretching ahead of us is exciting. Help our small businesses whenever you can. Time is still the greatest gift. Walking remains the best exercise, and breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It’s never about what comes our way that can throw us off our game. It’s how we respond to stuff that comes our way. Whether the skies are gray or blue, the sun is on our side of the clouds or above them, stay young. Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from people and from the infinite, so long are you young. ~ “Youth” by George Ullman [18401924] Mr. Ullman was certainly ahead of his time on the “wireless station” concept. The not-wireless telegraph had just been invented in the 1830s with the hard-wired telephone coming along about 40 years later in this poet’s lifetime. Interesting. And spot-on from where I sit. Happy New Year!
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