To All, A Happy New Year! January 1, 2013
Posted by littlebangtheory in Love and Death.Tags: 2013, gratitude, Happy New Year!
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Well, 2012 is behind us.
What a tumultuous year!
For me, it was 365 days of juggling large bills with little income, layered onto a massive effort to turn my photography into an income stream. I can’t say that I succeeded at that, but I will say that I had fun trying, and learned a hell of a lot in the process.
Here’s to a most productive 2013 for all of you who read this, and for everyone else as well.
Love and Thanks to you all,
Ralph
The Cunning Runt.
A December Night. December 13, 2010
Posted by littlebangtheory in Love and Death.Tags: December, gratitude, hope, hopelessness, poverty, prayer, snow
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It’s snowing, or approximating snow as it does in these parts. The darkness outside the kitchen window is populated by fleeting visions of white, whirling, driven, then gone like thoughts, to be replaced by others doing different dances, now fast and frantic, then slow and lazy, drifting aimlessly earthward before catching a gust and getting gone.
The wind rises, pours past like a rushing river, a torrent of souls bound for who-knows-where, each fleck and flake bursting into existence and as suddenly vanishing, taking its moment in time with it, never to return.
Out beyond the kitchen window prayer flags beat themselves to shreds, giving up ghosts of frayed filaments for the old folks with no living friends, the working Joes with no jobs, the children whose futures are as dusty and hungry and pointless as their pasts.
Inside, the quavering whistle of the singing tea-pot reels me back from the beyond, back to the now of the night, the need for another log in the wood stove, the realization of just how blessed my penny-counting life is in a world where warmth in winter is a fabled commodity.
I’m grateful for the cold, and grateful that it’s out there.
Little Bang Theory 