Takarazuka.
Figure skating.
Cross-stitching.
Photography.
Books, books, books.
A bit of this and that and a lot of the pretty.
Solitary packrat of the online variety.
Highly popular fantasy author Sir Terry Pratchett (1948-2015). Top photo by David Sandison. The following is a selection of quotes by him. If they were the mottoes in Christmas crackers, then we would be much keener to celebrate Christmas, as it is these phrases can be had all year round…
‘A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.’
‘The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.’
‘Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.’
‘I once absent-mindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant and, with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand Island Dressing and a bottle of chili sauce.’
‘Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.’
‘Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.’
‘People don’t alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it.’
‘Goodness is about what you do. Not what you pray to.’
For more of his practical wisdom and humour click here.
I am super into casually Jewish Jane Foster, who doesn’t keep kosher or know halacha or really do much traditioanlly Jewish outside of trying to honor her Holocaust-survivor grandparents’ memory, right up until the universe is so much bigger than she can comprehend (and she’s spent her whole life looking at the vast unknowable universe but right now is so much) and she shows up at the synagogue her parents still attend, awkward and uncomfortable, like “So I still don’t think I believe in God, but I dated one, and I apparently got snapped out of existence for five years, and now I can lift a magic hammer, and there’s a really hot lady king who for some reason wants to talk to me as much as I want to talk to her, and I have questions” and the rabbi is like “Questions are what we’re good at. Have a seat.”