Photo A.M. Moscoso
Photo A.M. Moscoso
Photo A.M. Moscoso
Photo A.M. Moscoso
Shadows of Christmas Past
Month: December 2017
Let’s Go!
I once read that to keep your brain healthy you should learn one new thing everyday-.
One simple thing was to take a different route to someplace you go everyday- even if it was just a walk to your mailbox or around your block or to work.
The thing is, when I did that I saw some neat things and ended up in some interesting places- that’s where all of these pictures came from and how I heard this great song performed by BB King.
Life is full of little adventures and this is a small example of the things I came across on those travels.
Photo P. Knapp
This is me finding something fun to do.
Don’t judge me.
Ha ha ha.
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No matter where I go, if a funeral home doesn’t pop up, a cemetery does. It’s kind of like having a loyal dog or a hungry cat following you around all of the time.
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Art is everywhere if take a minute to look around you.
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I bought this at a curio shop, I don’t know why. It was very old and falling apart but I fell in love with it. It has character…
like this song which came on right after I got done watching a show on tv- the show ended and the tv flipped back onto the music channel and here it is.
Well, there’s one kind of favor I’ll ask of you
Well, there’s one kind of favor I’ll ask of you
There’s just one kind of favor I’ll ask of you
You can See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
And there’s two white horses following me
And there’s two white horses following me
I got two white horses following me
Waiting on my burying ground
Did you ever hear that coffin’ sound
Have you ever heard that coffin’ sound
Did you ever hear that coffin’ sound
Means another poor boy is under ground
Did you ever hear them church bells tone
Have you ever hear’d them church bells tone
Did you ever hear them church bells tone
Means another poor boy is dead and gone
Well, my heart stopped beating and my hands turned cold
And, my heart stopped beating and my hands turned cold
Well, my heart stopped beating and my hands turned cold
Now I believe what the bible told
There’s just one last favor I’ll ask of you
And there’s one last favor I’ll ask of you
There’s just one last favor I’ll ask of you
See that my grave is kept clean
Written by Furry Lewis • Copyright © Universal Music Publishing Group
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Inspired By Waiting for Godot Advent-ure Calander Day#5
In My Bones
I’m going to confess something here.
One would think that I would gorge myself on spooky movies and books and music during the month of October.
But I don’t- I do a lot of writing and I actually get into my photography more and I do decorate but for the most part I indulge in ghost stories in all the formats that the modern world offers and my writing even takes on a darker edge during the Christmas Season.
It may have something to do with the fact that when my family gets together we used to end up telling ghost stories, or weird stories about the human oddities we all seemed to run into during the Spring and Summer.
I heard my first stories about demonic possession at a Christmas Party when I was about 8 years old and when I got back to school after Christmas break I went straight to the school library and got my hands on every single book that featured ghosts or anything scary.
And after I ran through those I started to write my own.
So in my world the Christmas Season- joyful as it is- is full of shadows and basements and attics and graveyards covered with snow and it’s haunted by people who will never come home again.
See what I mean?
So here are three of my favorite Holiday Movies that do a lot to put me in the Christmas – spirit:
One of the best Ghost Stories ever- I think it’s a great movie to watch at Halloween to-
Dicken’s ” Scrooge ”
When I was a child and first saw that graveyard scene I nearly ran screaming for the safety of my room. It was the first and only time a movie ever terrified me. Needless to say, I was charmed by it.
So this movie has a place in my heart- and nightmares forever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97PwRDfHBlg
This is a recent favorite- it’s all about family and the train wreck that can happen when we fail to navigate our way through the world together. Plus it has Vampires and Werewolves so it’s awesome:
” What We Do In The Shadows.”
On Christmas Eve I like to read ” The Raven ” Sometimes I even try to recite it from memory- which amuses my cats and dog to no end because they are my audience.
If I could have done it like this I’d perform it at every single holiday function I go to. As it is, I just pull up the clip and watch the Simpsons telling of ” The Raven ”
It’s a classic.
It may be odd, it might not make a lot of sense and I’m sure there is something not quite normal about it, but when I watch my movies and I sit back and turn them over in my mind- and if it’s cold or dark or it’s snowing –
it feels like Christmas to me-I can feel it in my bones.
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Christmas Special (2017) Writing Prompt #4 – It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas
She Went There
If you are a Science Geek like me two events really made the news in a big way.
First of all Pluto was stripped of it’s Planet Title and a bunch of Scientists went on tour to teach us how to say the name of the planet ” Uranus ” correctly.
When I got hit with those two things at once, I spent my free time watching Cooking shows and ignored the rest of the news cycle. When it was over I went right back to pronouncing ” Uranus ” the way I always have.
And then me and my friend Cle for different reasons decided to post things about Uranus on each other’s facebook walls. Because who doesn’t want their friends and family to see you getting excited about Solar System Lollipops that include Uranus?
I ask you:
Who among us can ignore news like Massive Storms Erupting on Uranus and not laugh like a madwoman? I don’t have the maturity required to walk away from a cheap laugh. I admit it. Freely. I swim in toilet humor.I blame it on my massive sugar intake as a child. Oh. And my vaccines. I had ALL of them back in the day.
Atmospheric features on Uranus are revealed in images taken with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph and the Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
Today the question popped up at Our Random View where they are putting out daily Christmas Writing Prompts Christmas Special (2017) Writing Prompt #7 – Where to spend Christmas.
I couldn’t just walk away from that one. I tried to be serious. I tried to be creative and write about something with a feel good Holiday theme. But you know…I just couldn’t do it.
So.
If I could go anywhere for Christmas- oh yes- I’d go to Uranus.
Uranus is no longer a single lady- it has a ring on it.
Who wouldn’t want to explore the Solar system and then top off that grand adventure with a trip to Uranus for Christmas.
After all, this was big news back in October and it would have made a great headline on a travel brochure stuck on the side of a bus: We’ll all get a great view of Uranus tonight, and we won’t even need a telescope
So if you had a wish or a dream for an awesome holiday trip, my advice is- think big, think fun, think exciting…think
Uranus.
