Moonlight Serenade
Another year - 2024, for good or ill!
Not a white Christmas. Which was fine with me. Days not usually too cold - yet. I did get packages mailed to my not-so-little angels, also known as great grandsons, in time for their big day. Oh yes, bringing out decorations and putting up tree, hanging ornaments, is much more enjoyable than packing them away again! If left up I know I would sooner or later have to take them down. (Christmas wreath on the door all summer? I think not. Although there are activities like 'Christmas in July', etc.) So I've faced the music and got much of the putting away done. May even be done by New Year's Day. That will actually be a first, I think. That particular goal was never on my bucket list, as I recall. I used to kind of like leaving decorations up over New Year's Day. Not sure when that changed.
Speaking of bucket lists. Mine has always been rather informal. There are a few places I would still really, really like to see, though it's doubtful I will. But I have stood on foreign soil and seen places I could never have imagined I would, as I used a long-handled hoe to clear weeds from the new young plants (and pricked fingers gathering the fluffy white stuff cotton plants produced in the fall) in those red dirt Georgia cotton and corn fields. My first long trip away from rural Georgia was to New York City and a stay in a hotel with my class on our high school graduation trip, also my first experience riding a train. Many years later, one of my sisters and I arrived at JFK airport on a plane from Atlanta. From there we visited Rome in Italy; Jerusalem, Caesarea, Bethlehem in Israel. I regret that at Caesarea I was afraid to walk the short distance away from the tour group to the shore, remove my shoes, and wade in the Mediteranean Sea.
At the moment I'm listening to beautiful music produced, in my opinion, by the most versatile and lovely instrument, the human voice. Or rather many voices of a choir singing a cappella. Singing is an activity I never mastered. But I'm a very good listener! Another example of music I've always liked, in addition to old country songs, of course, is the Big Band sound. Glenn Miller would be a name in that genre most people would recognize. For a change-up, I'm posting a link to "Moonlight Serenade," done by his orchestra, instead of a favorite country singer.
Sylvia's dream writing space!
I really did used to dream of having a small building in my back yard dedicated to my writing. A place where I could sit and write. Watch the birds. Listen to the rain. Burn up the computer keys when that idea for the great American novel struck me like lightning. As you may have guessed, it didn't happen. But I have managed to produce a dozen or so books of varying lengths and subjects. Mostly mysteries, my favorite genre.
