epiphany 2: its snowing - for what is snow if not an epiphany of sorts. It is 6.30 in the morning and the snow is as thick as I have seen it here in Brighton. Being on the south coast I can only remember it snowing around 3-4 times in twenty years. This picture here has been taken from my back door. The sun isn't up yet but see how the snowflakes catch any speck of light they can - magical really. And as we gear up for Christmas it can't get more traditionally seasonal than this, its a confection of that chocolate box picture that is the northern hemishpere's much wished for Christmas story, santa and snow and reindeer and all that goes with the yule log and the icing on the cake - but log fires and hot chocolate vie for space alongside bad news on the radio, we are still at war in Iraq and Afghanistan and I find that troublesome. Let us hope the 2010 will bring us peace. And then we begin to realise, it will be 2010 and we are entering the second decade of the millennium. Goodness its hard to believe, after all the anticipation. As a child I used to wonder what it would be like in the year 2000. What would I be like, what would any of us be like - Nancy Griffith sang a song about Neil Armstrong once and I tried to put it here (to no avail). I was thinking about Armstrong walking on the moon and what a moment that was last century - why did they never send a woman - how the world has changed. But I like this Bob Dylan song from her - love the sound of a Dobro - and her singing and that is Danny Thompson on bass:
epiphany 2: its snowing - for what is snow if not an epiphany of sorts. It is 6.30 in the morning and the snow is as thick as I have seen it here in Brighton. Being on the south coast I can only remember it snowing around 3-4 times in twenty years. This picture here has been taken from my back door. The sun isn't up yet but see how the snowflakes catch any speck of light they can - magical really. And as we gear up for Christmas it can't get more traditionally seasonal than this, its a confection of that chocolate box picture that is the northern hemishpere's much wished for Christmas story, santa and snow and reindeer and all that goes with the yule log and the icing on the cake - but log fires and hot chocolate vie for space alongside bad news on the radio, we are still at war in Iraq and Afghanistan and I find that troublesome. Let us hope the 2010 will bring us peace. And then we begin to realise, it will be 2010 and we are entering the second decade of the millennium. Goodness its hard to believe, after all the anticipation. As a child I used to wonder what it would be like in the year 2000. What would I be like, what would any of us be like - Nancy Griffith sang a song about Neil Armstrong once and I tried to put it here (to no avail). I was thinking about Armstrong walking on the moon and what a moment that was last century - why did they never send a woman - how the world has changed. But I like this Bob Dylan song from her - love the sound of a Dobro - and her singing and that is Danny Thompson on bass:
