There’s more of a connection than you think. I always really resent the harassment that comes along with impending Windows updates. Obviously I’m not alone on this, but I can’t entirely understand it, either. I may not like it when my iPhone harasses me to update, but it doesn’t bother me nearly as much, doesn’tContinue reading “Finding Inner Peace Through Windows Updates”
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Making My Peace With January
Now that it’s just about over If you remember my fall dispatches, we are confronted with a curiosity in the sense that I described at modest length the experience of driving in a winter wonderland of snow. In, I believe, October. Since then, there was like a month and a half of zero snow –Continue reading “Making My Peace With January”
The Fourth Candle: Messiah and the Power of Music
For whatever reason, it’s not often these days that anybody tries to convert me to Christianity. I try not to take it personally. For any evangelists out there interested in taking advice from this heathen UU wizard, I’ll share a secret: there’s a guy out there who successfully converts me a few times every year.Continue reading “The Fourth Candle: Messiah and the Power of Music”
Together we Carry the Light
Last year, in a podcast episode, I read an email nearly in its entirety. Its author was to be my (then) three-year-old son’s new preschool teacher. Kellie knew her from childhood, the Waldorf community being the modest size that ti is, but this was my first impression. She was writing to introduce herself and alsoContinue reading “Together we Carry the Light”
Ambushed in a Kindergarten Classroom
We all know by now that little things have a funny way of getting under my skin, but even after a lifetime of this, I still am pretty terrible at anticipating which things they will be and when. I spent all fall in the grips of one of them, and this one really sneaked upContinue reading “Ambushed in a Kindergarten Classroom”
One More Thing About the Lights
On hometowns and non-nostalgia All my life, I’ve considered myself a highly nostalgic person, and certainly many others along the way have considered me so. Usually, they are being derisive about it. But I realized just recently that it isn’t actually true. I don’t actually do proper nostalgia at all. Nostalgia is the painful longing feltContinue reading “One More Thing About the Lights”
Get in the Glow
Even in my most cynical and misanthropic years, I could never bring myself to hate them Christmas lights. Just look at them!I acknowledge well that there are reasons, even if I don’t agree with them, to take shots at many of the other aspects of our varied traditions, but in all seriousness, why would decoratingContinue reading “Get in the Glow”
Being Anti-Anti-Christmas
I keep catching myself turning into an old man. To be more specific, I keep catching myself doing and (most often) thinking things that a short time ago I would have attributed only to the mindset of a geezer. It’s worse than just being conscious of it, too. Each time I catch myself, I discoverContinue reading “Being Anti-Anti-Christmas”
the tree that held up the sky is dead
How I lost a tree and gained a hole where a tree used to be When Papa Gino’s suddenly closed like a hundred locations a month or two ago – with no notice to employees, I should mention – I kept it together, but only barely. The company was planning to restructure and about halfContinue reading “the tree that held up the sky is dead”
The Panthers Have Not Been Real: Dispatches from Autumn
With only a few remaining days before Advent begins and a whole lot to talk about, I’ve scribbled some off-the-cuff dispatches from the autumn below. * I’ve seen a lot of deer and also several black panthers. The deer have been real, the panthers have not. * I remember this one moment one morning inContinue reading “The Panthers Have Not Been Real: Dispatches from Autumn”
Christopher J. DiLoreto 