Ten Years of Christmas Photo A Day.

Ten years of iPhones. Ten years since we “all” became Jimmy Olsen, roaming the world with our cameras in our back pockets.  MANY of the photos that I have taken over the last 10 years for Christmas Photo a Day have been with my trusty iPhone; of course many have been with my dSLR or even, on occasion, with a FILM camera!! You long-timers will have begun receiving photos via EMAIL back in 2007; I think I formalized this in 2008… in any event, I am starting the tenth iteration of a small interlude of art—Christmases Past -a collection.

I hope you continue to enjoy this tradition for years to come. As always, comments are LOVED!

Good morning and WELCOME to Christmas Photo a Day, 2107! Originally, this was a little email experience for me to try to ENJOY the Christmas season! As a retail worker since 1989, the JOY of Christmas was sometimes subsumed by the chaos of the moment.

Over the years, I have begun to share this Photo a Day on my BLOG, on my INSTAGRAM, on my Facebook Page and of course on my WEBSITE. (feel free to follow me! and PLEASE share the love!)

This means that if you do follow me there, you may NOT need or want an email any longer. I get it. It’s ok if you unsubscribe to the email. (there’s a button below)

BUT. Please continue to enjoy the photos! I post them not ONLY for my own enjoyment, but also to hear the wonderful comments!

And have yourself a merry little Christmas time!

This in NO WAY exonerates him…

.. nor does it indicate that I am OK with his behavior, or feel that women were lying or making too big a deal of things, but for chrissakes, can we find something else to lose our minds over? Regarding Weinstein– I promise to never shut up if he ever attempts to run for elected office after the behavior that has come out. ( how many people couldn’t have pointed Weinstein out in a line up back on Monday night?)

It is morally reprehensible and unethical if not illegal.  His political persuasion has not a whit to do with anything.

WHERE is the outrage for the way Donald behaved? Why suddenly is there to be a moral equivalence between the Accidental Resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenues’ past behaviors (for which he had doubled down, as is his wont, that it wasn’t so bad, that other people have done worse) and what at this moment is a personnel issue at a private company? (and Weinstein’s “apology” has the stink of I got caught but is slightly more graceful than Donald could ever hope to be)

Why are the president’s surrogates all out there talking about how terrible Weinstein is, when their boss is equally as bad? What high horse do they get to ride in on, to intimate that all Democrats are complicit for having accepted monetary donations from a man who is just now publicly accused of sexual harassment? As if A has anything to do with B. As if the majority of the GOP electorate and elected officials alike haven’t just shrugged and looked the other way, hoping to be able to get their piece of the pie before Donald is carted away (via the 25th, impeachment, or my personal favorite option, Mueller.)

Instead, couldn’t we save all of our outrage for the NRA, which continues to try to buy our government, lock, stock and barrel? (bad pun, I couldn’t resist)

Or, what about we take some of that bloviating frustration out on those in the GOP responsible for not refunding CHIP? Or for those in government who have decided that not only should your employer get to decide if you can have birth control, but also that the resulting pregnancy caused by lack of BC is a preexisting condition and therefore not covered, and also that there is no right to maternity leave, nor is it illegal to discriminate against you when the OBGYN tells you not to lift anything heavy while pregnant and so you lose your job (and there goes your health insurance)

Still have room to fit Weinstein into your irritation bubble? Well, there is the matter that 3.5 million American citizens are suffering from Maria down in Puerto Rico, and that their president is more interested in pointing out that their hurricane may cause us to mess up the budget (read: negatively impact the huge tax breaks he is planning for his cronies and himself, while trying to con you into thinking he will throw you more than a bone)

How about the fact that Donald ran on “her emails” and yet,  his kids are doing THE EXACT SAME THING?

Or, plain old health care, or clean water for Detroit, or Mother Russia… or… I could find you things to worry about and grouse about and lose your mind over all day long.

Weinstein doesn’t even hit the Top Ten.

Now We Are SIX.

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Laylabug and Granpa, on her SIXTH birthday

(Yes, it’s been some time since I have blogged. I guess I haven’t had anything nice to say, and that’s how I was raised 😉  )

TEN YEARS ON…. (The following is LONG. It is emotional and it is depressing. Since I started blogging, I have written something about the events of 9-11, and I have linked to a website where a very small part of the following is posted. This year, I have simply consolidated the entire scrapbook and writings that are in it, and created a new gallery on my photo website so all is viewable and archived.)

It turns out I can’t ReBlog something more than once. So, HERE is my September 11, 2011 blog post…  written SIX years and two days ago, on the eve of Laylabug’s birth… six years of absolute joy and wonder, while right outside that little bubble of love, life goes on in all it’s “LIFE-GOES-ON-NESS” …. good and bad, happy and sad things…16 years since America changed.