bits and pieces tumbling toward the holiday

[lookingland]

the book is down to $39.54, LookingLand is restored to its original server, and all is well in the world.

i'm going to start redesigning the site over the next few weeks, but we're going to make a smoother transition this time around. no more giant blind leaps into terra incognito. thank you to everyone who crossed fingers and toes!

i haven't wrapped any of my presents and i just barely got the last of the cards out the door this morning. i'm not looking forward to driving to my sister's, but i am looking forward to the long weekend and especially grateful to be done with classes for a spell.

now if it would just snow!



i found this quote rather randomly this morning while looking for (of all things) Christmas pictures to post:

But we had with us, to keep and to care for,
more than five hundred bruised bodies of men,
men made in the image of God,
marred by the hand of man,
and must we say in the name of God?

And where is the reckoning for such things?

~ Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, 1865

what a wonderfully sobering consideration. i'm so using it in my novel. along with this one:

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

~ James Longstreet, reflecting on Grant, 1885

i have a lot of junk rolling around upstairs in my head about the things i am working on, etc. but no time or focus to articulate them here. maybe later, maybe later.

eight days 'til Christmas!

: D

Comments

[sparowe]

:) I'm glad to hear it--all the good stuff!

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

thank you ~ !

hope the spirit of the season is filling you up!

: D

[geckobird.livejournal.com]

Yes! Snow, snow snow snow snow!!

Aw, you just reminded me... I need to finish my Christmas cards... and physically send them... rather than just thinking about it. XD

I like the quotes. I'd say something more interesting, but my hungry tummy is calling for food.

Is it seriously that close to Christmas?

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

five days ~ !

eep!

eat something yummy!

: D