Baby It's Cold Outside

 

 

Solstice Celebration

This cardinal hit my window hard twice today as if to say "Pay Attention!" I watched him flutter a little on the snow covered ground, but when I checked back later he was quiet and I thought he might be dead. I went outside to move his little body to a better resting place and found him alive! I picked him up and wrapped him in a dish towel and kept him warm in my hands for a while then let him go.

The Solstice is the arrival of "cardinal" energy as the Sun moves to Capricorn, one of the three cardinal signs; progress, action. Cardinals as totems represent transforming, awakening, and are impossible to ignore.  Both their color and their call are bold and attention getting. This one certainly got mine.

The longest night.

Turn toward light.

Wolf Moon December 31, 2009 will burn bright.

Blue Moon.

Three of cups. Three of Wolves.  If the wolf is your guide this is just for you.

in the Orion Nebula,
From swirling gas, new stars are being born. 
(Timothy Steele)

Our Lady Peace (click for video)

 

All You Did Was Save My Life (vid)

Somewhere Out There (dl)

2009 in 9s

9 Songs

Kings of Leon "Use Somebody"

MGMT "Kids"

Portugal the Man "The Sun"

Metric "Help I'm Alive"

Saosin "Changin'"

The Cambiata "Changing Everything"

Rise Against "Savior"

The Thermals "Now We can See"

The Mars Volta "Since We've Been Wrong"

9 Albums

The Cambiata ~ self titled

Portugal The Man ~ The Satanic Satanist

Andrew Bird ~ Noble Beast

All the Real Girls ~ My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers

Dilly Dilly  ~ Of Art and Intention

Metric  ~ Fantasies

The Mars Volta ~ Octahedron

As Tall As Lions ~ You Can't Take it With You

Alice in Chains ~ Black Gives Way to Blue

9 Live Shows

Portugal the Man @ Bowery Ballroom NYC

Alice in Chains @ Paradise Rock Club Boston, Mass

MGMT, The Black Keys @ All Points West Fest Liberty Park, NJ

Metric, Band of Skulls @ Port City Music Hall Portland, Maine

Minus the Bear, As Tall as Lions @ Port City Music Hall Portland, Maine

The Cambiata's final show @The Station Portland, Maine

The Thermals @ Space Gallery Portland, Maine

Mission of Burma @ Space Gallery Portland, Maine 

The Mars Volta @ House of Blues Boston, Mass.

Buzz 9 for '10

Suckers (Brooklyn NY)

Band of Skulls (Southhampton, UK)

Dan Capaldi (Portland, Maine)

Lady Lamb the Beekeeper (Portland, Maine)

Blakroc (Ohio)

Stereo Flys (Boston, Mass/Portland, Maine)

Dead Man's Clothes(Portland, Maine)

The XX (South West London, UK)

Them Crooked Vultures (LA, California)

tonight's Wordle recap

how the computer sees these snaps

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