{"id":19491,"date":"2014-12-23T12:05:59","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T20:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=19491"},"modified":"2014-12-23T12:05:59","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T20:05:59","slug":"thanx-and-linx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/23\/thanx-and-linx\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanx and Linx"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just a quick note to thank you all for hanging in there and keeping things going while I’ve been hermitting more and blogging less. The Commentariat is alive and well!<\/p>\n

Thanks also for making up (big time) for lost time on Amazon. Seems everybody was just doing their Christmas shopping at the last minute this year. I was worried when November flopped, but you’ve made December very good, indeed.<\/p>\n

I also owe somebody a thank you for a gift that arrived this morning, an Opinel No. 8<\/a> carbon-steel folding knife (Amazon link for it<\/a>). Has an impressively sharp blade and a little collar that twists to lock it open or closed. Very clever, very smooth to the hand (unlike many folders), very French. The ID of the “Santa” remains a mystery; the only note in the package thanked “me” for my order. But the universe of people who have my address and know I like knives is a small one.<\/p>\n

I might guess “Santa” more easily than I could ever guess last Fall’s “Rockefeller.”<\/a> (In fact, since Rockefeller went to such remarkable lengths not to be known, I’ve been trying to respect his or her wishes by not<\/i> trying to find out. But I remain astounded and grateful for R., the two Big Anons, Family A, D, PSM, and all the magnificent benefactors who’ve kept that nice, dry roof over my head during the wild pineapple express storms we’ve been having this season.)<\/p>\n

But … onward. <\/p>\n

Have a few happy links to start working up some good holiday cheer.<\/p>\n

Dog swims 1.5 miles<\/a> through a storm then figures out where to meet up with her lost person. Her human thought she had drowned.<\/p>\n

You know how the Oxford Dictionary people always announce the new “words of the year” long about December? Well, the Canadians at The Syrup Trap<\/i> are waaaay ahead of them. They’ve already announced the words of the year for 2015-2035<\/a>. \ud83d\ude42 (Tip o’ hat to Canadian MJR)<\/p>\n

While this next item may not exactly be in the good cheer category, it’s something that might give you comfort while you listen to that drearily bombastic uncle hold forth at Christmas dinner: boredom can be good for you<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And over at The Zelman Partisans<\/a> Y.B. ben Avraham and Sheila Stokes-Begley have been telling the Hannukah story in terms you don’t usually hear it. Check out their passionate, eloquent, and unfortunately cautionary tales. I would not call their stories happy, but they might be inspiring and are absolutely informative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just a quick note to thank you all for hanging in there and keeping things going while I’ve been hermitting more and blogging less. The Commentariat is alive and well! Thanks also for making up (big time) for lost time on Amazon. Seems everybody was just doing their Christmas shopping at the last minute this year. I was worried when November flopped, but you’ve made December very good, indeed. I also owe somebody a thank you for a gift that arrived this morning, an Opinel No. 8 carbon-steel folding knife (Amazon link for it). Has an impressively sharp blade and…<\/p>\n

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