Thalassotherapy

Lambert's Cove Beach ~ Lia Potter

Thalassotherapy is the medical use of seawater as therapy. Since the days of the Roman Empire, people have known they feel better after a swim in salt water. My skin, eyes and sinuses are always clearer in the summer months. Come on summer.

An Analog Christmas

Lots of books under the Christmas tree this year.
Everyone has their nose in the right place, a good book.

Vineyard Haven ~ Bunch of Grapes

Secret Santa

Leave it to New Yorker magazine cartoonist Roz Chast to rethink Santa Claus in the age of Anthony Weiner.

The New Yorker ~ Roz Chast

Perfectly Imperfect

I scanned a headline online last week that Patti Smith forgot the lyrics to Bob Dylan's A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall during her live tribute at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremonies in Stockholm. Like a lot of things you read online, this particular headline missed the larger story of why Smith was there in the first place, how she came to choose and sing that particular song, and how her "flub" became artistry that moved me and others to tears.

Read her story, How Does It Feel, and then watch her sing.

Bloomberg Legitimizes Fake News

The editors at Bloomberg legitimize fake news with their Pessimist's Guide to 2017.

These "predictions" are headed with the Bloomberg News logo and Breaking News graphics, and are enabled for one-click tweeting and social media sharing.

What Bloomberg, no prediction about Michael Bloomberg's 2020 presidential run?

December 7

Etude

Closing the summer house this week. Always a melancholy ritual.

As  the days get shorter and nights colder, this sheet music promises the next summer and warmth to come.