"We have art so that we shall not die of reality." -Friedrich Nietzsche

I won't say "H4ppy N3w Y34r" because FB annoyingly lumps together posts containing similar keywords--but may your 2012 be the best year yet!

My son Alexander turns 6 today...what an incredible journey, and joy, it has been getting from there to here...we are blessed beyond words!

To all who sent such kind, thoughtful gifts, & who have been so supportive to us in making a good life for our kids in this home: thank you!

Enjoying Festivuxmasanukkah with the Grover family and watching snowflakes fall, setting the scene for a picture-perfect White Christmas....

Listening to some amazing new songs that might be soundtrack candidates, with a particular emphasis on Creative Commons & other open content

The snow falling outside here in #Maine is beautiful, if anemic and bordering on sleet....it's too bad that accumulation will be negligible.

MadPad looks like a very cool and genuinely innovative (you know how loathe I am to use that word!) music app; planning to review it for XT.

Winter solstice is here; although the season is hell on my arthritic bones (particularly storms), I find myself dreaming of a white Xmas....

LOL... RT Bassem_Sabry: Apparently, North Korean Students were taught that Kim Jong Il didn't urinate or defecate. Now that's a superpower.