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It was a good year for photography. Wow, that was easy! Next post! OK, I’ll go into it a little more. I don’t want to do a long boring thing here, but I noticed a number of things as the year progressed that I take to mean I did, in fact, get better at photography. I “leveled up”, as the kids say. First, I started getting a lot more confident about just taking the picture. I used to hem and haw and wonder if it was the right shot or if I should or shouldn’t be taking that person’s pictureDown the rabbit hole….

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The weekly music feature returns! As does the theme we were exploring before December took over: music inspired by water, or written with a watery “theme”. And today we have two works, by two titans of classical music, neither one of which I had ever heard of before last week when I listened to them for the first time. I feature these two works because they share identical inspiration: a pair of poems by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The poems are called “Calm Sea” and “Prosperous Journey”, hence the two works Calm Sea and Prosperous Journey. The first is a cantata byDown the rabbit hole….

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First things first: I have decided to dust off the newsletter that I’ve been maintaining (sort-of) on Substack! But, for various reasons I’ve also decided to migrate my newsletter to the Ghost.io platform. If you previously subscribed to me on Substack, you should have already been migrated and received the new one; but if not, and if you want to subscribe–and why wouldn’t you!–you can go right here to check things out. Yes, this is part of my new focus on content creation in 2026. And now, let’s take a look at the Sunday Stealing questions for this week! 1. WhatDown the rabbit hole….

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It’s January 1, 2026. Wow. We made it. We got through 2025. And if I’m being honest, I’m not entirely sure that 2025 doesn’t slide in right above 2020 if we’re ranking recent years by how much of a shitshow they’ve been. 2025 was a shitshow, and there’s no mistaking it. Normally right about now I’m tucking into a lengthy year-end quiz-thing, but this time…I’m not going to do that. At least, not right now. I’m already working on it, but it probably won’t be appearing until Saturday, 10 January. Why so? Because 2025 was a year that needs some thinkingDown the rabbit hole….

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A pretty significant winter storm rolled through the northeast the other day, and Buffalo doesn’t tend to get hit too hard by these when they roll through; we’re generally on the outer fringes of whatever dumps snow and ice (or rain) on the northeast corridor. But we did get some ice out of the deal. Here’s the resulting ice as it coated the berries that were left behind on one of the trees in our backyard. Share This PostDown the rabbit hole….

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“Why are you sitting there resting, when we’re so near the end?”–Professor Henry Jones, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade And here we are, the last day before Christmas. I’m always sorry to see this season go. We always seem a bit too eager to put it behind us and get back to regular stuff like work and just…normal life stuff. Isn’t life better when we expend effort to make our worlds beautiful and take time to revel in what isn’t normal? Anyway, at this point, we reach “grab bag of items I like but didn’t get around to sharing inDown the rabbit hole….