Midori Snyder's Blog, page 62

To The New Year That Is Almost Here.

Wishing everyone a happy, productive, and peaceful 2013. My resolutions will probably last as long as the evening. But I am confident my prayers for a better world and a year full of friends, family, art, and books will endure.

Christmas Hike: Hitchcock Trail and Jack Daniels

It is something of a Christmas tradition to go with good friends and family and hike Hitchcock Trail, which begins about 7,000 ft up Mt. Lemmon in the Santa Catalina Mountain range in Tucson. It is a gorgeous hike --...

Climbing Milagrosa Canyon

Always around Christmas with family showing up, we take it as an opportunity to explore new canyons in the mountains. This year a lot of time was spent in Milagrosa Canyon in the Santa Catalina mountains that border Tucson. It's...

Terri Windling on Bumblehill

Go ahead and subscribe to author, editor, and artist Terri Windling's lovely new tumblr account "Bumblehill" that features her wonderful illustrations and art. It's impossible to pick favorites from the winsome bunny girls, the bird child, the various madonnas and...

Puli Kali Trichur: The Tiger Dance

Came across this extraordinary Leopard/Tiger Dance called the "Pulikali Trichur" and is performed by men during Onam -- a 10 day harvest festival in Kerala, India. The name of the dance means "play of the tigers" and the dance re-enacts...

New Facebook Page!

I have finally put together an author page for myself. I hope you will come and join there as well as here.

Weeping For the Loss of So Many Children.

"A voice was heard in Ramah, sobbing and loud lamentation; Rachel weeping for her children, and she would not be consoled, since they were no more." Matthew 2: 14, 15-18

Bringing Light

St Lucy's Feast Day: I want to be in Sweden where I would wear a flaming crown of candles and eat gingerbread with butter. Bringing light to the dark center of winter. Art: Carl Larsson, St Lucia Morning.

Feast Day of the Virgin de Guadalupe

“Who is this that comes forth like the dawn, as beautiful as the moon, as resplendent as the sun?” (Sg 6,10)

"I Started Early -- Took My Dog:" Happy Birthday (A Day Late) to Emily Dickinson

Here is a wonderful animated film of Emily Dickinson's poem "I Started Early -- Took My Dog," to celebrate the poet's birthday, December 10, 1830. The film was created by Poetry Everywhere series from PBS and the Poetry Foundation and...