Curations from the Human Jungle
[A few clips to put you in the holiday spirit, as selected by Patrick Morris (son of SB SM).] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WvwX18oMR4&list=PLFzxUjMsUwvqFbCq5SupLyC8agJzi8UWd&index=27 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX5Z-HpHH9g&list=PLFzxUjMsUwvqFbCq5SupLyC8agJzi8UWd&index=11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt0spqQtMKg&list=PLFzxUjMsUwvqFbCq5SupLyC8agJzi8UWd&index=8
What We Eat ... (Silverbelle Sandy) BUON NATALE PASTA You can count on this simple recipe for a festive bowl of red and green sweet peppers with pasta to dress up a holiday dinner table. In the cold, dark days of winter, the fragrance of frying peppers is a love letter from summers past. Here... Continue Reading →
Let's get this party started: [This was, originally, a Pandemic Project. We all spent the 2020 holiday season in isolation. I asked my immediate family members to contribute suggestions for movies, songs, recipes, memories, and even travel fantasies appropriate to the holidays, whatever your religious affliction. In the years since, the tradition has been maintained,... Continue Reading →
[I only became aware of Shameless, the TV series this year, because, aside from sports, public television, and movies available of Netflix or Amazon Prime, I don't have much bandwidth for traditional television. Plus, we don't subscribe to Showtime, because it costs extra, and I am cheap. There are exceptions, one being the The Bear,... Continue Reading →
[I always learn something from Tom Whitwell's annual list. This year I learned that no matter how proficient I become technology, the nerds out there in googleland will keep coming up with new ways to confuse, control, and frustrate me. What have you learned recently? SB SM] https://medium.com/@tomwhitwell/52-things-i-learned-in-2025-edeca7e3fdd8by Tom Whitwell This year I stopped being... Continue Reading →
[Don't you love real life mysteries like this? Think they will find Jimmy Hoffa in one of these holes? Thousands of Mysterious Holes Dot the Landscape in Peru. Archaeologists Say They May Finally Know Why New research suggests the Band of Holes functioned as a barter marketplace before becoming an accounting system for the Inca... Continue Reading →
[I'm getting soft in my dotage. The Great Escaper is a PBS movie based on the true story of an elderly World War II veteran who "escapes" from the assisted living facility that he shares with his wife (Glenda Jackson) in order to attend the 70th anniversary commemoration of the D-Day invasion of Normandy. It... Continue Reading →
[Silly Stuart of the Santa Fe Silverbacks sent these. Thank you! SB SM]
[Silverbacks and Silverbelles ... do you enjoy these nature postings that come to us via Northern Woodlands Magazine and the Wellborn Ecology Fund of New Hampshire? Where else are you going to encounter words like "strobili" (sounds like a pasta) and xylem (put that in your Scrabble and Wordle back pocket). Writer Susan Shea always... Continue Reading →
[The short answer is resoundingly "YES!" Nearly every depiction of evolution makes the fundamental error of beginning with the assumption that Man, and more specifically the white, European male, is the pinnacle of evolutionary achievement. Understandable, but narcissistically flawed. Don't blame Darwin. Blame the Bible and just about every other organized religion that places its... Continue Reading →