Percussa resurgo….

We had a quiet. lovely Christmas here — with grandmother, the kids, the cats, the tree… I got both kids Time Enough for Love, seeing as how Stranger was such a hit with them last year. One kids in particular really could use some of Lazarus Long’s attitudes about self-reliance and self-preservation. And the other one just had a bitter lesson in the dangers of wishful thinking, another of Lazarus’s themes. Maybe they’ll take it onboard better from him than from Dad.

And thank you!

Happy birth of the Unconquered Sun to you, too! (Bein’ my own natal day, I do rather like that historical association!)

Merry Christmas and happy birthday to you.

When you get this project under way, ask me about giving a matching grant. I pledged $100 earlier. I’ll change that to an offer to match one-for-one the first $500 that other people donate.

Have a happy Natus Solis Invicti. [1]

Alan

1. December 25th was, in the mid- to late Roman Empire, the birthday of Sol Invictus, the Unconquered Sun — which, beaten down to its low point at the winter solstice, would begin to rise back up with the promise of a new spring and summer to come.