January 15, 2022
Already asleep in my chair. Will turn it over to my friend Peter on this cold January night with an image of his that is one of my favorites. It really does look like this around here in the winter-- quite different than the summer, but just as pretty.
Sleep well, everyone.
[Photo, “Island Farm,” by Peter Ralston.]
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Notes:
You can find Peter and his wife Terri here: If you do go in, say hi. They’re lovely.
Let’s sing a song to dear, dear Heather
“ Can’t we two go walkin’ together out beyond the valley of trees?
Out where they is a hillside of heather curseyin’ gently in the breeze
That’s what I’d like to do, see the heather with you
The mist of May is in the gloamin’, and all the hills are holden’ still
So take my hand and lets go roaming through the heather on the hill
The morning dew is blinking yonder, there’s a lazy music in the rill
And all I want to do is wander through the heather on the hill
There may be other days as rich and rare
There may be other springs as full and fare
But they won’t be the same, they’ll come and go
For this I know;
That when the mist is in the gloamin’
And all the clouds are holdin’ still
If you’re not there I won’t go roaming through the heather on the hill
The heather on the hill.
(Brigadoon-1947)
[From the "Chalk One Up for Democracy" department
Pro-Trump ‘propaganda’ channel One America News Network to lose its biggest TV distributor
Satellite provider DirecTV said it would not renew its contract with OANN, potentially slashing the conspiracy-driven news outlet’s revenue by 90 per cent]
America's biggest satellite television provider has said it will cut the pro-Trump news channel One America News Network (OANN) from its service, dealing a severe blow to one of the former president's most stalwart cheerleaders.
DirecTV, a distributor with about 15 million subscribers that is 70 per cent owned by the US telecoms giant AT&T, announced on Friday that it would not renew its contract with OANN when the current one expires. following “a routine internal review”.
The decision could spell financial ruin for OANN, which gets about 90 per cent of its revenue from DirecTV according to court papers. One lawyer for OANN said in 2020 that Herring Networks "would go out of business tomorrow" if dropped by DirecTV.
More: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/directv-oann-drop-trump-conspiracy-b1993925.html