The Ciel Show for Tuesday, December 3, 2019

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Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Relatively quiet...

Sometimes it's good to keep the tv on, even if I'm not watching the show, don't care that much about it. It's a background of human noise. Sometimes, I love the quiet, glad to keep the tv and radio silenced. That's a good time for environmental recordings of water, of distant storm, of birds, of crickets and frogs... When the power goes out, that's a special kind of quiet. Only the battery-driven clocks tick onwards, and sounds from outside get in. It's the feeling that something is about to... Sign in to see full entry.

Hello, Orion! Goodbye, Turkey!

Orion was brilliant in the sky last night. After so many nights recently of cloud-filled skies, this made me smile: Orion is an old friend! When I was 6, and for a few years after, Orion hung in the winter sky outside my window, beside my bed, silent and steadfast. A few times when I was older, in the ages of freedom from parental clocks, I saw him in summer skies, having stayed up well past any proper bed time! Yesterday was the first day of Turkey Soup. I simmered half the turkey carcass... Sign in to see full entry.

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