My four-year-old son has become obsessed with me telling him DUNE stories for bedtime, which usually involves me summarizing the less violent parts of the novel for him. Tonight, I improvised.

You can read my Dune Christmas tale at Post (too many words for Mastodon): https://post.news/article/2JJInPWdHjYw0KRfdT9XhYaZsqT

#Christmas #Dune #FrankHerbert

Twentieth Advent Window.

On a clear Midwinter's Eve, the Newcomer returned to the little village, resting his wagon on the Green by the ash trees.

Old Fox went to see him & they ate karjalanpiirakat & drank hot sweet tea, the stars of the King’s Ellwand in the south as cold & white as ice.

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Johann Sebastian Mastodon was an ancestor of #JohnMastodon who composed many familiar pieces, including

🟣 the Baby Elephant Waltz

🟣 These Boosts Were Made for Walking

🟣 Tusk (an early version)

and

🟣 the Toot Suite

The Met Puts 650+ Japanese Illustrated Books Online: Marvel at Hokusai’s One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji and More

https://www.openculture.com/2020/02/the-met-puts-650-japanese-illustrated-books-online.html

A Fen Skater christened the ice today as conditions proved perfect for the first time in years.

Skating over the frozen flooded fields and meadows has been a part of Fenland life for hundreds of years. Skating matches were held in towns and villages all over the Fens where local men would compete for prizes of money, clothing or food during severe winters when agricultural work was unavailable.

Eleventh Advent Window.

There was a wild coursing sea that morning, but Ermine's villa was filled with light & music. She was gilding walnuts for her tree. Each one she cracked open & folded in a fragment of one of her experimental poems, then glued it shut & covered it with fine gold leaf.

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