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M E R R Y C H R I S T M A S O holy night the stars are brightly shining It is the night of the dear savior’s birth Long lay the world in sin and error pinning Till he appeared and the soul felt its worth A thrill of hope the weary soul rejoices For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn Fall on your knees Oh hear the angels voices O night divine O night when Christ was born O night divine, o night, o night divine Truly he taught us to love one another His law is love and his gospel is peace Chains shall he break for the slave is our brother And in his name all oppression cease Sweet hymns of joy in grateful chorus raise we Let all within us praise his holy name Christ is the lord Oh praise his name forever His pow’r and glory Ever more proclaim His pow’r and glory ever more proclaim D E C E M B E R 2 4 , 2 0 0 4 ABOVE And the sun shone. Though it was very cold. C H R I S T M A S E V E Christmas storm pictures As yet just all on one page -- graphics intensive. Gallery D E C E M B E R 2 3 , 2 0 0 4 ABOVE An ice covered world. Very beautiful, yet very brittle. Neighbors two houses up the street lost part of a gutter to a falling tree branch. Around the corner, a huge pine tree collapsed on one side -- an upper branch perhaps broke under the weight of the ice and took out all branches underneath it. Above, one of the pear trees in the back yard. A coming museum to visit -- Clyfford Still New museum to display enigmatic painter's work \| CNN By most accounts, the late Clyfford Still was a difficult customer -- a grumpy, self-imposed isolationist who hoarded his paintings, told collectors which works they would be buying and once took back one of his paintings from a patron by slashing it out of its frame. ... Still's technique can best be described as "color field" painting. Instead of representing some object or person, he splashed color on the canvas in jagged formations that could suggest one layer of color had been torn off to reveal another one underneath. Unlike Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, who used relatively thin paint, Still worked with impasto -- paint laid on so thickly that brush strokes are visible. Still didn't like to part with his paintings because he believed they needed to be seen together to be fully appreciated. ... ABOVE 1948c. Some 750 of Still's paintings have never been exhibited. A handful are at the Met. However, the largest collection -- 33 paintings -- is at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, where news of the Denver museum was welcomed. "There is a whole cache of work that I really think is going to wow us," said Douglas Dreishpoon, a curator at the gallery. "I think we are all a little relieved. Works of art have rights. They have lives." Unlike the paintings of contemporary Rothko, there is nothing comforting about Still's work. He flashed intense colors across the canvas almost like a matador waves a red cape in the face of a bull. It's risky to try to define his paintings in words; he deliberately didn't title most of his works and ended up removing the names from many that he did. David Anfam, a London-based art historian who has written extensively about Still, described Still's central theme as "the assertion and/or disintegration of living consciousness and dynamism in relation to its environment." "His technique is singular: rugged strokes of the palette knife, pigment that is either raspingly dry or dramatically glossy and a very incisive kind of draftmanship that stresses jagged contours, silhouettes and intensely contrasting colors," he said. Let's forget Poland some more, shall we Mr. President? At Expense of U.S., Nations Of Europe Are Drawing Closer \| Wall Street Journal via Brad DeLong "America failed its exam as a superpower," says Lech Walesa, the former Solidarity trade-union leader who became Poland's first post-Communist president. "They are a military and economic superpower but not morally or politically anymore. This is a tragedy for us." Mr. Walesa laments what he sees as America's squandered leadership because he thinks the EU isn't ready for prime time.... [C]an Europe offer itself and the wider world a vision to match, and perhaps one day even supplant, America's role as "leader of the free world"? In a campaign debate this fall, President Bush chided Sen. John Kerry for belittling the coalition in Iraq. "Well, you forgot Poland," said Mr. Bush. On a host of issues, however, many Poles, as well as some other allies, wonder if Mr. Bush has forgotten them. D E C E M B E R 2 2 , 2 0 0 4 Birthday dinner. Ham and asparagus. Snow storm. Settled across the region. From the office, I could see the snow falling from the high window, but not whether any accumulated. A lot stuck. D E C E M B E R 2 1 , 2 0 0 4 Blueberry pancakes. With fresh blueberries from Stephanie. Early deadline day. And on to next week. D E C E M B E R 2 0 , 2 0 0 4 ABOVE More from Akron. Laurie's appearance in Akron Life & Leisure magazine. 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