Winter Holidays 2022-2023

Winter kept us warm: First, a visit from Joe to see and celebrate the opening in Atlanta of Eternal Daughter, the film in which Joe stars with Tilda Swinton. A ghost story set in Wales, we had the extra ambiance of seeing the film upstairs at the Plaza Theater. 

Then, Darryl and I drove to Highlands, NC and Rabun Gap, Ga for the holidays. We stayed in a suite until the temperature fell to 2 below 0 and a pipe burst in our building. We were asked to move to a nice cottage with inadequate heat, but a delightful fireplace. The Dillards also granted us a free Christmas dinner for two. We did make an earlier visit to Highlands for brunch at the delicious Blue Bike Café. 

 

 At the Plaza for the Opening of Eternal Daughter.

Sloth on a bike.

Our Cottage.

Keeping warm at the Mexican Restaurant

Highlands, NC

How the Horses kept warm

 

 Cinema Santa and Joe

Mycenae

 

• The art of Mycenae reminds me of the visit my brother and I made to this wind-swept ruin half a century ago:

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•  "The rough city ascends over mounds, beginning at the Lions' Gate, a monolith of rock boulders worthy of Hercules or the Cyclops. Desolation is blown over this city by timeless winds that whip at the entrances to tombs, court ways, and the remains of grand palace rooms. I sense the spirits of kings watching the spectacle of terrain stretching toward Argos..."
• The Journal goes on to compare my experience of Mycenae with that of Henry Miller:
•  " Like Miller, I also entered the Treasury of Atreus-- Atreus who served his foe his children for dinner. Atreus received thereby the curse that brought horror to his own children. It was in this vast, domed room that Miller had a revelation; he grew aware of the value of a living spirit, of the sanctity of Nature and Humanity. It was the brutality and cruelty of the kings of Mycenae, that led him to discard materialism, the lust for power and possessions. It was the loss of wisdom and of the psyche that were the true curse upon Atreus and his descendants." 

Treasury of Atreus:

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ancient-art-civilizations/aegean-art1/mycenaean/v/treasury-of-atreus