Rites and risks

The newest song of the week is up, an old favorite of mine by Damien Rice – it always reminds me of winter for some reason…

I went home this weekend and experienced the first snowfall of the new season. Winter is more beautiful than I remember it in my mind, but I still prefer Autumn. As per tradition, my family piled into a much-too-small car and persevered the trip down to Newton, Kansas, wherein reside the newest additions to our family. Since my grandpa remarried two years ago, we’ve acquired an entire line of relatives – it’s pretty exciting. One of my cousins Erin, has some sort of degree in flute and is working on her masters, so we have fun every year playing duets and hobnobbing about flutes and such.

Another expedition that the weekend expedited was economic. I purchased two new each of shirts and ties and one new camera (hence the picture of Bob the cat: he belongs to the Kansas relatives), spending a whole pile of money in the process!

As far as risks go, all I have concluded from the weekend of dis-connectivity is concisely explained in this music video: Regina Spektor – Fidelity
and this quote by Edward Gibbon: “All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.”