Wednesday, January 5
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Continued existence, and I don't take that lightly. When it's cold like this, and for such a long stretch as this has been, I am grateful to have a warm home, food, water, and so on.
I did "first chores", and took the goats outside for a while to get some exercise. Their pens inside the garage are by necessity pretty small, but also they need to walk. I took the ponies and the goats for a walk around the yard, and that went well.
I chose not to go to the barn again, because at more or less -30C the risk you take driving isn't worth it, and I would freeze my butt off trying to work with River because the arena is unheated.
I came inside and read for a while.
I did some laundry and changed the sheets.
My sweetie's car started for him at work today. His little car is a diesel, so in this kind of cold it can be harder to start than a gas engine.
I listened to some "History on Fire", another Luminary podcast, and that was interesting. I listened to the history behind the siege of Jerusalem by the Assyrians, though I doubt that I absorbed much of it. Way too much information far too quickly. Main take home impression: Everyone was horrible to each other back then.
I also painted a nice winter scene that makes me happy.
Things I learned: That there was a lot of conflict between monotheistic religion and polytheistic religion, because monotheism was kind of absolute. No wiggle room.
That flaying people alive, impaling them, etc. were totally a thing with war. The Assyrians especially.
That this siege of Jerusalem, had it succeeded, might have wiped out monotheism, which would have led to a pretty different world, for better or worse.
That Jerusalem was likely saved because of outbreaks of hygiene-related disease among the Assyrian army as it sat outside the city.
Continued existence, and I don't take that lightly. When it's cold like this, and for such a long stretch as this has been, I am grateful to have a warm home, food, water, and so on.
I did "first chores", and took the goats outside for a while to get some exercise. Their pens inside the garage are by necessity pretty small, but also they need to walk. I took the ponies and the goats for a walk around the yard, and that went well.
I chose not to go to the barn again, because at more or less -30C the risk you take driving isn't worth it, and I would freeze my butt off trying to work with River because the arena is unheated.
I came inside and read for a while.
I did some laundry and changed the sheets.
My sweetie's car started for him at work today. His little car is a diesel, so in this kind of cold it can be harder to start than a gas engine.
I listened to some "History on Fire", another Luminary podcast, and that was interesting. I listened to the history behind the siege of Jerusalem by the Assyrians, though I doubt that I absorbed much of it. Way too much information far too quickly. Main take home impression: Everyone was horrible to each other back then.
I also painted a nice winter scene that makes me happy.
Things I learned: That there was a lot of conflict between monotheistic religion and polytheistic religion, because monotheism was kind of absolute. No wiggle room.
That flaying people alive, impaling them, etc. were totally a thing with war. The Assyrians especially.
That this siege of Jerusalem, had it succeeded, might have wiped out monotheism, which would have led to a pretty different world, for better or worse.
That Jerusalem was likely saved because of outbreaks of hygiene-related disease among the Assyrian army as it sat outside the city.
