music clip of the day

what’s new

Los Lobos, “¿Dónde Está Santa Claus?”, “Llegó Navidad,” “Christmas and You,” “It’s Christmas Time in Texas,” live, Washington, D.C., 12/18/19

**********

lagniappe

reading table

Along my journey
through this temporal world, people
new-year-house-cleaning

—Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), translated from Japanese by Sam Hamill

*****

random sights

yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.