Ellen Moody
@anneelliot.bsky.social
Scholar, teacher, writer, mother, widow. Dream me & Clarycat: Gladly would she learn, and gladly teach.
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The Downton Christmas Suite, Pt. 1
YouTube video by The Budapest City Orchestra - Topic
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Still listening Downton Xmas Julian Overden a marvelous Irish tenor, Elizabeth McGovern pleasing light soprana, Jim Carter recites ‘Twas the night before Christmas …. Traditional carols/choral.
Watched 1st Xmas Holdovers: Giamatti & Payne, Randolph, Sessa. Don't miss
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Watched 1st Xmas Holdovers: Giamatti & Payne, Randolph, Sessa. Don't miss
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0DM...
For Christmas Eve and Christmas day
A 2nd album of beautiful traditional Chritmas songs -- Joan Baez from t1966 original vinyl;mine gone; thought to cf 1990s cd copy. Vinyl vastly superior sound feel; just exquisite.
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A 2nd album of beautiful traditional Chritmas songs -- Joan Baez from t1966 original vinyl;mine gone; thought to cf 1990s cd copy. Vinyl vastly superior sound feel; just exquisite.
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Joan Baez - Noel [Full Album/Vinyl]
YouTube video by Gary Larson
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December 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
For Christmas Eve and Christmas day
A 2nd album of beautiful traditional Chritmas songs -- Joan Baez from t1966 original vinyl;mine gone; thought to cf 1990s cd copy. Vinyl vastly superior sound feel; just exquisite.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uSJ...
A 2nd album of beautiful traditional Chritmas songs -- Joan Baez from t1966 original vinyl;mine gone; thought to cf 1990s cd copy. Vinyl vastly superior sound feel; just exquisite.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uSJ...
A Christmas movie to add to your pantheon of significant classics: revised blog essay from three years ago
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December 23, 2025 at 3:24 AM
A Christmas movie to add to your pantheon of significant classics: revised blog essay from three years ago
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Still listening Downton Xmas Julian Overden a marvelous Irish tenor, Elizabeth McGovern pleasing light soprana, Jim Carter recites ‘Twas the night before Christmas …. Traditional carols/choral.
Watched 1st Xmas Holdovers: Giamatti & Payne, Randolph, Sessa. Don't miss
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0DM...
Watched 1st Xmas Holdovers: Giamatti & Payne, Randolph, Sessa. Don't miss
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0DM...
The Downton Christmas Suite, Pt. 1
YouTube video by The Budapest City Orchestra - Topic
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Still listening Downton Xmas Julian Overden a marvelous Irish tenor, Elizabeth McGovern pleasing light soprana, Jim Carter recites ‘Twas the night before Christmas …. Traditional carols/choral.
Watched 1st Xmas Holdovers: Giamatti & Payne, Randolph, Sessa. Don't miss
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0DM...
Watched 1st Xmas Holdovers: Giamatti & Payne, Randolph, Sessa. Don't miss
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0DM...
December 21, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... " Madison it is "fundamentally important to make sure the government kept away from religion ..." Jefferson: "Legitimate [govt] reach[es] actions only, not [religious] opinions.” Congress must build “a wall of separation between Church & State.”
December 21, 2025
Speaking today at Turning Point USA’s annual “AmericaFest” conference, Vice President J.D.
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December 22, 2025 at 6:38 AM
December 21, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... " Madison it is "fundamentally important to make sure the government kept away from religion ..." Jefferson: "Legitimate [govt] reach[es] actions only, not [religious] opinions.” Congress must build “a wall of separation between Church & State.”
Ellen'sDaily
Solstice Poem
by Margaret Atwood
This is the solstice, the still point
of the sun, its cusp and midnight,
the year's threshold
and unlocking, where the past
lets go of and becomes the future;
the place of caught breath
Solstice Poem
by Margaret Atwood
This is the solstice, the still point
of the sun, its cusp and midnight,
the year's threshold
and unlocking, where the past
lets go of and becomes the future;
the place of caught breath
December 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Ellen'sDaily
Solstice Poem
by Margaret Atwood
This is the solstice, the still point
of the sun, its cusp and midnight,
the year's threshold
and unlocking, where the past
lets go of and becomes the future;
the place of caught breath
Solstice Poem
by Margaret Atwood
This is the solstice, the still point
of the sun, its cusp and midnight,
the year's threshold
and unlocking, where the past
lets go of and becomes the future;
the place of caught breath
December 20, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... Truth redacted -- Epstein files
December 20, 2025
On November 19, 2025, Congress passed H.R.
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December 21, 2025 at 9:27 AM
December 20, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... Truth redacted -- Epstein files
My MRI said the 3 ministrokes made no fundamental change, but the doctor admitted a crude test catching only major (visible things). She thinks for a while don't walk outside unless accompanied by someone. Inside I walk slowly because left leg lame, right knee arhritic, lower back left arthritic.
December 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
My MRI said the 3 ministrokes made no fundamental change, but the doctor admitted a crude test catching only major (visible things). She thinks for a while don't walk outside unless accompanied by someone. Inside I walk slowly because left leg lame, right knee arhritic, lower back left arthritic.
Daily News: How I'm coping
Changing a lifetime habits. I keep radios going, NPR or WAMA for company on 2, the others weta classical. I have 4 transistor radios scattered strategically through the house; an expensive radio & turntable set up now attached to speakers for the first time in arts.
Changing a lifetime habits. I keep radios going, NPR or WAMA for company on 2, the others weta classical. I have 4 transistor radios scattered strategically through the house; an expensive radio & turntable set up now attached to speakers for the first time in arts.
December 19, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Daily News: How I'm coping
Changing a lifetime habits. I keep radios going, NPR or WAMA for company on 2, the others weta classical. I have 4 transistor radios scattered strategically through the house; an expensive radio & turntable set up now attached to speakers for the first time in arts.
Changing a lifetime habits. I keep radios going, NPR or WAMA for company on 2, the others weta classical. I have 4 transistor radios scattered strategically through the house; an expensive radio & turntable set up now attached to speakers for the first time in arts.
A Few Good Memories open.substack.com/pub/steady/p... Rather's memories of the Reiners are beautiful
A Few Good Memories
Rob Reiner told me he knew Trump was trouble
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December 19, 2025 at 1:19 AM
A Few Good Memories open.substack.com/pub/steady/p... Rather's memories of the Reiners are beautiful
I tried to send Christmas card electronically to mylong-time good friend (was my student) Thao, her husband Jeff and their little boy, William. It was "blocked" as from Canada!
December 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I tried to send Christmas card electronically to mylong-time good friend (was my student) Thao, her husband Jeff and their little boy, William. It was "blocked" as from Canada!
Sent 40 electronic "A Christmas Rescue"s (Jacquie Lawson) to friends. Bought a Paddington Bear, He sits/stands instantly recognizable from dress, cardboard sign (like White's Swan w/Trumpet, Izzy's favorite book at age 7) Found Christmas songs Downton Abbey - to play on my CD player...
December 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Sent 40 electronic "A Christmas Rescue"s (Jacquie Lawson) to friends. Bought a Paddington Bear, He sits/stands instantly recognizable from dress, cardboard sign (like White's Swan w/Trumpet, Izzy's favorite book at age 7) Found Christmas songs Downton Abbey - to play on my CD player...
So you thought I would at long last give over commemorating the birthday. Not a bit of it
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December 17, 2025 at 1:20 AM
So you thought I would at long last give over commemorating the birthday. Not a bit of it
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Why Americans are going batsh*t over the cost of living open.substack.com/pub/robertre... Plus tariffs (=import taxes are paid by consumer)
Why Americans are going batsh*t over the cost of living
Today's added information
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December 16, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Why Americans are going batsh*t over the cost of living open.substack.com/pub/robertre... Plus tariffs (=import taxes are paid by consumer)
I must reread
It was great to have the opportunity to take part in this marvellous conversation on such fundamental issues! Plenty of food for thought! Thank you @georgemonbiot.bsky.social, @benjitoon.bsky.social and @bylinesnetwork.co.uk
In conversation with George Monbiot
EXCLUSIVE: Journalist and activist George Monbiot discusses UK politics, land ownership, food insecurity, democracy, the problem with the media, and more.
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December 12, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I must reread
Blog on putting up a Chrstmas tree first time since my stroke;not quite a different , almost so (garbled sentences, typos unconscious utterances gone) so, try again: istill about my friend's generosity & the centrality of the evergreen tree to me
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It doesn’t feel like Christmas without a Christmas tree; Richard III redux and the function of bookshops
Laura carried it in from the car, MaryLee stood it up; Izzy decorated this afternoon; I sat and happily watched “Our books, dear Book Browser, are a comfort, a presence, a diary of our lives.…
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December 12, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Blog on putting up a Chrstmas tree first time since my stroke;not quite a different , almost so (garbled sentences, typos unconscious utterances gone) so, try again: istill about my friend's generosity & the centrality of the evergreen tree to me
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How kind generous my friend MaryLee. With her car, & her driving, enabled to buy a lovely tree after all. Laura carried it, stood it up, Izzy retrieved ornaments and our soft and lit-up (Colin my penguin) friends. It's been three years
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It doesn’t feel like Christmas without a Christmas tree; the function of bookstores and Richard III redux
Laura carried it in from the car, MaryLee stood it up; Izzy decorated this afternoon; I sat and happily watched Dear friends and readers With age, we know we look vulnerable. WTF, let down your gua…
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December 12, 2025 at 6:02 AM
How kind generous my friend MaryLee. With her car, & her driving, enabled to buy a lovely tree after all. Laura carried it, stood it up, Izzy retrieved ornaments and our soft and lit-up (Colin my penguin) friends. It's been three years
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December 10, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... Reassuring Trump's regime doesn't repudiate, but 2 blown up boat survivors nearly imprisoned ib torture prison worryiong. Through ICE US a police state ethnic cleansing anyone not white and poor. Most ordinary whites seem not to realize or silent.
December 10, 2025
Today is Human Rights Day, celebrated internationally in honor of the day seventy-seven years ago, December 10, 1948, when the United Nations General Assembly announced the Universal Declaration of Hu...
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December 11, 2025 at 1:40 PM
December 10, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... Reassuring Trump's regime doesn't repudiate, but 2 blown up boat survivors nearly imprisoned ib torture prison worryiong. Through ICE US a police state ethnic cleansing anyone not white and poor. Most ordinary whites seem not to realize or silent.
December 9, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... Trump & MAGA believe they can erase economic reality by lies. She explains all the instruments they will use. Omits ratcheting up of understandable fear (middle class & whites) & terror (all non-whites exc super rich) to hold out hope methods fail
December 9, 2025
When G.
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December 10, 2025 at 1:04 PM
December 9, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... Trump & MAGA believe they can erase economic reality by lies. She explains all the instruments they will use. Omits ratcheting up of understandable fear (middle class & whites) & terror (all non-whites exc super rich) to hold out hope methods fail
Profile in Awfulness: Tom Cotton open.substack.com/pub/borowitz... Struck by egregious lies about evidence to show blown up boats danger to US, dozens murdered drug dealers. There's none anywhere; and some showing they are ordinary fishermen, boats headed in other directions. He's just shameless
Profile in Awfulness: Tom Cotton
The senator from Arkansas is a firehose of lies.
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December 9, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Profile in Awfulness: Tom Cotton open.substack.com/pub/borowitz... Struck by egregious lies about evidence to show blown up boats danger to US, dozens murdered drug dealers. There's none anywhere; and some showing they are ordinary fishermen, boats headed in other directions. He's just shameless
Who’s the Last Person in the World to Deserve the Nobel Peace Prize? open.substack.com/pub/robertre... A list of Trump's continual acts of war (terror, cruelty everywhere) Reich: what a strong malignant narcissist can accomplish when untethered from reality.
Who’s the Last Person in the World to Deserve the Nobel Peace Prize?
The person who’s been waging illegal wars
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December 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Who’s the Last Person in the World to Deserve the Nobel Peace Prize? open.substack.com/pub/robertre... A list of Trump's continual acts of war (terror, cruelty everywhere) Reich: what a strong malignant narcissist can accomplish when untethered from reality.
Who’s the Last Person in the World to Deserve the Nobel Peace Prize? open.substack.com/pub/robertre... A list of Trump's continual acts of war (terror, cruelty everywhere) Reich: what a strong malignant narcissist can accomplish when untethered from reality.
Who’s the Last Person in the World to Deserve the Nobel Peace Prize?
The person who’s been waging illegal wars
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December 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Who’s the Last Person in the World to Deserve the Nobel Peace Prize? open.substack.com/pub/robertre... A list of Trump's continual acts of war (terror, cruelty everywhere) Reich: what a strong malignant narcissist can accomplish when untethered from reality.
December 7, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... It's Blowing up & killing of people in boats (not a shred of evidence produced anywhere) near Venezuela by Trump and Hegseth iserious escalation unconstitutional, illegal acts (ntil aproved by Trump's ssupreme court
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December 7, 2025
“I think it’s really important that this video be made public,” Representative Jim Himes (D-CT) said today on Face the Nation. Himes was referring to a video of the September 2 U.S. military strike on...
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December 8, 2025 at 5:47 PM
December 7, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... It's Blowing up & killing of people in boats (not a shred of evidence produced anywhere) near Venezuela by Trump and Hegseth iserious escalation unconstitutional, illegal acts (ntil aproved by Trump's ssupreme court
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Ellen
December 5, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... Worrying: US aligned aggresive colonialist, family "words"=heterosexual white; no "climate change" & ideologies interfering w/capitalism (targeted tax, regulations)," distorted Monroe doctrine (US runs west hemisphere "reward/punish"). Read it
December 5, 2025
Late last night, the Trump administration released the 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) of the United States of America.
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December 6, 2025 at 3:53 PM
December 5, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... Worrying: US aligned aggresive colonialist, family "words"=heterosexual white; no "climate change" & ideologies interfering w/capitalism (targeted tax, regulations)," distorted Monroe doctrine (US runs west hemisphere "reward/punish"). Read it
Trump’s Monument to Corruption open.substack.com/pub/robertre... Tear it down. Then rebuild the East building just as it was
Trump’s Monument to Corruption
And one of the first things to do when sanity and legality are restored
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December 5, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Trump’s Monument to Corruption open.substack.com/pub/robertre... Tear it down. Then rebuild the East building just as it was
The unexpected Thackeray
A wonderful time reading Vanity Fair with two groups of adults at two OLLIs. I doubt I've done justice to the book; a previous blog by me (linked in) has more detail, and analysis.
I tried to say something new & think I succeeded
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A wonderful time reading Vanity Fair with two groups of adults at two OLLIs. I doubt I've done justice to the book; a previous blog by me (linked in) has more detail, and analysis.
I tried to say something new & think I succeeded
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The unexpected Thackeray
A self-image in VF Amelia sitting across the way from the Osborne city mansion, watching for glimpse of her son, little Georgy as he passes or looks out the window of his room Dear readers and frie…
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December 5, 2025 at 10:57 PM
The unexpected Thackeray
A wonderful time reading Vanity Fair with two groups of adults at two OLLIs. I doubt I've done justice to the book; a previous blog by me (linked in) has more detail, and analysis.
I tried to say something new & think I succeeded
ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2025/12/03/t...
A wonderful time reading Vanity Fair with two groups of adults at two OLLIs. I doubt I've done justice to the book; a previous blog by me (linked in) has more detail, and analysis.
I tried to say something new & think I succeeded
ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2025/12/03/t...