Happy Holidays to All
Peace, Love and Happiness to Everyone!
Wishing everyone a very Happy Christmas! May your day be filled with love, laughter, and joy with family and friends.
To those celebrating Hanukkah, I hope your festival of lights has been bright, meaningful, and full of happiness.
And as Kwanzaa begins (Dec 26 – Jan 1), may this celebration of African American heritage and the seven principles of Nguzo Saba bring unity, creativity, and joy to you and your loved ones. Enjoy the candle-lighting on the kinara and the special Karamu feast!
Happy Yule to everyone, as all of us are celebrating the days getting longer!
Here’s to love, light, and togetherness this holiday season!
About the Creator
Tim Carmichael
Tim is an Appalachian poet and cookbook author. He writes about rural life, family, and the places he grew up around. His poetry and essays have appeared in Bloodroot and Coal Dust, his latest book.
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The Soul of a Poet
I thought I would write and tell a little about myself. I was born and raised in a rural area of Western North Carolina, in a small mountain community called Spillcorn. It's a place where everyone knows each other, where generations stay rooted in the same hills and hollers. Many who were raised there never left, never received an education, and never traveled farther than the town itself. I was determined to do things differently. I went to college and moved to the big city of Asheville, big to me at least. That move opened my world.
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1. Standards That Shape History Standards are the backbone of component reliability. Commercial parts are designed to meet everyday needs, following ISO, ASTM, or SAE standards to perform consistently in predictable environments like passenger aircraft, industrial machines, and vehicles. Defense-grade components, however, face far harsher conditions. They adhere to MIL-STD, MIL-SPEC, and Department of Defense regulations, ensuring they survive extreme heat, vibration, and electromagnetic interference. These standards also demand stricter audits, documentation, and compliance checks, because failure is not an option in defense applications.
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'20/20'
"Do It Again" the track that would ultimately open the Beach Boys final album on Capitol Records which was released on February 10th 1969 had originally been released as a single in August of 1968. The track was the first of many post-Pet Sounds era throwbacks to the early Beach Boys sound which would become continually more cliched and eventually lead the Beach Boys to the level of self-parody they would eventually succumb to in the 1980s while their closest contemporaries The Beatles nearing the end of their run in 1969 would go on to be viewed as the most influential band of all time. However, the song itself is not bad on its surface, and it opens with a futuristic sounding (for 1969) drumbeat captured by then-Beach Boys engineer Stephen Desper using tape delays on the drums performed by Dennis Wilson and John Guerin. The song has been re-recorded numerous times over the years on various Beach Boys-related projects most notably the 2011 re-recording at Capitol studios featuring the five surviving Beach Boys at the time backed instrumentally by various members of both the Brian Wilson Band and Mike Loves touring "Beach Boys" to promote the then upcoming Beach Boys 50th Anniversary reunion tour in 2012. The hammering and power drill sound at the end of the song was an excerpt from a track called "Workshop" that was to be a part of the uncompleted "SMiLE" album.
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Comments (5)
What a great message to read on Christmas morning. All the best to you and yours Tim.
Thank you for helping to spread joy! Happy Holidays, Tim!
Happy holidays!!
Happy Holidays to you too! ✨️❤️
Amen! Happy Holidays Tim! 🎄