About a third of the way through this bowl of 2012 Reiner’s Long Golden Flake in a 2002 smooth natural straight silver banded Ardor Venere Extra Fatta A Mano Maigret billiard, signed by Dorelio Rovera.
I've been alternating between Peterson's Holiday Season 2015 (which is as good as everyone tells me it is) and Rattray's Winter Edition 2014 (which apparently no one has ever smoked before).
No matter how black, white, male, female, Irish, German, tall, short, ugly or pretty you felt this year, you are part of a family that has been targeted by an unforgiving cosmos since its inception but has, regardless, survived ... humanity, warts and all, is an inherently heroic species that has spent about 99.99% of its short lifetime as an underdog. And If you see no billboards telling you that, it's not because it's not true. It's because there's little to no profit to be made telling you.
I could go on and on about the suffering we've endured and the adaptations we've made, but to me, our species' crowning jewel is that on the shortest day of the year, when the sun spends most of its time swallowed, when everything is frozen, when nothing can grow, when the air is so cold our voices stop right in front of our faces ... we put a string of lights on a universe that is currently doing nothing to earn it. We not only salvage an otherwise desolate time of year, we make it the best time of year.
— Dan Harmon
I'm celebrating the best time of the year with some Newminster No.306 English Oriental in a bulldog of unknown origin and I'm toasting both you and I. May we both have the merriest of Christmases. We've earned it, you know.