Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Puppets and Lights, Child Delivers Christmas Tree, and Vera Wong Mystery Novel

 

I took this photo of my living room wall. The swirling lights only appeared for a few moments and only one time. I had my phone camera nearby. My son said the lights look like Jesus' thorns. I had not seen that but they do. If you click on the photo to enlarge it, the puppets appear to be floating.

I enjoyed this book "Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers" by Jesse G. Sutanto. It is set in San Francisco's China Town today, when Vera discovers a dead body in her old tea shop that has almost no customers. Vera is energized to solve the murder and has a humorous take on life. She is about 64 and considered old, but I am lots older than her!

And a child delivering a child sized Christmas tree. We'd best get ready for Christmas friends. I am writing Christmas cards, ordering and wrapping gifts and I attended church last Friday night for hymn singing and fun for little kids and a candle light service. This year I learned of a political prisoner in another country and mailed him a Christmas card to the prison. Many countries have political prisoners, sad to say. I like to spread light and joy especially at this time of year.

4 comments:

Mevely317 said...

Those reflections do resemble thorns! (*goosebumps*)
Your book sounds like a hoot; I may look for it on Kindle.

diamondc said...

Merry Christmas: I agree it does look like the Thorns of Jesus, lovely photo.
Oh my that little one with the car and tree what a hoot.
I belong to two book clubs will have to mention this one in hopes we read it at one of the clubs.

Catherine๐ŸŽ„๐ŸŽ„๐ŸŽ„๐ŸŽ„๐ŸŽ„

DawnTreader said...

The last photo made me smile :)
I had a strange reflected "light shadow" swinging to and fro on my living room wall today, and once before. The first time I thought it must come from something outside but couldn't figure out what. Today it hit me that it must be from a small Christmas crib silhouette that hangs in my window... (and the phenomenon only appears when it's hit by the afternoon sun from a certain angle - and most days have been overcast, plus sunset is very early now)

Mari said...

Those lights are so interesting!
The book sounds interesting. I'm 64, so I'd get it!