Please follow the link to view this on the website, https://buzzypaws.com/blog/ Busby has added to yesterday’s post.
We have been admiring other people’s creative Christmas card designs.
We have been very busy making our blog posts into ‘easy to access’ pages…
Busy explains, “Did you know our blog is over a year old? That might be seven years for me – it rather feels like it!
We have certainly posted a lot of free activities, ideas, thoughts, music and links to all sorts of websites. Naturally, I’ve been keen to revisit some of them – especially in this winter weather.
Frankly, though, I have found scrolling through it all very tricky with my paws. The amount of material, too! It’s made me feel quite pawly.”
Poor Busby! He has got a point. So, one of us has been very busy making each blog post into a page.
In the future, once published, the content of our blog posts will be added to the webpage for that month.
Now, we hope that links to past months will be quicker to set up and easier to find. There will always be something to see for each month.
You will find the pages in the submenu of the new webpage, Busby’s Year.
Walt Disney, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Why the Pinocchio picture? Busby found it hard to accept his result in the quiz : “Which Fairy Tale Character Are You?”. Find out more and take the quiz, here: https://buzzypaws.com/november-with-busby/ . You can see his result, here: https://buzzypaws.com/december-with-busby/ (See what we did there?!)
We have been thinking about another quiz…
Busby remembered that we had not shared the results of the Adobe Creative Type Quiz. So here is his result: It was rather surprising – The Visionary. Although, upon reflection, maybe not so hard to believe. “Charismatic and expressive, you love sharing your ideas and visions with others […] You live in a world of infinite possibilities, preferring to see things not as they are but as they could be.” Hmm!
There’s another chance to find out your creative type, here. We suggest younger readers have some help from an adult. https://mycreativetype.com/
We are thinking about 2023 and…
our one word theme for the year. For the last two years, it was light and, the darker the days, the more powerful it has felt. Any light, at this time of year, is a welcome antidote to the darkness, so our fairy lights stay up all winter. It feels hard to replace light with a new word!
I’d like to gently encourage you to come up with your own word for 2023. Don’t worry if you need more time to think and choose – it’s import to get a word that feels right.
You can find out more about this on September’s page in Busby’s Year on the Buzzy Paws website. Look for the lighthouse picture. https://buzzypaws.com/september-with-busby/ (We did it again! We’ll stop now).
Light has been an uplifting one word theme. It has drawn attention to beautiful things that might have passed us by, for example, this track – Breathing Light:
This moving clip of whales swimming under the Northern Lights seems a fitting way to say goodbye to our word for 2021 and 2022.
We have been keeping our sense of humour…
Did you know that the third Monday in January (that’s the 16th this year) is called Blue Monday? Many people hit a low point once the dust settles after Christmas and the days are dark and grey. This cartoon by Arnie Levin is one of many featured on the Dogs of the New Yorker pages on this website: https://condenaststore.com/collections/dogs+of+the+new+yorker The dog cartoons appeared in the New Yorker, some will appeal to children, but the website is not aimed at children.
Cartoon by Charles Barsotti, again from Dogs of the New Yorker pages on this website: https://condenaststore.com/collections/dogs+of+the+new+yorker
We have been thinking about sleep…
It is one of the four things we are focusing on in January for the Happiness Project we are doing with a group of friends.This lullaby is not only very atmospheric, but the clip also manages to link last year’s one word theme with this year’s. Perhaps you can guess what it is…
Older readers might like to listen to this recent podcast about how composer, Eric Whitacre’s “remarkable experiences with outer space, multi-part harmonies, and a (literal) leap of faith teach him crucial lessons about embracing what lights him up to be his true self.” Adults and older readers might also find the podcast relaxing enough to help them sleep. https://meditativestory.com/eric-whitacre/
We will sign off with a picture of someone who has no trouble clocking up the zeds. Did you know that dogs spend half their life asleep?! Busby has vivid dreams and often wakes us up with the little noises he makes. Sadly, he has no memory of them so we can only guess what he is dreaming about…
We will be back next month with a feature on how to make pictures like the one on this slideshow. We will also take a sneak peek at Busby’s sleeping arrangements and find out his tips for a good night’s sleep.
Thank you…
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