Happy Christmas! and other stuff

Well, another year, another late, late, late mailing of Christmas cards. For anyone anxiously awaiting our yearly update and Christmas wishes, we're aiming, perhaps, to have it out before the end of Orthodox Christmas; if not then, definitely by the end of Epiphany.

Today we head down to Florida to celebrate Christmas with our new niece. She won't remember it, but I'm sure there will be a sufficient photographic/video/holographic record to remind her later. At any rate, truffin.com is going to be dark until most like the middle of January.

To keep you occupied, I offer this tidbit from David Bayles and Ted Orland. In their book Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking, they write:

The role of the university has always been to provide an education, which is a small but siginificant step removed from training. Training prepares you for a job; an education prepares you for life.