# Open Christmas card to my mother

![Geboorte van Christus, Robert van den Hoecke, after Jan van den Hoecke, 1632 - 1668](https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/i/katjasgrace/RP_P_1935_214.jpg)

Dear Mama,

Happy Christmas!

Rather than be so bold as to give you a further object to take care of, I gathered for you a collection of things I think you might like on the internet. I CC the world, in case they are interested, or want to add anything.

Lots of love, Katja xox

(Picture: Geboorte van Christus, Robert van den Hoecke, after Jan van den Hoecke, 1632 - 1668)

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1.  [Baby elephants](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n61fHYOTc_4)
    
2.  [A nice video of a 1965 living room clog dance](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs2j8f7H2WY)
    
3.  [Round seals that I gathered earlier](https://worldspiritsockpuppet.com/2020/10/16/MORE-SEALS.html)
    
4.  [Dance your PhD winner](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUQvJOSCoi4) (though perhaps you showed that to me originally..)
    
5.  [The complete works of Alfred Sisley](https://www.alfredsisley.org/the-complete-works.html)
    
6.  [Archive of Olegas Truchanas’ photography](https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-144700220)
    
7.  [The 1890s, around the world, on film](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHqha40xRL4&t=131s)
    
8.  [Positly](https://www.positly.com/about/): Perhaps you have enough opportunities to interview people, but if you want to run your own surveys of strangerse online, this streamlines the process a lot (i.e. you basically write some questions and put money in the slot and they handle getting strangers to answer your questions and paying them). For instance, I asked some Americans [why they voted as they did](https://worldspiritsockpuppet.com/2020/11/06/why-trump.html), and some other things about their experience of the election.
    
9.  [Hamilton the Musical](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPSWZUExZ8M&list=RDaPSWZUExZ8M&start_radio=1&t=4435): I know I probably recommended this before, but a) I should note that it might be the strongest artistic recommendation I’ve ever given, and b) if you did listen to it, I recommend listening to it again.
    
10.  [How to live for much longer in expectation](https://waitbutwhy.com/2016/03/cryonics.html) (I know you don’t believe in this, but I encourage you to think about it more, because its important to me that you avoid dying if feasible.)
    
11.  [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en): the national museum of the Netherlands has a pleasing website for their pleasing art collection.
    

Here are some that I like today:

![Morning Ride along the Beach, Anton Mauve, 1876](https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/i/katjasgrace/SK_A_3602.jpg) [Morning Ride along the Beach, Anton Mauve, 1876](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio/styles/the-hague-school/objects#/SK-A-3602,2) ![Fishing Pinks in Breaking Waves, Hendrik Willem Mesdag, c. 1875 - c. 1885](https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/i/katjasgrace/SK_A_2670.jpg) [Fishing Pinks in Breaking Waves, Hendrik Willem Mesdag, c. 1875 - c. 1885](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio/styles/the-hague-school/objects#/SK-A-2670,4) ![Landschap in de omgeving van Den Haag, Jacob Maris, 1891](https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/i/katjasgrace/SK_A_2468.jpg) [Landschap in de omgeving van Den Haag, Jacob Maris, 1891](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/my/collections/1870975--jos-denneman/haagse-school/objecten#/SK-A-2468,46) ![Cellar of the Artist’s Home in The Hague, Johan Hendrik Weissenbruch, 1888](https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/i/katjasgrace/SK_A_3618.jpg) [Cellar of the Artist’s Home in The Hague, Johan Hendrik Weissenbruch, 1888](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/my/collections/1870975--jos-denneman/haagse-school/objecten#/SK-A-3618,5)