Christmas Week Vintage Christmas Card Style. . .

Here we are three days post-Christmas, but I hope you might be able to find a few quiet moments to sit down and actually chat with friends and loved ones sans electronic devices in your hands or on the table in front of you. Or the TV blaring in the corner or (shudder) over the fireplace).

Instead, let's look at each other! Talk to each other! Be mentally present while you do. Respect the views and ideas of each other. Practice basic civility.

Your talk needn't be about anything consequential or of substance. You needn't discuss anything as ponderous as U.S. politics, Donald Trump. . . or Duchess Meghan. Just talk about whatever comes up and see where the conversation leads.

Before you know it, three hours will have passed by, and you will have reconnected to each other. Hopefully over a mug of something warm, or a nip of something medicinal. Try actually talking TO each other rather than AT each other. You might be pleasantly surprised by the results.

-- Heinz-Ulrich

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Mid-November Monday. . .

A few minutes between classes this morning, so I snapped pictures of today's attire and accessories. The first wearing this season of the Optimo 'Dearborn' fedora, and the tie is a vintage number from Orvis, a nod to my late father's fly-fishing and fly-tying hobbies. It's been two or three years since this particular necktie's last appearance, so high time to pull it out and knot it carefully around the ol' neck. Managed to nail it on the first attempt too. Could this be the start of a trend? -- Heinz-Ulrich

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Friday on Campus Style. . .

S omewhat atypically, I was on campus for several hours today helping with an interview that is part of a larger documentary project on which a colleague and I are working. Although I am behind the camera (I'm the audio guy in fact), what better reason does one need to dress presentably? Exactly. Everything worn, barring the recently purchased University of Wisconsin socks, a gift from the Grand Duchess, has been in the rotation for a while now. And, of course, there was the Panama hat, which I'll wear until we pass October 1st when the felt fedoras reappear. -- Heinz-Ulrich

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