Having seen Protojournalist Linton Weeks around the office with this mug many times, I asked him recently what he keeps in it, assuming he'd been strolling to and from the coffee or tea stash. But, no: This mug, he says, holds drinking water, only and always.
Whatever you're drinking on this second day (or first day?) of Christmas, Linton's storytelling is a great companion while you're cuddling up with your cuppa. His latest post tells how early 20th-century Native Americans started folding Christmas rituals into their traditional wintertime celebrations:
"The Salish passed down a Christmas story of a 'great and good man who came among their forefathers and performed miracles of all kinds, and on leaving them said he would return in the form of a large white coyote,' the 1910 Winchester News noted. 'They say he has appeared at different times, but has not been seen now for more than 150 years.' "
