courtney mcdonald

🚨 hello; i’d like to report a murder, or at least a life threatening burn?

@heavensbvnny it’s fast! 😂

Are there women out here who leave the house completely barefaced? No makeup , nothing at all, just rocking their natural look? If so, what’s that like?

Have we at least considered giving Coach Cignetti and the Indiana Hoosiers a crack at invading Greenland?

@Nero is it THAT hard to believe, tho? 🧐🤔😂

Hard to believe I was once such an asshole

the two sabbaticals, or the sabbatical strikes back. [spoiler: so far, neither shelob nor harrison ford have appeared in this sequel.] courtneymcdonald.ly/the-two-sabbat…

peak midwest & i’m here for it. go Hoosiers!!! 🔴⚪️ 🏈

New Year Felicitations to all. May your champagne be chilled, your resolutions implausible, and your dignity largely intact. 🥂

@London_W4 happy new year, Alastair! 🥂✨

My Fortnum and Mason’s hamper, candles, a picnic and the view over London from Primrose Hill. Things are only forbidden if you let them. Happy New Year you beautiful people.

also matt damon’s character is so loathsome and horribly familiar and “the best of us” should have been the sign, really. grossssss

watching interstellar - again. something so powerful in it, despite the sometimes tiresomely obvious sub text. the score! and mcconaughey! hats off to both.

@NoContextBrits erm ok but is there any appropriate guardian for your PM? cheers -

i love michael caine & muppets too but for my money (see what i did there), albert finney’s scrooge (1970) is the definitive and only. if you haven’t seen it, & even if you have, make it part of your Christmas traditions starting now. Merry Christmas & God bless us, every one! 🎄

Every Christmas Eve, I think about George Bailey. He dreamed of escaping Bedford Falls—of shaking off the dust of a small town, building skyscrapers, exploring the world. Instead, he stayed. He ran the Building & Loan his father left behind. He sacrificed his college money, his honeymoon savings, his chance to see the world, over and over, because people needed him. By the time the crisis hits, George feels like a failure. His life looks like one long series of missed opportunities, thwarted ambitions, and quiet resentments. He stands on the bridge, convinced the world would be better without him. Then Clarence shows him the truth: a Bedford Falls without George Bailey is a darker, meaner, hollowed-out place. The people he quietly helped, the small acts of integrity he performed without recognition, the risks he took to protect others—those weren’t detours. They were the substance of his life. The film’s deepest insight isn’t just that “no man is a failure who has friends.” It’s that real impact is almost always invisible in the moment. The lives you steady, the small kindnesses you extend, the responsibilities you shoulder when no one else will—these things ripple outward in ways you may never see. A strong sense of purpose doesn’t erase pain; it transforms it. It doesn’t merely explain why hard things happened. It asks: What are you now responsible for because they happened? Faith, at its best, does the same. It doesn’t promise that everything was “meant to be” in order to make suffering palatable. It invites you to look at what has been entrusted to you in light of what you’ve endured. George’s story reminds us that meaning is rarely found in the grand escape, but in the faithful presence. The dreams we surrender don’t always vanish—they often become the raw material for something more enduring than we imagined. If you’re carrying the weight of roads not taken, of dreams deferred, of a life that feels smaller than you once hoped—watch It’s a Wonderful Life again tonight. Not as nostalgia, but as revelation. You may not see the full difference you’ve made yet. But it’s there. And it matters more than you know. Merry Christmas, friends. 🎄🇨🇽🎅🦌☃️⛪️✝️❤️

Many people don’t know that when the Bible says Jesus was laid in a manger, the Greek word for manger is “phatnē” which refers to a feeding trough, and many in Bethlehem were made of stone. Here’s what’s powerful: Shepherds in the Bethlehem region were known for raising sacrificial lambs for the Temple. When a lamb was born, it was carefully inspected for blemishes and often placed in a manger or trough to protect it from injury because a damaged lamb could not be offered to God. So when the Lamb of God entered the world, He was laid in the *very place* where sacrificial lambs were kept. And who did the angels announce His birth to? Shepherds. Not kings. Not priests. Shepherds—men who understood sacrifice, blood, purity, and lambs without blemish. When the angels said, “You will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger” (Luke 2:12), it was a sign they would immediately recognize. This child wasn’t just a baby. He was the final Lamb. The One who would take away the sin of the world. From the moment He was born, Jesus was marked for sacrifice—not by men, but by God. ✨ “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.” (John 1:29)

visited some old friends today 🇺🇸

@hikingshawty 💯 - your thoughts on the Fleetwood Mac live album The Dance from 1997? i think it has some top versions of some of their best tracks…

happy spotify wrapped day please show me yours… my listening age is 68 i am unc…

Happy Thanksgiving 🦃 & God Bless America 🇺🇸 🎶 I've Got Plenty To Be Thankful For 🎶 from Bing Crosby youtu.be/tDDIGIGios0?si… via @YouTube