I'm due at my friends' in a couple of hours where more Christmas festivities will begin. In preparation, I'm putting the final touches in a few appetizers … curry chicken roll-ups (always a hit – I leave out the butter and use 10" tortillas instead), devilled eggs, and brie/mango quesadillas.

I like to have the TV on while I'm cooking but it needs to be on something I don't have to stare at continually, obviously. Something like a movie I've seen before. I thought the documentary on John Lennon, Imagine, would be appropriate on Christmas morning, while I cook.

Lennon is one of those touchstones in my life, an iconic figure, giant yet so very human and fragile. Fascinating. Anyway, one of the first questions asked by an interviewer in this fabulous film is "Why are you doing this? Why are you filming, documenting your life like a diary?"

Which made me wonder … wouldn't John have LOVED blogging? In fact, he would have LOVED the Internet – a way for ordinary people to get their own message out. To reach out to other ordinary people to find their own extraordinary-ness.

A John Lennon blog … Imagine that … !

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