One of my newer online friends, Lynne, has been quiet on her blog for a while.
She and her family are going through hard times; a heavy, private grief. I don't know the trial, but I can hear the hurt.
Lynne is a poet, a very good poet.
Her Opus #11 is a must read, a beautiful expression of her heart. The photographs on her blog are also her own.
:: Emma (Jane Austen) - audio book with quick searches in the written book for particular quotes. Listening to a great book gets me over the motivational hump of ironing and cleaning the fridge.
:: Beowulf (Seamus Heaney, trans.) - I read and listened at the same time. This epic Anglo-Saxon poem stiffens the sinews, makes you want to benchpress, lift weights; it will accompany us on future car trips.
:: Robin Hood (Howard Pyle) - a book for youth that's fun to read as an adult.
:: Oxford Book of Ages (chosen by Anthony & Sally Sampson) - a library find, quotes from which filled at least ten pages in my journal. Funny at places, poignant at others, it records what people wrote at a particular age. From newborn to 100 there are quotes for every age.
:: Ernest Rutherford, Architect of the Atom (Peter Kelman) - a science history book which I sold, but quickly read before I shipped it off. Science is my Scylla. Science is my Charybdis.
:: Ecclesiastical History of the English Speaking Peoples (Bede) - I'm glad that I read it but it took an effort towards the end. Unfamiliar names, Egberts, Ethelfreds and Eadbalds, made me thankful for the Johns and Gregorys and Theodores. This is a book which I will open and browse as I periodically clean and organize my bookshelves. I wish I had the time right now, on the heels of Bede, to read The Life of St. Columba and Winston Churchill's The Birth of Britain in his series The History of the English Speaking People. Oh the synthesis! I'm almost convincing myself!
Stalled for Lack of Time:
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