#26

it's been a while...

Welcome to the table.

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A painting worth viewing:

“Blue II” by Joan Miro (1961)

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A poem worth pondering:

Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Glory be to God for dappled things –
   For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
      For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
   Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow, and plough;
      And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.

All things counter, original, spare, strange;
   Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
      With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
                                Praise him.

For more great poetry 😉:

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Music worth listening to (on shuffle):

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A quote worth noting:

“Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so make it finite.”

GK Chesterton

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Odds & ends:

• Books: I recently finished The Dutch House by Ann Patchett. I give it a 5/5 stars. Her writing is just absolutely superb.

  • Currently reading

    • Margaret Thatcher’s bio - 40% finished

    • Chesterton’s Orthodoxy - 20% finished

    • Love Thy Body - 57% finished

• Wanna-be-chef: I made some Greek lemon potatoes that turned out SO crispy & perfectly tangy. My husband literally just stood in the kitchen & ate them out of the tupperware container.

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That’s all for now!

All my best,

Alexandra