I came across this quote via the recent blog entry 'The Strange Science of Zombie Fungi' – courtesy of Maria Popova's 'The Marginalian':
'A mind not be chang'd by Place or Time' – John Milton from Paradise Lost (Book I, line 234 … if I've counted right!).
"The mind is its own place”
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Mother's Day lunch - we'd have had roast potatoes ... and now my mind is on lunch! |
This has been my head space … while I've pottered around chattering away to myself! - happy in my own little way - as I pretend to gear my own self up to being sensible and progressing with things needing to be done. Also sorting a few things out that took forever … patience, at times, is not my virtue ...
No excuse – I've been lazy – which of course now means I'm dithering around trying to catch one of those tails to put some salt on it … perhaps I can actually come back into this world and put muddling through behind me … there's mental hope – but that headspace is another thing!
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Blue Tit - enjoying Spring |
Anyway after a gloomy International Women's Day and Mothering Sunday (our Mother's Day here in the UK – tied into the Church's calendar – dating back to the 8th century) … we are still enjoying mists or rain – no doubt the plants are appreciative … certainly the blue tits are filling out, as they chunter around in the lime tree outside.
I remember back twenty five years ago … we had Mother's Day with my my mother, and my brother's MIL, over in Alfriston (where the floods have recently been) … when the Canadian family were over …
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John Tenniel's 1890 illustration for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
… there were lots of us … 15 or so … it was so warm we moved outside and had our Mothering Sunday roast lunch in the garden …
I did find some interesting women I wanted to mention and thus rabbit holes I fell into … but I think I'll leave them for another day …
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti's portrait of Swinburne (1862) |
I did come across an article on Algernon Charles Swinburne's early work (1857 – 1871): 'The Female Archetypes' … which might make interesting reading for one or two of you …
It's drier and brighter today … thanks for your kind thoughts … and care – I'm just about up and running – by next week definitely …
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From a friend's garden - the hyacinths I gave her a few years ago |
The Marginalian - The Strange Science of Zombie Fungi
Paradise Lost - c/o Poets.org
Disstheses on Swinburne's 'The Female Archetypes' c/o Louisiana State University (NB a pdf)
Hilary Melton-Butcher
Positive Letters Inspirational Stories