January 2017 – Words of War

January 25, 2017August 23, 2019

A Woman & the Vegetable – Family Vol. 2

melon

Read up a bit on Ralph Waldo Emerson, an American essayist of the 19^th century, and you may run across this: “The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.” Continue reading “A Woman & the Vegetable – Family Vol. 2”

January 17, 2017August 23, 2019

Regina quondam, regina futura – Family Vol. 3

beach-shells-edit “The best thing for being sad,” replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, “is to learn something. That’s the only thing that never fails.”

Thus wrote Terence Hanbury White in The Once and Future King, first published in its entirety in 1958 – the year I turned 2. It will be just as true at the end of 2017, when I turn 61. Continue reading “Regina quondam, regina futura – Family Vol. 3”