Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Shovelling new energy
Well, what did I do while being extremely busy with not blogging?
First of all: For a couple of days this newsholic did follow the advice of Mr Thoreau and ignore any news. No TV; no radio, no PC - ha ha, no! No laptop, either. - And: he did not smoke. Neither he consumed any alcohol. He drank and ate well, though, both of which gave him power to shovel snow.
What (else) did he do then?
Reading (details will / might follow), shovelling snow, writing, feeding the birds, reading, pondering, writing, listening, talking, watching black birds and sparrows, bull-, green- and gold finchs, blue- and great tits, a pair of spotted woodpeckers, a nuthatch, robins and, of course, Mr & Mrs Crow who do accept us to being their neighbours for the past 33 years, reading, writing, shovelling snow - by the way, shovelling with one 'l' or with two, Stan? :) - learning Blackbirdish, oh! and enjoying Fidelio, Carmen, La Traviata, Aida, Don Giovanni, Tosca, La Bohème, The Magic Flute.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Hiatus interruptus II
Ladies and gentlemen,
Bayanlar, Baylar,
Signoras e Signori,
Señoras y Señores,
Mesdames et Messieurs,
Friends,
worrying what might be the long-term consequences of such a hiatus, I thought it's better to decide in favour of a hiatus interruptus.
May either those forgive me who would have loved this hiatus to never end, and consequently feel deeply dissatified, and those who felt ... well, let's say irritated. :)
I was irritated, myself, as I did not intend to have a break. It just happened, or rather I let it happen. Even more strange: I did not miss blogging (very much).
Why? Don't know. Summing up all possible reasons would probably take too long, and boring you is one of the last things I wish to do.
- - -
Reading the lines above some readers might have thought they had déjà vu.
:)
Well ... yes ... I just copied and pasted most of what I wrote after one of my former hiati.
And now, may this beginning, again, bear a special magic. :)
Bayanlar, Baylar,
Signoras e Signori,
Señoras y Señores,
Mesdames et Messieurs,
Friends,
worrying what might be the long-term consequences of such a hiatus, I thought it's better to decide in favour of a hiatus interruptus.
May either those forgive me who would have loved this hiatus to never end, and consequently feel deeply dissatified, and those who felt ... well, let's say irritated. :)
I was irritated, myself, as I did not intend to have a break. It just happened, or rather I let it happen. Even more strange: I did not miss blogging (very much).
Why? Don't know. Summing up all possible reasons would probably take too long, and boring you is one of the last things I wish to do.
- - -
Reading the lines above some readers might have thought they had déjà vu.
:)
Well ... yes ... I just copied and pasted most of what I wrote after one of my former hiati.
And now, may this beginning, again, bear a special magic. :)
Sunday, January 03, 2010
Mirrors do seldom err
A book is a mirror:
if an ape looks into it
an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799)
Saturday, January 02, 2010
Friday, January 01, 2010
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