Friday is Skyday

17:22

 

John Millington Synge – The Playboy of the Western World

John Millington Synge (16 October 1871 – 24 March 1909)

Cyril Cusack (26 November 1910 – 7 October 1993)

Getting autumnal

Everything harvested
but the kale and lots of physalis.

Flowers start withering,

and trees changing their colours.

 

Beers & Books XV

American Whisky

 Andrzej Szczypiorski (3 February 1928 – 16 May 2000)

Today 528 years ago

The first American who discovered Columbus

made a terrible discovery.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1 July 1742 – 24 February 1799)

Mo(o)nday

21:59

 

Beers & Books XIV

Störtebeker beers are good,
the book is worth a translation.

 Dörte Hansen * 1964

Klaus Störtebeker (1360 – 1401)

Störtebeker Braumanufaktur

Beers & Books XIII

The Time of the Doves

Mercè Rodoreda (10 October 1908 – 13 April 1983)

Friday is Skyday

18:28

18:29

18:33

18:34

 

To compare with nowadays

Ernesto "Che" Guevara (14 June 1928 – 9 October 1967)

Beers & Books XII

When published in 1978,
according to the Donegal Democrat
the book was "a shocking libel
on the people of Donegal".

Patrick McGinley *1937

Chimneys

For a moment
ephemerality
came to my mind.

 

Pride of Creation

Around the world, hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children with mental health conditions have been shackled, chained or locked in confined spaces, at least once in their lives.

Many are held in overcrowded, filthy rooms, sheds, cages, or animal shelters and are forced to eat, sleep, urinate, and defecate in the same tiny area.

 Break the Chains!