Personal note

As one or two of my friends may have surmised, for one reason and another (at least) currently I feel little or no desire to blog.

I have not cancelled, though, a few scheduled posts.

And I will still be available via e-mail (seanjeating at gmail dot com) ... unless I have moved to my last dwelling six feet under. ;-)

Take good care of yourselves, and be kind to each other.
Sean

Monochrome Monday

In the woods ...

Beers & Books (419) – Ospina Pizano

Solo un poco aqui

María Ospina Pizano *1977

Saturday Night Music – Duo violine & cello

Gabriel Bianco * 25 April 1988

Anastasia Kobekina * 26 August 1994

Cold

. . .

The bad is called good

We live now in an era where normal values have been displaced.
The good is called bad, the bad - good.

Anna Politkovskaya (30 August 1958 – 6 October 2006)

On the road

It's become wintery again

Dark suspicion

I've got a deep dark suspicion
that pretty soon we should start
looking around for another planet
for ourselves. 

Wolfgang Borchert (20 May 1921 – 20 November 1947)

Saturday Night Music – Carnaval de Venise

Niccolò Paganini (27 October 1782 – 27 May 1840)

Olivier Pons *1970

Gabriel Bianco * 25 April 1988

Friday is Skyday

...

Laughing Lhursday*

Hens have two legs
I have two legs.
Ergo, I am a hen.

* [For first time visitors]:

Typo in the title?
Nah. It's just that I would not let a tiny T spoil an avantgardistic alliteration.

A process of discovery

As a writer, I write to see.
If I knew how it would end, I wouldn't write.
It's a process of discovery.

John McGahern  (12 November 1934 – 30 March 2006)

Beers & Books (418) – By the Lake

Oh, a book by John that I don't know yet?
So I asked my bookseller to order it for me in the USA.
A few days later I held ‘By the Lake’ in my hands,
opened it and started reading.
‘The morning was clear. There was no wind on the lake.’
A déjà vu? I know that one, don't I?
And right:
Exactly the beginning of ‘That They May Face The Rising Sun’.
Vintage International had just changed the title.

John McGahern (12 November 1934 – 30 March 2006)