After rain, sunshine:
tomorrow, there will be
mushrooms for breakfast
Category: books
bisy; backson
Like Christopher Robin, I have been “BISY” and there haven’t been as many updates to the blog recently as I’d have liked.
I found this feather while walking to the village the other day. I assume it’s a woodpecker feather, though I suppose it could belong to a hoopoe – we certainly see the abubilla more often than the pájaro carpintero, which I hear sometimes but catch sight of only on very rare occasions.
The feather markings made me think of the Spotted or Herbaceous Backson, although, of course, the Backson isn’t the only mythical beast that is spotted.
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they say…
…that you can’t judge a book by its cover. They also say you can judge a man by the company he keeps. Can you judge a book by the company it keeps, though? And, if so, how come my book is hanging out in far more august company than I ever do?
gentle reader
My partner just brought me home a reader – what more could any writer want?!
Well, no, it’s an e-reader, and it’s only on loan, but it’s still enormously interesting. I quote from the manual, with my own reactions and thoughts in italics:
Note on use:
Gentle reader,
• Replacement or repair of a broken or scratched touch panel is not covered by the warranty.
So you can touch, but you mustn’t scratch, prod, niggle or pick. Mind you, even touching is fairly libertine for this day and age.
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the spaces between
The heart nests in the bone tree.
She chatters idly, then sings
when the sun touches her. In Spring
she seeks a mate, peeping
from behind a complex foliage
of words and silences.
(An old poem posted because the photo reminded me of the ‘complex foliage’. Having found it, I thought I’d try and remember something about how and why I wrote it.)
It was Castaneda’s Don Juan who talked of not seeing the shapes of the tree and its leaves, but instead looking at the spaces between them.
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don't confuse the narrator 