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“Make a habit of reading something inspiring and cheerful just before going to sleep.”
“Irony is wasted on the stupid”: Oscar Wilde.
“Ironing is wasted on those without ironing boards.”
~ Oscar Wilde-Carde.
Au parc Centennial.
“While I live, I’ll grow.” - the famous company motto and trademark of the historic Australian retail firm Anthony Hordern & Sons.
Lighting a candle on my front verandah as many others will do tonight to show we are thinking of Helen Haines.
23 October: Remembering Leszek Kołakowski, Polish philosopher & historian of ideas, born on this day in 1927.
“We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are".
“Two roads diverged in a wood,
But I could only see one track
because of my one-track mind
and the fact that
I had dropped my compass
down a rabbit-hole
while retying my shoelace
on the pathway to obsolescence.”
~ Robert Frost-Bight.
Listening to Vaughan Williams’ “JOB” recently reminded me that it was the first work of RVW’s that I bought on LP back in 1965 in a performance conducted by Sir Adrian Boult.
The next work of his I bought was the 9th Symphony, again conducted by Boult. …..
….. It was not the easiest way to approach the music of the great man especially as I was then living on my own in a converted railway carriage at a one-teacher school in a remote village in the middle of NSW.
Such music, listened to at night…..
