"To be lonely is a state of mind, something completely other than physical solitude; when modern authors rant about the soul's intolerable loneliness, it is only proof of their own intolerable emptiness."

~ Karen Blixen, pen-name Isak Dinesen


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"...there is so much sea imagery in the book [Winter's Tales*].  One image in particular keeps recurring: an enveloping blueness, in which the horizon dissolves and the sea and the sky seem to be the same element.  This is the vision King Erik has when he clears the hill and looks down upon the shore where Granze is fishing, and it is what Lady Helena remembers about her nine days with the young sailor:  'There is no up and down in the sea.' "

~ *Karen Blixen [Isak Dinesen The Life of a Storyteller, Judith Thurman, St. Martin's Press, 1982.

The sun, the sand, the sea ~ 

" I love to sit on the beach and watch the sunsets, reflecting on the past and reviewing the various possible paths to the future.  Somehow, I'm more objective when I'm at the beach.  I can shut the rest of the world out and do my best inner reflection." ~ Ruth Fishel

~PRECIOUS SOLITUDE, Finding peace and serenity in a hectic world  ~ Ruth Fishel, Adams Media Corp., 1999

 

 

 

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Spring Officially ~ Thursday, March 20

Third Thursday Reading ~ March Reading is cancelled because of bookshop holidays.  We look forward to Neil Paul's visit on Thursday, April 17.  1:00 o'clock.  Please watch for details.

Apologies for the absence of email notices.  Contact us at neatlittlebookshop@gmail.com in future.  Thank you.  Sorry for any inconvenience. lbw

Spring Fever

The Neat L'l Bookshop will be closed for holidays, reopening on April 2 Wednesday.  We hope that you have a great transition into spring, officially next Thursday.  lbw

I TASTE a liquor never brewed,
     From tankards scooped in pead;
Not all the vats upon the Rhine
Yield such an alcohol !

Inebriate of air am I,
And debauchee of dew,
Reeling, through endless summer days,
From inns of molten blue.

When landlords turn the drunken bee
Out of the foxglove's door,
When butterflies renounce their drams,
I shall but drink the more !


Till seraphs swing their snowy hats,
And saints to windows run,
To see the little tippler
Leaning against the sun !

~ Emily Dickinson

Philip Larkin wrote:

"I am afraid the compulsion to write poems left me about seven years ago, since when I have written virtually nothing.  Naturally this is a disappointment, but I would sooner write no poems than bad poems."

English poet (1922 - 1985)

                Happy International Women's Day ~

My beautiful granddaughters.  We don't often post family photos; however, today my joy is two-fold. Pride and love on International Women's Day with the passionate desire for a "perfect" world for the next generation of women ~  and the return of my computer and precious photo files!

 

[Always back-up photo files. lbw]