I am now, thanks to encouragement from a friend, on tumblr as well. Some of the posts that follow are from 'over there'. But I thought I should post them here too to avoid losing readers. Though perhaps the very act of posting them will lose me readers...?
For anyone who wants to have a look, the link to my tumblr site is: http://tweeterofwit.tumblr.com/
Spring
A line from a long-forgotten poem has been scrolling through my mind this week. ‘Nothing is so beautiful as spring.’ It’s Gerard Manley Hopkins, I think, but uncharacteristically simple language for him: no compounds, no overstatement, just a simple telling of a truth.
And this week, with sunshine, lambs, blossom and fat budding leaves, birdsong everywhere and at almost every hour, that simple truth has been echoing.
Hopkins had it right.
Nothing is so beautiful as spring.
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