Once upon a time

Once upon a time there were stories. The stories carried the wisdom and knowledge of generations into the future, they allowed the young to learn from the mistakes and experience of the elders, and also allowed the young to pick up and carry on without having to learn everything from the beginning. The elders felt their responsibility to pass things on, to give to the young ones, and they honored this responsibility.

It's a pretty good idea, this sharing of knowledge and wisdom, isn't it?

On a grey February Sunday

Valentine's Day is a day when the fairytale version of love is celebrated. Therefor, a poem that tells you what to do when you're stuck in a fairytale seems suitable:



The wisdom of Neil Gaiman seems indefinite.

Good luck!

Congratulations

One of my favourite authors is getting married to one of my favourite artists. It's like a fairytale in so many ways.

Winterson, Atwood and Woolf

In my mind there's a strong associative link between Jeanette Winterson, Margaret Atwood and Virginia Woolf. I can't really put my finger on it, yet, but I think it's something I'll talk more about once I've had time to sit down and think about it for a bit.

Meanwhile I'll just settle for recommending you to read some of their works, they're all really great writers.

Yikes!

A colleague just shared a Really Creepy Story with me over the 'net, I read it and replied an onomatopoetic 'Yikes!' To further foreground my reaction I made it big and red and underlined it.

It left her totally confused.

She figured it was some sort of abbreviation and tried to decipher it, to no avail. Since it isn't.

Communication is not to be taken for granted.