With my own 'muse,' on holiday..........

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For you many "Downton Abbey" fans...  I thought you might like a link, to a book blog, which I follow.  The Jan. 29 post is titled "Guest Blogger: Charles Todd on the Drinks of Downton Abbey."...

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Looking through old 'Victoria' magazines, I came upon a excerpt from a memoir...  "A Joyful Noise" by Janet Gillespie.  The excerpt made me want to see the book.  So I have it on reserve, at my library.

Some, from a review:
"A stylish and witty recounting of childhood summers in New England in the 1920s, by one of five children in a loving family -- which seemed to possess the wicked knack of enjoying, and exploiting, one another's landmark idiosyncrasies.  There was grandmother Baba, erect and small, bellowing messages from porch to boathouse via a megaphone;  Mother and siblings, at work on.........."

Sounds like-a-bit-of-fun...   Perhaps not to be read cover to cover.  But to be read, here and there, as one picks it up...
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Also in this old 'Victoria' magazine, was the article "On Keeping a Journal," by Phyllis Theroux.

"Every morning just before dawn, I rise, make myself a cup of coffee, and sit quietly in a wing chair in the living room for about an hour.  Waking early without effort is one of the genuine pleasures of getting older.  Life has fewer days in it, but nature compensates by allowing you to greet them sooner."

Sweet essay...  Makes me want to read more of what this woman has written...  And yet again, makes me wish I could Journal.  By pen and paper that is.  Certainly this blog, is a form of a daily entry in a Journal of sorts.  But, typing is not writing.....   -sigh-

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Another page in my 'Victoria' magazine from Jan. 1994, is the above.  About a Children's book,  "Emily" by Michael Bedard.

 

Synopsis:

"A young girl who lives across the street from the reclusive Emily Dickinson gets her chance to meet the poet when her mother is invited to play the piano for Emily. The girl sneaks up to Emily's room and exchanges a small gift for an authentic poem, which is included in the book."

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Btw, these photos I took, of pages in the old magazine, make it look very, very yellowed and ancient.  ;-)  It's not quite that ancient.  But the light I used, is one in the Den, beside my computer table.  It has an ivory tinted shade on it, and I think this adds toooooooooo much 'yellow' to my photos.  Just saying.
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Also 'just saying,' it's quite obvious that my own inner 'muse' has flown.  All I can come up with, to post about today, are the topics here.  We shall see when my muse will return...  :-)

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"Photography........... takes a minute and makes it an eternity."
~Isaac B. Singer
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