that and this

[incandescens]

I have to admire the Independent's choice of photographs: in this article about George Osborne (our Chancellor, alas) and his latest ideas to get the economy moving and invest in infrastructure, the text discussion of the plan is careful and polite, but the photo is more appropriate to a dodgy car salesman rubbing his hands together as you sign the contract.

(Not that I'm prejudiced about the current Government or anything. Heavens, no.)

Picked up Aaronovitch's Rivers of London (that is, in the sense that I physically picked it up from the pile of books quite close to me, not that I didn't yet have a copy), and couldn't help wondering what Mama Thames would have thought of the Jubilee celebrations and that procession down the river. Probably she'd have been vastly gratified. (I am looking forward to the next one in that series.)

Also finally got round to adding some more quilts to my etsy shop (at http://www.etsy.com/shop/CraneLily if anyone's curious). The fact that there were five new quilts to add shows that it's been a while since I updated it. I metaphorically smack my fingers.

And prepare for work tomorrow. Ah well. Only three days this week.

---

The Secret

Two girls discover
the secret of life
in a sudden line of
poetry.

I who don’t know the
secret wrote
the line. They
told me

(through a third person)
they had found it
but not what it was
not even

what line it was. No doubt
by now, more than a week
later, they have forgotten
the secret,

the line, the name of
the poem. I love them
for finding what
I can’t find,

and for loving me
for the line I wrote,
and for forgetting it
so that

a thousand times, till death
finds them, they may
discover it again, in other
lines

in other
happenings. And for
wanting to know it,
for

assuming there is
such a secret, yes,
for that
most of all.

-- Denise Levertov

Comments

[archangelbeth]

That brown and gold is lovely. (They may not be my colors, generally, but they're my mom's, so I recognize a nifty. O:> )

*admires the purple, too*

[incandescens]

(bows) Thank you very much indeed!

[helliongoddess.livejournal.com]

Your quilts and jewelry both are quite lovely! I wish I had more money, I would buy something! Someday..... *browses wistfully*

[incandescens]

I appreciate the thought. :) Thank you!

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

I have a sneaking suspicion Mama Thames isn't quite aware that she *isn't* the Queen, or that the Queen isn't her. Possibly merely a matter of semantics.

[incandescens]

Certainly the monarch of all that is within her perception, yes...