a character note

I believe I may have incipient flu. Oh well. I will dose myself and be glad it's almost the weekend.

It's getting colder again.

Made a couple of pairs of earrings this evening, while trying to sort out my bead stash. I think I may need to get a couple more storage boxes. (Small ones. Really. I just can't stand not having it sorted.)

(Yes, this is true about me in so many other things too.)

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Alzuna

The forest of Alzuna hides a pool.
Beside that pool, a shadowy tree up-towers.
High on that tree, a bough most beautiful
Bends with the fragrant burden of its flowers.
Among those flowers a nest is buried deep.
Warm in that nest, there lies a freckled shell.
Packed in that shell, a bird is fast asleep.
This is the incantation and the spell.


For, when the north wind blows, the bird will cry,
“Warm in my freckled shell, I lie asleep.
The freckled shell is in the nest on high.
The nest among the flowers is buried deep.
The flowers are on a bough most beautiful.
The bough is on a tree no axe can fell.
The sky is at its feet in yonder pool.
This is the incantation and the spell!”

-- Alfred Noyes