Comfort Reading

 

Rankin Rebus

 

Ian Rankin, like any good authors, knows things worth sharing.

IDENTIKIT

"Pukwudji, that's the name -- the trickster -- I wanted to remember!"

Time for a rereading:

Charles de Lint's MOONHEART.

Photo:

Medieval/Renaissance and Classical texts, Moonheart,

class props, and clay friends.

Book, Glass, and Cat

 

Adam Nicolson's "Sea Room";

Bushmill's

Lady.

Comfort Food

 

Pork cutlets and vegetables in a stew.

My mother's favorite double-base pan.

Good memories every time.

Roll Call: Morning

 

Luck Conspired With Fire Here

 

Pit-fired mermaid.

First pit-fired experience, ages ago.

Ocean Beach, SF.

Whisky with Lady and My Favorite Book

 

Edradour, which sounds Hobbitish, don't you think?

Hail, Thorin Oakenshield, Bilbo Baggins, Captain Brandybuck, and Thorfinn the Mighty.

Lady and Tinker

 

Shakespeare: Cool

 

Doodle 1988: Ragnar the Bold

 

Ragnar the Bold looking up at you from my "Beowulf" notebook (one of two).

Ottar Naked Smiling Swam

 

Ottar naked smiling swam

Into the mere knife in hand.

-- from an old poem

I taught "Beowulf" and had a swim today.

I don't know why the lifeguard threw me out . . . .