Sunday. It is a work day really. When I don't have a concert to perform. Or a play to attend. It is nice to plan a little time out if possible but one always knows that Sunday precedes Monday which is a teaching day and so there is always going to be preparation to do. (And not just for Monday, just in case, dear reader, you though I just lounge around for the rest of the week, an educator's work is never done.)
There are chores by the scores. The washing, the dusting, the cleaning, the sweeping. Get it all done, get it all done so the work can begin. I had the camera out in between washing loads. I spotted a couple of red dragonflies flitting around but they weren't for the capturing.
The roses were though, in the morning sun. And I have to say, having done so once or twice before, there is something of a kind of beauty in the old rose. Perhaps I'm looking too hard for similes for life...'my life is like a rose, once rich and full of promise and now...'
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| The old and the new |
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| Fading beauty |
But enough of that. After drafting a couple of conference abstracts, reading Arendt (yes, more) and on the verge of turning to tomorrow's lectures (which I will now do later), a friend rang with a tempting invite to see an animation of the Book of Kells. It was indeed excellent. Just enough distraction to give me time to think more about the lectures. Indeed, there was one scene where the illuminators begged the abbot to return to the riches of learning, of the books rather than build a fortress-like wall which was sucking the life out of the village and would fail to resist the forces for which it was being constructed...or somesuch. I hope university managers took note.
Our latest dinosaur is up and running too, now with moving parts and vocals...it is going to give our whales across the way a bit of a run for their money. And who could resist a dinosaur pic. I think it won't be the last. One sees a reflection of oneself, not in a dying rose, but in a dinosaur perhaps.
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| Not Godzilla, but close |
But enough of the simile, there is work to be done and a full week ahead.
[Camera : Canon EOS 60D, 70-300mm, 10.14am, 10.15am, 28-80mm, 5.31pm]
