In case you are awake, I don’t think Lucy will have seen my message . . gently wake her (text message on the death of her father)
Spare time / Loose change / Heavy weather
In vitro = in glass
‘I’m smart enough to know I’m dumb and can easily live with doubt, uncertainty and not knowing.’ Richard Feynman
‘She suddenly thought one afternoon, when looking in the glass at her fairness, that there was yet another date, of greater importance to her than those; that of her own death, when all these charms would have disappeared; a day which lay sly and unseen and among all the other days of the year, giving no sign or sound when she annually passed over it; but not the less surely there. When was it? Why did she not feel the chill of each yearly encounter with such a cold relation?’ Tess of the D’Urbervilles
2025 forecast - ‘good becoming poor later’ / ‘good occasionally poor’ / ‘showers good’ / ‘996 rising more slowly’
My caught phlegm echoes my late father’s morning cough. I warmly hear him in my chest, after all of these years.
Struth
‘A bright crimson bird, wingless, like the Penguin, but perfect in proportions, and of most exquisite beauty; its downy plumage brilliantly bright; its six perfect bird-legs, three set on either side... Then there are five white delicate toes, more like a fair lady's fingers, to each foot... and a beak like that of the great war eagle - all harmonious, but strange...’ An 1867 description of a mite glimpsed through a microscope
