The sun came out and we scrabbled in it:
Much music practice has been taking place – I love the sound of the piano through the house:
Made some candles – I used to make them quite a lot in the past, felt nice to be doing that again… it’s a peaceful craft.
Watched Dead Poets Society yesterday… think I have avoided watching it in the past because of some vague idea it would be boring – it wasn’t. Great stuff there about education, parenting and Carpe Diem! Snatches of poetry too of course. Linking in with that, in the last week I’ve come across William Blake’s The Schoolboy three times. Once on Paula’s blog where it’s put to photos and music but had to put it here too :) :
The Schoolboy by William Blake
I love to rise in a summer morn
When the birds sing on every tree;
The distant huntsman winds his horn,
And the skylark sings with me.
O! what sweet company!
O! it drives all joy away;
Under a cruel eye outworn,
The little ones spend the day
In sighing and dismay.
Ah! then at times I drooping sit,
And spend many an anxious hour,
Nor in my book can I take delight,
Nor sit in learning’s bower,
Worn thro’ with the dreary shower.
How can the bird that is born for joy
Sit in a cage and sing?
How can a child, when fears annoy,
But droop his tender wing,
And forget his youthful spring?
O! father and mother, if buds are nipped
And blossoms blown away,
And if the tender plants are stripped
Of their joy in the springing day,
By sorrow and care’s dismay,
How shall the summer arise in joy,
Or the summer’s fruits appear?
Or how shall we gather what griefs destroy,
Or bless the mellowing year,
When the blasts of winter appear?
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