The Fall of Icarus: the ingenious wing

The great engineer and artisan, the Athenian Daedalus, made wings for Daedalus, his son, so that both could escape from the Island of Crete. The wings were ingeniously constructed with feathers and wax and possibly more materials. Warning his son not to fly upwards past the moon and near the sun, because the wax would melt, Daedalus set forth, but the joy of flying made him forget his father's warning. He did go ever higher and caused his own death. A catastrophe. He plummeted to earth. No one is certain whether it was in the ocean's waves or on earth. All that remains is the wing that Deadalus wrought.

fall fruit or genitalia

Old Love: when sharpness and separtion supplant

the sweetness of youthful ardor

what Virginia Woolf saw one afternoon in Gordon Square, London

The Pysche Bruised: one of many wounds

three points of view, three minds, at least: Wotton Hall

The noted diarist and author, the enlightened John Evelyn (31 October, 1620--27 February, 1706) resided at Wotton Hall, where he realized some of his garden designs. A champion of Nature as a restorative, he advocated vegetarianism, Evelyn also recognized its economic necessity for a political polity. Today Wotton is an hotel that hosts weddings and other events and occasional.

Then and Now

spring will return again, but it is a memory, blurred; it lacks the heat of the moment;. it is not a visceral experience, with the actuality of dryness or wetness, heat or piercing cold, and the sounds of one season are not the sounds of the other. 2009 is not 2010. each is unique to itself, yet the past promises what the future will bring, but with its own unique character.