“Language thou art too narrow, and too weak To ease us now; great sorrow cannot speak.” Words attributed to John Donne around 1617, which I found yesterday in the used…
Today was a tour of forgotten little churches in the farming valley of the Allier River. I was inspired by a YouTube video I saw months ago, that I vaguely…
Chartres cathedral doesn’t cast the spell it once did, it seems. Walking back from dinner I was taken aback that the glory of the Almighty needs a cheap boost from…
He was a real stallion, painted life-sized in 1762 by George Stubbs. At that time, a form called “heroic couplets” was the most popular for poetry, thus in them my…
