5/25: having thoughts

...about Sappho, about Clytie, about Pegasus and Bellerophon.  Of course I have thoughts throughout the school year, as I'm preparing for and teaching my classes.  But it's different to have ideas more on my own schedule and less directly connected to courses.

5/24: hearing

...a whippoorwill.  Chris was sitting on the porch and came to get me when he heard it.  It was loud and close and made me happy.

5/23: Sappho & Clytie

This morning I was thinking about Anya Leonard's Sappho: The Lost Poetess, a picturebook presentation of Sappho that is intriguingly problematic.  I kind of can't stop thinking about it, as if it's a puzzle I need to solve.  

This evening I tracked down the textual source for a recording of the story of Clytie that I loved as a child; it's from Flora J. Cooke's expanded (1919/1922) edition of Nature Myths and Stories. (The story was included, without citation, on a Disney record narrated by Rica Moore, which I wrote about back in September 2017.)

5/22: on their way home

There's only an hour and a half left in the day, but before it ends Chris and Tilde will be back from the after-hours animal clinic in Little Rock.  (It sounds like tests show that Tilde has a UTI, so of all the things it could have been, that seems manageable.)

5/21: driving

...to Little Rock this morning to drop a friend off at the airport.  It's not far (40 miles each way), but these days I rarely do more than drive around town, so it felt good to be on the road.

5/20: finding

...a small Lego block that was missing from Celery, a Lego horse I found years ago, abandoned in a parking lot.  Celery now lives in my car, and somehow the small piece got knocked out.  I must have found it in the past and put it in a "I'll put it here so I don't forget it" place, and then I forgot it.

5/19: mending

...a library book that came apart in my hands.  I could tell that it had already been mended once but with a kind of glue that didn't bond with the paper, so it just popped apart.  I'm hoping that my fix lasts longer.

5/18: reformatting

...my cv.  It's been in need of an overhaul--for a cleaner look--for quite some time.  And now it has one.