Areopagus Volume XXXVI

Seven short lessons every someday.

Welcome one and all to the thirty sixth volume of the Areopagus. My grandmother's lifelong interest in poetry and music is part of what inspired me to start writing this newsletter. It was a year ago this week that she died, and so today's volume is dedicated to her.

One of the poems she quoted most often was by the little known Welsh poet W.H. Davies. Little known, that is, apart from Leisure. Here are its opening lines:

What is this life, if full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?

Famous words, but famous for a reason. And now we shall do a little standing and staring of our own...