when I was making a lot of mistakes in my archery class, the instructor told me this: “you are making mistakes because you are focusing on your target and not on your actions.” and that solved many of my life problems.

'Those Winter Sundays' by Robert Hayden

"Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand—and melting like a snowflake." ~ Francis Bacon Rays of Light in the Forest 🎨 Igor Sakharov

one of those poems that can make me weep or make me smile, depending.

L’étonnante similarité entre ce couple de l’église Saint-Pierre d’Aulnay (Charente-Maritime, vers 1120-1140) et le célèbre Baiser de Brancusi (1909)

Katherine Everitt 💥 That's the complete poem:

I don't think it was pain that made him so great, I think painting brought him whatever happiness he had. * RIP David Lynch

Spare a thought for Nigel Huddleston, Tory chairman sent out to clear up Kemi Badenoch's triple lock mess. On Times Radio, he was asked: "Can we afford the triple lock." Huddleston said: "Over the long term, that is exactly the sort of thing we're looking at." Er ...

🚨 If they ever get back in, your pensions goes 🚨

The FTSE 100 has just surpassed it's highest ever intra-day value. Well done Rachel Reeves, Darren Jones and everyone else in government. I look forward to it being prominently reported on the BBC News website and Sky News will surely be covering it. #bbcnews #skynews

I don't understand what Kemi Badenoch thinks she's doing here. It's political suicide. Her party won't allow it. So why float it.

Writing on Housman today. This from The Times in 1936 is just wondering

NEW: The Lib Dems launch a new attack ad on Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch A good week for the party

Kemi Badenoch says she is excited about cutting the state pension 👇

Kemi is in a hole and still busy with the shovel.

"I never have to clarify". Let's see how that plays out with the triple-lock interview...

NEWS: The UK is forecast to be the fastest growing major European economy over the next two years and the only G7 economy, apart from the US, to have its growth forecast upgraded for this year, says IMF.

NEW IMF bumps up UK forecast by 0.1%, so making UK forecast fastest growing European G7 member for next 2 years [Spain faster] big news tho is big ⬆️ to US under Biden & warning Trumponomics tariffs & tax “potentially weakening role of US Treasuries as the global safe asset..”

This + Augustine’s Confessions = the reading for Tulsa’s honors course “The Long Middle Ages” that I’m teaching this semester.