Very busy at work today–tasks left over from yesterday plus a new shipment to process. To quote my boss, “YUCK!”
On the plus side, I have a copy of Rilke’s Duino Elegies, as translated by Edward Snow, and three pre-programmed Christmas stations on Pandora. I was amazed by Rilke’s New Poems and wowed by his Sonnets to Orpheus, but I think the Elegies are going to be a whole new level of awesome. And you can’t beat hearing “Winter Wonderland” sung by Louis Armstrong and then a totally different performance of the same song by Ella Fitzgerald. However, no one may sing “Santa Baby” except Eartha Kitt, who makes all other performances unnecessary.
If the weather hereabouts were only cold enough, we’d be having a lot of snow right now, instead of endless rain. The urban druid is feeling challenged in her love of nature by the sheer dismal outside. Good thing I brought my lunch.
