Today's posts

Today’s poem is ‘How much?’   What is the value of art? The pleasure it gives cannot be quantified, thank goodness. The satisfaction gained from reading ‘Jane Eyre’ or ‘Bleak House’ is endless.  But monetary value is different. Some paintings are sold for immense sums, but who has not visited an exhibition and thought, when looking at some expensive abstract painting, ‘Well, I could do better than that!’ And what about poetry? There is no market for it, I’m afraid. Perhaps a penny for a poem?

 

Today’s letter from my terrace is ‘The Present is a Gift’.  It all started when correcting a student’s composition.

Finally, Christmas is here once more, and so I have posted ‘Christmas in Brittany’ from ‘Dorigen’. If you want to read the rest of the poem you can find the first part on the blog in Archive under January 2018. To get to Archive click on the four horizontal lines at the top left of the front page that has the photo.