Motus Mentis

Ah, this world… I’d hoped I might have had something original, or at least interesting, to say in the few days since my last, rather apologetic post — but it’s Spring, and the lovely Nina and I haven’t gone anywhere since March of 2020, so on an impulse we are heading South for just a few days: down to Savannah, Georgia, which we’ve heard is a delightful spot, and have never visited. (Our last trip — in the final days of that earlier age of the world, just before the Wuhan Red Death changed everything forever — was to Charleston, South Carolina, which is said to vie with Savannah for the title of “Most Charming Southern City”, and we’d like to judge the contest for ourselves.) Also, I’ll be turning sixty-six on Wednesday, and having just lost a stubborn thirty-one pounds, I thought it might be a fine thing just to stroll around in some of the nicer things I haven’t worn for a while that suddenly fit me well again, with a pretty lady on my arm.

We’ll be back home by the weekend, and perhaps I’ll have thought of something worth saying by then, or maybe not. In the meantime, for your education and amusement, I will promote to the front page (with a grateful hat-tip to our reader ‘mharko”) this fine collection of the aphorisms of Don Colacho, a very wise and worldly fellow indeed.

Thanks as always for coming round, and although things are dark and uncertain, I hope you are all keeping your spirits up. Dum spiro spero! This isn’t over yet.