The music of March: The many health benefits of music | Laura Pride
Laura Pride My father was often impatient during March, waiting for winter to end, the cold to ease, the sun to reappear. March was an unpredictable month, when it was never clear what might happen. Warm days raised hopes until ice and grey skies shut over the town again. Tracy Chevalier
I feel like this quote can be a metaphor for the COVID-19 crisis.
Here we are waiting for winter (COVID lockdowns etc.) to end. We’re waiting for the sun (the big exhale; vaccinations, financial relief) to reappear.
Girl With a Pearl Earring is a quiet movie, shaken from time to time by ripples of emotional turbulence far beneath the surface. It is about things not said, opportunities not taken, potentials not realized, lips unkissed. All of these elements are guessed at by the filmmakers as they regard a painting made in about 1665 by Johannes Vermeer. The painting shows a young woman regarding us over her left shoulder. She wears a simple blue headband and a modest smock. Her red lips are slightly parted. Is she smiling? She seems to be glancing back at the moment she was leaving the room. She wears a pearl earring.
Well, it’s been a year since last Sunday.
But I come to you my friends with the one constant in this chaotic world of ours: Books.
And one thing that always brightens my world and fills my heart: getting your lists. My inbox runneth over.
Each year, I challenge SouthCoast BookLovers to read 100 books in a year to make my BookLovers Century Club. Reading 25-49 books would qualify you for the Quarter-Century Club, and 50-99 books, the Half-Century Club. (Yes, audiobooks count.)
We’ve broken our own record for 8 years now, and I’m thrilled to announce that once again, we have a record year. You are all the best part of 2020.
THE Queen has sent a message of good wishes to the Friends of Winchester Cathedral as it celebrates its 90th anniversary this year. The organisation was set up in 1931 by the then Dean of Winchester, Gordon Selwyn, to provide financial support to the cathedral. Two of the Friends’ earliest projects were the restoration of the St Swithun’s Gate into the Cathedral Close and support for the embroidery of over 100 kneelers and cushions. The work of the broderers and their connection with the Friends was the subject of Tracy Chevalier’s recent best-selling novel, A Single Thread. The Queen has been the Royal Patron of the Friends since her accession in 1953 and has taken a keen interest in their work. Three years ago, Her Majesty gave permission for Queen Elizabeth’s Winchester’ Carol to be commissioned in honour of her own 90th birthday: ahead of its première in the cathedral, she asked to hear a recording which was sent to Buckingham Palace.
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