Saturday 20 December 2014

BIRDS, FEATHERS & LOVELY POST

Some people are just lovely. You know they are lovely when you meet them and you keep in touch a little, though they move from exotic location to exotic location. But you keep in touch, following each other on FB etc. One such person is Samantha Ryan - I hope she doesn't mind me yapping about her but she is lovely in many ways.

Yesterday she sent me a review of Joely Richardson as Emily Dickinson that she had seen in an English newspaper and thought I might like (I do!). Tucked in with the paper was this card (image by Rosanna Parry):


How did Sam know I love birds?

When I opened the card I found a sweet message and this, my favourite Emily Dickinson poem - "Hope" is the thing with feathers - hand written.


And a feather. And a message about the feather: 'A feather from Cambridge - a bird that's perched on, and flown above, 500 year-old turrets of stone.'

Both card and feather now reside in the Emily Dickinson box above my desk, with other bits of Dickinsonalia and various related charms.



Thank you, Sam - you are truly lovely. Like many of the people I meet through writing, as it happens. I hope you all have a magical, creative, successful and prosperous 2015.

4 comments:

Donna OShaughnessy said...

Love your Emily Dickinson box, so creative. Perhaps I'll do one for Poe who I love so much. But I'll have to keep it hidden, it's contents may very well frighten my Grandkids.

Group 8 said...

Oh a Poe-box would be so cool! Throbbing hearts, evil eyes, creepy cats and ravens.

Emily said...

You deserve every bit of niceness :)

Group 8 said...

Aw, thanks, Ems. Have a great day today, see you tomorrow. N x