And so to bed..

And so to bed..

And so to bed... quote for tonight is from W.H. Auden:

Look, stranger, on this island now

The leaping light for your delight discovers,

Stand stable here

And silent be,

That through the channels of the ear

May wander like a river

The swaying sound of the sea.

And so to bed... quote for tonight is from Vera Nazarian:

The sand in the hourglass runs from one compartment to the other, marking the passage of moments with something constant and tangible.

If you watch the flowing sand, you might see time itself riding the granules.

Contrary to popular opinion, time is not an old white-haired man, but a laughing child.

And time sings.

And so to bed... quote for tonight is from Caitlín Matthews:

Mother of our mothers,

Foremothers strong,

Guide our hands in yours,

Remind us how

To kindle the hearth,

To keep it bright,

To preserve the flame.

Your hands upon ours,

Our hands within yours,

To kindle the light,

Both day and night.

And so to bed... quote for tonight is from Immanuel Kant:

Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

And so to bed... quote for tonight is from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:

Midnight! the outpost of advancing day!

The frontier town and citadel of night!

The watershed of Time, from which the streams

Of Yesterday and To-morrow take their way,

One to the land of promise and of light,

One to the land of darkness and of dreams!

And so to bed... quote for tonight is by Elizabeth Bishop:

It was cold and windy, scarcely the day

to take a walk on that long beach

Everything was withdrawn as far as possible,

indrawn: the tide far out, the ocean shrunken,

seabirds in ones or twos.

The rackety, icy, offshore wind

numbed our faces on one side;

disrupted the formation

of a lone flight of Canada geese;

and blew back the low, inaudible rollers

in upright, steely mist.

And so to bed... quote for tonight is from Omar Khayyám:

Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring

The Winter Garment of Repentance fling:

The Bird of Time has but a little way

To fly--and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing.

And so to bed.. quote for tonight is from Hilary Mantel:

What is the nature of the border between truth and lies? It is permeable and blurred because it is planted thick with rumour, confabulation, misunderstandings and twisted tales. Truth can break the gates down, truth can howl in the street; unless truth is pleasing, personable and easy to like, she is condemned to stay whimpering at the back door.

And so to bed.. quote for tonight come from Seneca the Younger:

Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.