February Blue Skies. What a relish for life a blue sky can give me. These things I adore; the feeling of Life breaking into the world, having some Me time for a few hours, Blue Tits in the garden, seeing last year's Hops glowing like gold in the sun.
I've just had an enjoyable hour reading the letters of Lady Mary Wortley-Montagu. Such a self possessed woman. That she was so, may have been in part due to her aristocratic background however, her pursuit of knowledge, combined with the very intimate and direct manner in which she recounts her journeys: one develops a sense that this was a remarkable woman.
As her husband's companion in diplomatic duties she also manged to visit the Harem in Constantinople as to arrange for the conversion of Turkish poetry, which she immediately identified as similar to Scripture.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu : Her Letters
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