Four Hours of Serene Harmonies: Your Escape to Calm

Sir Frankie Crisp and my fish find this music as charming as I do. The artwork is lovely too. It reminds me of Tangerine Dream.

The Decameron | Official Trailer | Netflix

The Black Death & The Great Courses II

 Still at The Great Courses, The Black Death. Made it to episode seven. It's getting better. Was it the wine or the corn chowder? No. Now, she's going city by city. They're showing pictures instead of just the teacher: buildings, coins... She is giving first hand accounts. Of course, she is saying that the first hand accounts aren't factual or literal as if I'd trust some interpretation seven hundred years later more. But, hey, it's picking up, and I try to stay positive. 💖💀💖

Plague & The Great Courses

 Free Great Courses again this week. Glad to have gotten a break from all the proud 💩, I'm not proud. Last time we had this channel for free I'd shut off The Black Death after the first episode in a rage because the woman continuously compared it to CONVID. No comparison, did not buy it. Anyways, I was very down today so picked up with episode two. I'm now on episode four, I think; and so far she has not mentioned CONVID again, but has said some other strange things that has a common sense Plague scholar like myself thinking, (which hasn't been outlawed yet, or has it?) Anyways, first, she questioned what the "P" mark in medieval manuscripts referring to plague deaths meant. She talked about pimples and particulars, but according to Kelly in The Great Mortality, by far my favorite book on the subject, and again in Ken Follett's awesome epic World Without End, they never actually mentioned "plague" until hundreds of years later. The people of The Middle Ages referred to it as The Pestilence, so I'd think P stood for that. She was getting ridiculous again, but she's only an English teacher, like me, not an expert like Fauci, (🤣Arrest Fauci🤣), but she said they thought AIDS came from people eating monkeys. It was monkey business, alright, how about some horse sense that you won't hear about? She wondered about the fleas and rats because the outbreaks were much worse in the summer then would die out in winter, where if the fleas and rats were responsible, then it should have had the opposite effect. I won't knock anybody's sense of wonder, but it makes sense that other insects like mosquitoes and ticks were also responsible for carrying the disease as well as fleas, a lot more sense than the gerbils, (I can't make this stuff up), that she was talking about when I shut her off again. 😂💀😂

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Old-fashioned Herb Garden

I want an old-fashioned herb garden like Joanna Furnace has. I've been working on it in small patches over the years having read a book from The Met about medieval monks and cloister gardens like in The Lady and the Unicorn tapestry. I have lavender, woad, soapwort, and have planted other things such as sage and thyme, but I want to plant a raised garden like this. I want to fill it with useful things. 

 

Dreams 9/19

 Dreamt I was  staying in a small boarding house in an old town with a strange man with sandy hair. I had my coffee pot there and when got up in the morning the stranger was gone along with my coffee pot. Then, I had to wander about the town looking for a way home. There was an octangular buliding that was plastered with what seemed to be small concert posters. It was a lot wider than high, I think it was an old station house for ticket sales. I went in to use the restroom which was dark with an oiled wooden floor and a small green and gold stained glass window. There was a young blonde girl in there with me, and she led me into the next dream that I'll call, Medieval Days. 

I was teaching at school, my students were adults, and we were leaving for Medieval Days. Daddy was there, and there were other old teachers on the crowded bus with us. First stop was a dusky old wooden tavern. We started with a round of drinks and appetizers at my suggestion. I was smoking with the same blonde girl as before, then, we were back on the bus, rolling along. 

Medieval Fantasy Tavern | D&D Fantasy Music and Ambience

Baking a cake... 

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