Four fascinating things

1. David's Ankles

"Destruction takes many forms, not just the sudden apocalyptic crash or the long-term degradation of rain and ice and wind. There is death by inaction, death by neglect. There is also death by reverence, death by ubiquity, death by subtle retail-shop humiliation...We knew the David so well, and our own knowledge of our knowledge of that image, that we could hardly see the David at all."

2. A beautiful performance about busyness (and many other things) by Acrojou - Frantic

3. Health (including how it relates to kindness and forgiveness of self)

4. Part of Maiden May by Christina Rossetti (italicised is the bit that just wrung out my heart like a ragged dish cloth):

Maiden May sat in her bower; 

Her own face was like a flower 

Of the prime, 

Half in sunshine, half in shower, 

In the year's most tender time. 

Her own thoughts in silent song 

Musically flowed along, 

Wise, unwise, 

Wistful, wondering, weak or strong: 

As brook shallows sink or rise. 

Other thoughts another day, 

Maiden May, will surge and sway 

Round your heart; 

Wake, and plead, and turn at bay, 

Wisdom part, and folly part. 

Time not far remote will borrow 

Other joys, another sorrow, 

All for you; 

Not to-day, and yet to-morrow 

Reasoning false and reasoning true. 

Wherefore greatest? Wherefore least? 

Hearts that starve and hearts that feast? 

You and I? 

Stammering Oracles have ceased, 

And the whole earth stands at ‘why?’ 

Underneath all things that be 

Lies an unsolved mystery; 

Over all 

Spreads a veil impenetrably, 

Spreads a dense unlifted pall. 

Mystery of mysteries: 

This creation hears and sees 

High and low - 

Vanity of vanities: 

This we test and this we know.