Browsing ktravula – a travelogue! blog archives for the day Saturday, December 19th, 2009.
In the dark corner of the hall,
perhaps forgotten by her mistress,
silent and dusty,
laid the harp.
So many notes slept in her strings,
as the songbird sleeps in the branches,
waiting for the snowy hand
that knows how to awake them!
Alas! – I thought – how often does genius
likewise sleep in the deepest of the heart,
and a voice, like Lazarus, awaits
to be told “Rise and walk!
Poem by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
and Clarissa, my Amigo Secreto.
NOTE: The game ended yesterday.
These are photos from the Bella Milano Christmas office lunch on Friday, and the subsequent send-forth party for Audrey, our French friend at Mafoya’s apartment at Cougar Village later in the evening. Audrey had come to the United States on a programme that requires her to spend only one semester and return home to complete her studies.
As per the lunch, I’d be the first to admit that there are more women in my department than men. We are too far outnumbered.