Alive

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File:Lady Meutas.jpgwhat a wonderful world, full of smells and sounds and sights, and wonders beyond reckoning.

Let's rejoice in our perception of our lives.

that we are creatures of this world, alive today, fresh with wonder, wild with pain, breathing.

tomorrow, who knows....





=Sketch by Hans Holbein the Younger of Lady Meutas, made about 1536, black and coloured chalks on pink prepared paper, from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lady_Meutas.jpg

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  1. olenskaJanuary 15, 2012 at 11:28 AM

    Hello, hello!

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  2. Doc EllyJanuary 15, 2012 at 2:50 PM

    Well, well, well! Welcome back to the blogosphere! It's good to see that you're still alive and well and sniffing. How's the thesis coming along?

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  3. BellatrixJanuary 15, 2012 at 2:56 PM

    helloooooooooo :)

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  4. OperaFanJanuary 15, 2012 at 3:40 PM

    Nice to see you're back!
    a:)

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  5. InesJanuary 16, 2012 at 8:37 AM

    OMG!
    Finally! :)
    Does this mean you're back for regular (I hope it does). :)

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  6. La Bonne VivanteJanuary 16, 2012 at 11:13 AM

    HI Everyone! Wow, I didn't think you would all be here after my long defection. Now I need to try to get back into it--I remember some great times in the blogosphere. I hope you are all well and happy. I have ben busy since I left the fold--got my PhD, got a job, moved to Maine. It has been an insane whirlwind. Well, much love to all of you, and I will see if I can get my smelly mind going again

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  7. mals86January 27, 2012 at 3:24 PM

    Have missed you! Hope to see more here at some point in the future. (Congrats on the PhD and the job...)

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  8. CarolFebruary 9, 2012 at 4:03 PM

    whoo hooo!!! So glad you're back - you've been missed!!

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  9. DulcinaJune 5, 2012 at 6:26 PM

    I was lucky today finding your nice garden from mine.
    Thanks for sharing all this beauty.
    I will return.
    Dulcina
    :)

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  10. canvas prints by mohkaJuly 6, 2012 at 4:51 AM

    Well that was interesting, glad you're back!

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  11. AnonymousNovember 29, 2014 at 1:16 AM

    goood

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  12. AnonymousMarch 31, 2015 at 10:37 AM

    This secret garden of yours is wonderful indeed! Wouldn't you consider bringing it back? I'm a mediavalist too and I've never gained more pleasure from any other perfume blog. Oh yes, and trying to keep some form of work/life balance, as they say, isn't easy...

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