1 Wislawa Szymborska, Polish poet and Nobel prizewinner, died on 1st February 2012 and The Guardian printed this poem of hers which I find very beautiful.
A miracle (what else can you call it):
the sun rose today at three fourteen
a.m.
and will set tonight at one past eight
A miracle that’s lost on us:
the hand actually has fewer than six
fingers
but still it’s got more than four.
A miracle, just take a look around:
the inescapable earth.
An extra miracle, extra and ordinary:
the unthinkable
can be thought.
(translated into English by Stanisław Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh)
Wislawa Szymborska in 2010. Photograph: Jacek Turczyk/EPA
2 Had another enquiry about a wedding, this one a recommendation from a couple whose wedding I did a couple of years ago which is very pleasing.
3 Singing with the Inglehearts. Tonight we rehearsed ‘Here, There and Everywhere’ by the Beatles in an arrangement by Claire and it felt good!
