Beginnings and Endings
New Year, New Blog I set up this blog a year or so ago, but what with one thing and another (mostly writing two novellas) I never got round to doing anything with it. Having been linked to academic institutions most of my life I always feel the year starts in September rather than January, April 5th or Advent Sunday, a view reinforced by the time I spend in France where this is the Rentrée, when not just schools and universities but most social organisations start a new year of activities. Therefore now seems a good time to make a start with my blog. There is a nice paradox in marking a new beginning when the leaves are starting to turn and nature is beginning to shut down for the winter. Whilst she was imprisoned Mary Queen of Scots embroidered the words "En ma Fin gît mon Commencement..."- In my End is my Beginning… ; a phrase T S Eliot in Four Quartets, a set of poems all about beginnings and ends, turned round:. What we call the beginning is...