Charlotte Conradsen

Avid reader with eclectic taste, linguaphile, accumulator of knowledge, professor, amateur human

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

"The secret of being happy consists of knowing how to enjoy yourself—enjoy being at table, in bed; enjoy standing up, sitting down; enjoy the nearest ray of sunshine, the slightest bit of landscape. In other words, love everything."
~ Gustave Flaubert

🎨 Henri Matisse

[Basho Society @BashoSociety]

We read to survive the world as it is.
We read to imagine the world as it could be.
We read because language opens a house where the self returns to wholeness.

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

January has been a hell of a year.

[Jesper Møller Sørensen 🇩🇰 @DKambUSA]

After 9/11, the U.S. called. Denmark answered. Thousands of Danish troops served in Helmand—on the front line. We lost more soldiers per capita than even the United States. That was solidarity. We stood with America then—and we still do.

I witnessed our brave men & women during my 1,5 years in Afghanistan.

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

W.S. Merwin with a beautiful
poem for the day that it is.

[Charlotte Conradsen @MsConradsen]

@batonman09 I wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Christmas greetings from Denmark ❄️🎄☃️🎁🎅

[Charlotte Conradsen @MsConradsen]

@D_NewtonSmith Kære Diana Jeg håber, du og din familie får en rigtig god jul og et godt nytår. Særlig sender jeg varme tanker til Natalie, Garett og Magic. Jeg håber alt står vel til. Knus fra Danmark.❄️🎄☃️🎁🎅

[Charlotte Conradsen @MsConradsen]

Happy Winter Solstice! Longer, brighter days ahead. #wintersolstice

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

"Do not interrupt the flight of your soul; do not distress what is best in you; do not enfeeble your spirit with half wishes and half thoughts. Ask yourself and keep on asking until you find the answer."
~ Søren Kierkegaard

Winter, near Saint-Siméon
🎨 Claude Monet (1867)

[Charlotte Conradsen @MsConradsen]

Happy Lucia Day! Soon darkness will take flight. #happyluciaday #sanktalucia #saintlucy #luciaday #december

[Charlotte Conradsen @MsConradsen]

Thank you @TheLiveDrop and @valleymrk for this fun and fascinating interview with author Shawnna Morris about her new book on The Cambridge Five spy ring. Great conversation. Do have a listen 🎧
#CambridgeFive #spy #ColdWar
https://t.co/lLEDufth1i

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

• Robert Frost •

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

Søren Kierkegaard beseeching each and every one of us to just keep on walking.

"𝘼𝙗𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙖𝙡𝙡, 𝙙𝙤 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙬𝙖𝙡𝙠: 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙙𝙖𝙮 𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙡𝙠 𝙢𝙮𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙖 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙬𝙚𝙡𝙡-𝙗𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙖𝙡𝙠 𝙖𝙬𝙖𝙮 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨; 𝙄 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙡𝙠𝙚𝙙 𝙢𝙮𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙮 𝙗𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙄 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙤𝙛 𝙣𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙨𝙤 𝙗𝙪𝙧𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙡𝙠 𝙖𝙬𝙖𝙮 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙞𝙩. Even if one were to walk for one’s health and it were constantly one station ahead — 𝙄 𝙬𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙨𝙖𝙮: 𝙒𝙖𝙡𝙠! Besides, it is also apparent that in walking one constantly gets as close to well-being as possible, even if one does not quite reach it — 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙗𝙮 𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙨𝙩����𝙡𝙡, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙨 𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙡𝙡, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙡𝙡. Health and salvation can only be found in motion. If anyone denies that motion exists, I do as Diogenes did, I walk. If anyone denies that health resides in motion, then I walk away from all morbid objections. 𝙄𝙛 𝙤𝙣𝙚 ��𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙠𝙚𝙚𝙥𝙨 𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙖𝙡𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜, 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙗𝙚 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩."

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

"Autumn... the year's last, loveliest smile."
~ William C. Bryant

🎨 Camille Pissarro (1894)

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

Time for some poetry...

'September' by
Dorothy Lawrenson

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the Day is ‘snerdle’ (19th century): to lie warm and still beneath the covers for as long as humanly possible.

[M.M. Madrugada @madrugada_m]

Wir sind alle Blätter an einem Baum, keins
dem andern ähnlich, das eine symmetrisch,
das andere nicht, und doch alle gleich
wichtig dem Ganzen.

- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing -

[VeryBritishProblems @SoVeryBritish]

We are officially in the “ber” months.

It is my belief that tea and biscuits taste the best in these months.

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

• Edward Thomas •

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the Day is ‘theic’ (19th century), defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as ‘one given to immoderate tea-drinking; a tea drunkard’.