quote of the day

Posted on January 11, 2008November 24, 2017by Laurie MacFayden

This heart, I know,
To be long loved was never framed,
For something in its depths doth glow
Too strange, too restless, too untamed.

— Matthew Arnold, A Farewell

About Spatherdab

Spatherdab is an obscure, almost forgotten, old english word meaning chatterer, gossip, scandal-monger; “a woman who goes from house to house dispensing news.”

Since I spent more than 30 years as a sports journalist whose pressbox chatter was dispensed house to house (thanks to another obscure, mostly obsolete entity, the newspaper carrier); and since I use this space for chatter, gossip and scandal-mongering — not to mention rants, limericks, scathing observations, and anything else that explodes out of my curmudgeonly cranium — it seems a more than fitting handle.

For the past 10 years my Spatherdab blog existed as a stand-alone WordPress entity. Now it’s part of my newly-renovated lauriemacfayden.com website. It will continue to house pretty much anything that doesn’t fit under the main categories of Art and Writing.

This heart, I know, To be long loved was never framed, For something in its depths doth glow Too strange, too restless, too untamed.

— Matthew Arnold, A Farewell

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This heart, I know,
To be long loved was never framed,
For something in its depths doth glow
Too strange, too restless, too untamed.