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A long while ago, I heard of an old Japanese tradition which associates the colour purple with the seventies, and endorses it as appropriate for wearing by people in that venerable age group. Then, when I turned seventy, I joined the Red Hat Society, founded in the USA in 1997 as 'the place where there is fun over fifty'. This society takes for its motto, so to speak, a poem called 'Warning', by the UK poet Jenny Joseph (1932-). The first verse of 'Warning' begins thus: When I am an old woman I shall wear purple With a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me. And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter. I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired … And make up for the sobriety of my youth! A nice synchronicity between East and West, isn't it? Loving the colour purple, I quite often wear it, not just to Red Hat Society functions. I was born in 1941, and most of the tanka in this book have been written and published during my 'purple years'.
Autorius: | Amelia Fielden |
Leidėjas: | Ginninderra Press |
Išleidimo metai: | 2018 |
Knygos puslapių skaičius: | 322 |
ISBN-10: | 1760415596 |
ISBN-13: | 9781760415594 |
Formatas: | 198 x 129 x 17 mm. Knyga minkštu viršeliu |
Kalba: | Anglų |
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