A Postcard A Day - Friday 14 February 2025 - Friday Smiles

Hello lovely girls! How are you all? Happy Valentine's Day!

Any smiles this week? Of course! There is always a silver lining.

I have had lots to smile about this week. But more of that later. Let me show you my postcard for this week:

 It came to me from Germany. It was sent by Teresa, who is Czech but lives in Germany. The quote "Do I dare disturb the universe?" is from a poem by T.S.Eliot.

Thomas Stearns Eliot OM (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was a poet, essayist and playwright.

The poem is called:

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Here is an excerpt:

And indeed there will be time

To wonder, “Do I dare?” and, “Do I dare?”

Time to turn back and descend the stair,

With a bald spot in the middle of my hair —

(They will say: “How his hair is growing thin!”)

My morning coat, my collar mounting firmly to the chin,

My necktie rich and modest, but asserted by a simple pin —

(They will say: “But how his arms and legs are thin!”)

Do I dare

Disturb the universe?

In a minute there is time

For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

Wikipedia writes: 

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is the first professionally published poem by the American-born British poet T. S. Eliot (1888–1965). The poem relates the varying thoughts of its title character in a stream of consciousness. Eliot began writing the poem in February 1910, and it was first published in the June 1915 issue of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse at the instigation of fellow American expatriate Ezra Pound.

More from Wikipedia on T.S.Eliot: 

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a prominent Boston Brahmin family, T.S.Eliot moved to England in 1914 at the age of 25 and went on to settle, work, and marry there. He became a British subject in 1927 at the age of 39 and renounced his American citizenship.

The stamp is the usual Europe stamp with the baby goats:

So much for my card. What have I been up to here in southern Spain?

As you might have read on my Tuesday blog, I have been to Almería for the day on Sunday.

A group of us from the Photo club went to see an exhibition of photographer Louis Stettner:

Here we are outside the photo museum (where the exhibition was):

We enjoyed long walks along the boulevard (in the sun) and had drinks and later a meal.

There is a fun shop called Ale Hop in Almería. It sells funky accessories. My grandson in Italy asked me to buy a certain type of headphones there. Unfortunately what he wanted had sold out. So I photographed the entire selection and let him choose. This is what he chose:

I will put it in my suitcase and he will get it when I go to Italy in April.

That is all from me today. Of course I will share some funnies at the end and now I shall link up with Annie at A Stitch In Time for more smiles. See you there!

Enjoy your weekend,

Lisca