better late than never

[adelaidesean]

Happy 125th birthday, Sir Douglas Mawson, explorer, scientist, and educator. He was born on May 5 in Yorkshire, was a pioneer of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, and now graces the Australian $100 bill. He died in 1958.

The 1914 portrait below was one on which I based Mawson, an irascible talking stone bust from the Books of the Change/Cataclysm. Although my Mawson's character bears no relation to the real Mawson, I nonetheless intended it as a kind of tribute, since the great man spent a lot of time in the Flinders Ranges, one of my favourite places in the whole world. I hope he wouldn't mind.

Comments

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday for whenever the date is, spring chicken. I'm 41 at the end of June.....

And 41 is an improvement on 21. xcept for the arthritis and a few other things.

I never saw TR2. Or TR1, and possibly never will unless tied to a chair and forcable made to watch it.

So are you bringing Amanda to Sydney, is it part of the honeymoon, or is that later?

My to-read pile is beside the bed, under the bed, on the bedside table an a few other places about the house.

[ladnews.livejournal.com]

The birthday is on the 23rd. I totally agree about about life near 40 vs life in my 20s. I spent most of that decade confused and fairly panicky. I'm very glad that phase has passed.

Amanda will come to Sydney for a couple of days (kinda like an early honeymoon) but will have to go back to work by the time my sessions start. That's probably for the best, as she's heard most of my rants many, many times over by now. :-)