Here’s a note we got from my wife’s cousin and her husband. They conducted their first annual Burns Supper last weekend.
Well, Gary and Anita, we did it. We had our Burns Supper this evening and it was fantastic. Everyone had a good time--all 14 of us including our 3 and 1/2 year-old grandson. Amy made wonderful haggis out of goat meat since she was unable to get lamb. It was delicious and would have remained so even without the "gravy." Aaron and our friend Don piped in the haggis which Amy carried, followed by Carolyn and our friend Mac, the Scot, carrying the "gravy." Aaron played the guitar and Don played the recorder and tin whistle. We had roast beef, neeps, tatties, mashed peas and Scottish flatbread dipped in olive oil with Guiness and sugar for the meal, then a Scottish pudding for dessert. We danced a jig to the music after the meal and each of us took turns reading Burns poems. We didn't read Tam O'Shanter, however. All wanted to have another Burns supper next year. We'll send you some pictures and possibly a movie we made on the iPhone. Thank you so much for inspiring us to do this for, without your encouragement, we couldn't have pulled it off. Maurice and Carolyn
This is the point of The Life Literary: collecting, sharing and modeling scads of ideas for ways to live literarily. My dream is that someday I’ll be able to post many and regular examples of how TLL readers have put ideas from this blog to use. Living literarily is doable and fun. It can be as simple as memorizing a poem or writing a sentence a day (or week) or as complex as organizing an event like a Burns Supper. A literary (or more literary) life is available to anyone.
