Here’s a note we got from my wife’s cousin and her husband.\u00a0 They conducted their first annual Burns Supper last weekend.<\/p>\n
Well, Gary and Anita, we did it. We had our Burns Supper this\r\nevening and it was fantastic. Everyone had a good time--all 14 of us\r\nincluding our 3 and 1\/2 year-old grandson. Amy made wonderful\r\nhaggis out of goat meat since she was unable to get lamb. It was\r\ndelicious and would have remained so even without the\r\n\"gravy.\" Aaron and our friend Don piped in the haggis which Amy\r\ncarried, followed by Carolyn and our friend Mac, the Scot, carrying\r\nthe \"gravy.\" Aaron played the guitar and Don played the recorder\r\nand tin whistle. We had roast beef, neeps, tatties, mashed peas and\r\nScottish flatbread dipped in olive oil with Guiness and sugar for the\r\nmeal, then a Scottish pudding for dessert. We danced a jig to the\r\nmusic after the meal and each of us took turns reading Burns\r\npoems. We didn't read Tam O'Shanter, however. All wanted to have\r\nanother Burns supper next year. We'll send you some pictures and\r\npossibly a movie we made on the iPhone. Thank you so much for\r\ninspiring us to do this for, without your encouragement, we couldn't\r\nhave pulled it off. Maurice and Carolyn<\/pre>\nThis is the point of The Life Literary<\/em>: collecting, sharing and modeling scads of ideas for ways to live literarily.\u00a0 My dream is that someday I’ll be able to post many and regular examples of how TLL<\/em> readers have put ideas from this blog to use.\u00a0 Living literarily is doable and fun.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 A literary (or more literary) life is available to anyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here’s a note we got from my wife’s cousin and her husband.\u00a0 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 … Continue reading