"The surprise of newfound harmony"

Clowdering together on the front porch this evening, Tiny and Earl Grey, like Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, express "many of love’s moods: courtship and seduction, repartee and responsiveness, teasing and challenge, the surprise of newfound harmony, the happy recapture of bygone romance, the giddy exhilaration of high spirits and intense mutual accord, the sense of a perfect balance of power, the tragedy of parting and, not least, the sense of love as role playing," as Alastair Macauley writes in "They Seem to Find the Happiness They Seek."

Thanks to Virginia Postrel for the hot, hot, hot tip from her endlessly enchanting deepglamour Twitter site.

Update: More newfound harmonies at Modulator's Friday Ark #257.

Comments

[Teresa]

I must remember to get here on the correct browser... I forget and then don't have time to come back on Safari so I can comment. *sigh*.

The kitties they are soooo cute. Clowdering - lol - love that word.

[Sissy Willis]

Teresa: How are you and Ken slogging through this long, hot August?

Did you hear the absurd local story of how Commonwealth-run swimming pools were shut down for the season just in time for the heat wave? Apparently the lifeguards had to go back to school, I think (wasn't paying that much attention). In the old days before soul-killing regulation and the fear of lawsuits, some local civic-minded good swimmers would have volunteered for a workaround. Reminds me of Obamacare!

Gah!

[Gayle Miller]

So what do we know of Earl Grey? His prospects? His antecedents? His intentions vis-a-vis our incandescently beautiful Tiny?

[Webutante]

I don't know, but with a name like Earl Grey--- spelled with an "e'" I'd say his prospects are pretty darned good....

Precious post, Sissy.