Bedtime Story Conservatory 62 28/05/2020
Hello and moi to all,
I have had a confusing day with different email platforms, and trying to figure out why some people on the mailing list weren't receiving my emails. Apologies for this, from now on they should get through to you in one piece. For those who have missed some, I have spent the last 2 hours (kind of frantically but enjoyably) archiving all previous emails and readings on my website. I particularly would like to point you towards yesterday's email, which I felt very energised about. Here is the link to the projects' page-
https://www.samuelthompsonplant.com/bedtime-story-conservatory
If you are reading this, and if you are reading this in the future, and if you are reading this wherever, thank you for reading this, you are wonderful, and you are catching my voice in your ear whilst I talk into what sometimes feels like the dark, and what sometimes feels like the light.
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Today my Dad told me on the phone that if I was born a girl, then I would be called Lauren. This section of this email is probably not especially interesting to you, but I got excited about it, so here is the excitement. He also told me that I was born in this hospital pictured below, which I didn't realise, I had been getting the hospital name wrong my whole life, and I thought it was funny how these little things build your sense of self in some way or another, and those memories can be warped and snuffed out just like that.
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Paul McCartney - Blackbird (Live Version fom 70s)
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Today's reading is Death's Messenger 1840, a folk-lore tale collected by the Brothers Grimm. Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm and Wilhelm Carl Grimm, were German academics, philologists, cultural researchers, lexicographers and authors who together collected and published folklore during the 19th century.
Many of the Brothers Grimm's fairy-tales have been adapted to a younger audience, such as Cinderella, but the tales the brother's collected frequently featured darker themes, for instance in The Pied Piper, who in the original version plays the flute to hypnotise children into following him into the woods, whereas the version I heard as a kid was the Piper drawing mice out of an infested town.
Here is a link to the reading-
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y9CtPsp1vlI5ZQvVMrUwubsT9v_c-Od6/view?usp=sharing
And a link to all previous readings-
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1t4v042zpGgwI7KN6_ST_tAthqm63J22V?usp=sharing
Warmest wishes, and lots of love as always, hope your day has been good to you,
Sam
