Current Sleep Regime

Our visit to Ngala went very well and now we have to consolidate it. For the next few weeks this will be our routine (I hope):

7:00 Pearl and I awake (usually this is more like 5:30)
8:30 Ruby awakes
9:00 til 11:00 morning activities
10:30 morning tea
11:00 Ruby sleeps
11:30 lunch
12:00 Pearl sleeps
12:30 Ruby awakes and quiet play
1:30 Pearl awakes
2:00 afternoon tea
2:30 Ruby sleeps
2:30 to 5:00 afternoon activities
5:00 dinner
5:30 play
6:00 bath
6:30 supper, meds, teeth
7:00 bed

So, should you wish to visit or phone, any time between 9ish and 10:30 and 3ish to 5:00 would be fine (ha!).

2.7 Countee Callum, Color (1925)

Countee Callum, Color (1925)

Callum was a leading light of the Harlem Renaissance (and, cough, the only author from that period I have read).* I enjoyed his work - he is clearly a fairly traditional writer. His poetry rhymes, follows classical traditions and references classical and Biblical mythology. He was writing three years after *The Wasteland* came out, but might as well have been writing in the nineteenth century.

Callum himself said: ‘I should be the last person to vote for any infringement of the author’s right to tell a story, to delineate a character, or to transcribe an emotion in his own way, and in the light of truth as he sees it... I do believe, however, that the Negro has not yet built up a large enough body of sound, healthy literature to permit him to speculate in abortions and aberrations which other people are too prone to accept as legitimate...’

* Not my Renaissance! The Renaissance for Aboriginal literature was probably... um, is probably now.