It was a very grey, misty, Wuthering Ash Wednesday - no ashes for me this year (kid life!) - but my husband and I read T.S. Eliot’s Ash Wednesday out loud in an edition that had my grandmother’s handwriting scrawled all across it with notes. Felt lovely and connected to the dead and the living.

No Attic Thoughts tomorrow - got too into a Kate Bush deep dive (did you know there’s a poem on a stone out in Yorkshire honoring the Brontes that she wrote for Emily? It’s gorgeous - read below - Did you know Kate and Emily share a birthday, July 30th? Did you know Kate Bush wrote a fantastic song - the Sensual World - based on Molly Bloom’s mind-blowing last soliloquy in Ulysses? (“Yes I said yes I will Yes!”) What a literary lady! Did you know Kate Bush opted for a quiet life in the country with her husband and son and just ‘made a record when she felt like it?’ Did you know she wrote Wuthering Heights when she was 18 after seeing that crazy scene in the 1967 BBC adaptation where Cathy’s ghost is flying at the window? Now you do!)

Also got way too into reading my mountain of Sylvia Plath books and wandering my own chilly moors. I’ve listened to “Wuthering Heights” on a near constant loop for two days so anytime I close my eyes I hear IT’S ME I’M CATHY I’VE COME HOME

Here’s Kate’s brilliant poem -

"She stands outside

A book in her hands

“Her name is Cathy”, she says

“I have carried her so far, so far

Along the unmarked road from our graves

I cannot reach this window

Open it, I pray.”

But his window is a door to a lonely world

That longs to play.

Ah Emily. Come in, come in and stay."