! ! Daphne

She has… had… (which is the more appropriate word for those who live on so lively in one’s human memory? …) that grace of spirit which you’ll know from reading, seeing acted out, let’s say, Jane Austen: at once as serious about life as any thinker; yet as light-hearted as she danced life’s play, that to meet her, was to dance along with her pure spirit.. a golden girl; I remember her reading aloud Jane Austen’s letters, Fanny Burney’s diaries, as if she and we were living them together; Shakespeare surely met her like.. she pretended to the belief (eyes laughing, daring you to disagree..) that ‘humour’ derives from ‘guna’… and, she lived it; her soul, deeply serious; her spirit, dancing to a merry tune; acting out the play of life; speaking to the heart… such are the lives that touch our own, bless them, light them, lighten them; may I share this memory of her? * MS *[guna: in Hinduism, the three ‘qualities’ of all true goodness; activity; and rest; continually swaying and swinging the play of Creation with their imbalance from first to last]