Halfway through and I've been chuckling nearly the whole time. Lots of fun.

Is it my phone's settings or is the font actually smaller than how it used to be ?

Update: I reported the bug

Has anyone found inspiration for their reading in the Winter Olympics this year? Anything from winter sports to Italian settings or anything else ❄️

The other day I saw a writing prompt where a fae is trapped in the human world. I scrolled through the comments and I didn’t see anyone saying if there was a book with this prompt. I would absolutely love to read this and if anyone knows a book like this I would greatly appreciate it. 🙏❤️

Hestia is described by Stephen Fry as ”placid, contented, kind, hospitable and domestic, she tended to stay away from the everyday power struggles and political machinations of the other gods.” She was given the realm of the Hearth to take care of and although it is not of such central importance now, I am fascinated by how Stephen Fry explains how the word ‘Hearth’ stands for more than just a fireplace and Hestias influence in English can be seen to this day.

Here’s a wonderfully informative snippet:

”We speak of ‘hearth and home‘. Our word ‘hearth’ shares its ancestry with ‘heart’, just as the modern Greek for ‘hearth’ is kardia, which also means ‘heart’. In Ancient Greece the wider concept of hearth and home was expressed by the oikos, which lives on for us today in words like ‘economics’ and ‘ecology’. The Latin for hearth is focus - which speaks for itself. It is a strange and wonderful thing that out of words for a fireplace we have spun ‘cardiologist’, ‘deep focus’ and ‘eco-warrior.’

I may think of Hestia before a meal now and when settling down to study, when thankful for the privilege I have in living in a dry house under a protective roof my ‘hearth’, my home.