Mojo, The Bard, & Me

 Today’s Totally Random Lines

 

 Come to the Centaur; fetch our stuff from thence:

I long that we were safe and sound aboard.

  

Antipholus of Syracuse

The Comedy of Errors                    Act IV, Scene iv, Line 148

 

I believe the Centaur is the inn they are staying at. Antipholus is talking to Dromio and he’s had just about enough of Ephesus. He wants out. He wants to be safe and sound aboard the vessel leaving town. 

Interesting that the phrase safe and sound has found its way safely to 2023 without any change in form or meaning. It’s funny, because we don’t much use the word sound in the sense of whole and intact very much anymore. But we certainly use the words safe and sound. It’s a good phrase - safe and sound. It’s always good to be and feel safe and sound. Think of all the people in the world today who have good reason not to feel safe and sound.

Perhaps that should be our thought for the day - appreciating that we are, for the most part, safe and sound. And if you like, you can also appreciate the fact that we still have the phrase safe and sound after all these years.

Safe and sound.

Here is the view from where I sit and write my blog most mornings, safe and sound (no, no babies; that's Mojo's city apartment in the left foreground of the pictures).