Recommended reading - Some Must Watch, by Ethel Lina White (1933):

Some Must Watch

By Ethel Lina White.

Filmed as The Spiral Staircase (1946), directed by Robert Siodmak.

Paperback.

Published by Hinkler Books.

First published 1933.

ISBN 13: 9781743081167

ISBN10: 1743081162

ASIN: 1743081162

Description:

Film director Robert Siodmak took Some Must Watch as the inspiration for his classic, bone-chilling thriller, The Spiral Staircase. In this novel Helen Capel takes the position of lady-help in a remote country house owned by the Warren family. She learns that a murderer is on the loose. All four of his victims were young girls, and the last of these was strangled in a lonely house just five miles away. Helen feels safe inside the house, protected, but the maniac is closer than she fears.

Burton Rascoe, on writers:

A writer is working when looking out the window.

- Burton Rascoe.

A Night-Piece, poem by William Wordsworth:

A Night-Piece

Poem by William Wordsworth.

The sky is overcast
With a continuous cloud of texture close,
Heavy and wan, all whitened by the Moon,
Which through that veil is indistinctly seen,
A dull, contracted circle, yielding light
So feebly spread, that not a shadow falls,
Chequering the ground – from rock, plant, tree, or tower.
At length a pleasant instantaneous gleam
Startles the pensive traveller while he treads
His lonesome path, with unobserving eye
Bent earthwards; he looks up – the clouds are split
Asunder, – and above his head he sees
The clear Moon, and the glory of the heavens.
There, in a black-blue vault she sails along,
Followed by multitudes of stars, that, small
And sharp, and bright, along the dark abyss
Drive as she drives: how fast they wheel away,
Yet vanish not! – the wind is in the tree,
But they are silent; – still they roll along
Immeasurably distant; and the vault,
Built round by those white clouds, enormous clouds,
Still deepens its unfathomable depth.
At length the Vision closes; and the mind,
Not undisturbed by the delight it feels,
Which slowly settles into peaceful calm,
Is left to muse upon the solemn scene.

Recommended reading:

William Wordsworth Selected Poems

Video by Jack Kost.
2025.

Photograph:

Night Light (2023), by Jack Kost.

Sound effect credit:

Wind Gusts Late Autumn

by freesound_community
from Pixabay.

On this day in music history: Vessel of Light, by Helen Jane Long (2020):

Vessel of Light

Album by Helen Jane Long,

released February 19, 2020.

Track list:

Signs of Life; Sequoia; Propel; Solus; Order; Life Is; Ravelled; Instincts; Collision; Symmetry; Quiet Voice; Living With Hope.

On this day in music history - Color Me Home, by Darlene Koldenhoven (2017):

Color Me Home

Album by Darlene Koldenhoven,
released February 19, 2017.

Track list:

First Light; The Pleasure of the Mourning Dove; Kalahari Calls, Song of the Swans; Eternal Love’s Song; Indian Summer; Embracing This Moment; Ode to Our Orb; Until; Open Skies; Color Me Home.

On this day in music history - Celtic Fairy Lullaby, by 2002 (2016):

Celtic Fairy Lullaby

Album by 2002,

released February 19, 2016.

Track list:

Seoithín Seo HÓ (Hushaby, Hush) / Gartan Mother's Lullaby; Cariad; BÍ Thusa 'Mo Shúile (Be Thou My Vision); Away from the Roll of the Sea; Éamonn An Chnoic (Ned of the Hills); HÓ Bha in (Sleep My Child); Bánchnoic Éireann Ó (The Fair Hills of Ireland); Ar Hyd y Nos (All Through the Night); Mo Ghile Mear (My Gallant Darling); My Singing Bird; Buachaill ÓN Éirne (Boy from the River Erne); Thugamar Féin An Samhradh Linn (We Brought the Summer with Us).

On this day in music history - On Water, by Amy Lauren (2013):

On Water

Album by Amy Lauren,

released February 19, 2013.

Track list:

Cedar Rush; Gales of Indigo; Dragonfly Blue; Native Peace; The Vineyard; North Shore; The Field Dancer; Tahquamenon; On Water; Takoda; Fire and Flint; Tannin Falls; Carry This Soul.