[recs]

So I keep going on and on and on about how much I love elisem's art - I've got pretty much an entire wall in my room dedicated to it, and I wear some of it most days - and they are currently holding a sale, in part to help cover human-and-animal vet expenses. I strongly encourage you to go check it out, if only to coo over the names and the shinies. <3

Elise's work is responsible for my poem Beginning and The Accompanist, plus a short story/piece of free verse I have yet to submit places, that turned out to tell me more about how my brain works than I'd thought possible.

Family history via the medium of etymology

From my mum, just now:

Grausi used to call gooseberries 'ogrosln'. I'm working on a Slavic etymological dictionary at the moent and on the very first page I've spotted something interesting 'Stachelbeere' leapt out at me and then I looked at the Slavic words agrestu etc.:
It gives: medieval latin 'agresta', modern German Austrian 'agras' (this in 1886), Hungarian egres, Slovenian agres. FUN!

Now back to finding out whether this publication ever had such a thing as
a title page or preface/list of abbreviations. This copy doesn't!

("Grausi" is my maternal great-grandmother.)