Successful diabetes management in my book requires a "MUSE": Meaningful reason to stay well, Understanding what diabetes is, Skills for lifestyle changes and Emotional strength/support, in addition to medicine and devices.
A novelist may require an office or room set aside that inspires her creativity and encourages her inner muse.
"I mean, what kind of lifestyle required a little comb in a sleeve?" he wonders, musing on the sumptuous interior of this treasure.
"Mud Muse," a tank of merrily bubbling, sonically activated driller's mud, requires a good-sized room of its own viewers who enter risk being splattered.
After Algy scoffs all the cucumber sandwiches prepared for Aunt Augusta in the opening scene, the second act revolves completely around a tea scene: Cecily and Gwendolen both assert their engagement to a man named "Ernest", during which tea descends into an elaborate war of excessive politeness ("Destestable girl! But I require tea!", muses Gwendolen).
The Ion says less about poetry's divine origins than the Phaedrus, certainly nothing that requires an interpreter to discover Forms within the Muse's magnetism.
And when books do not sell, which is usually the case, it is tiresome to play and then repeat the roles required: muse, publicist and interpreter.
Reinforcing the message that she might not leave before her health requires it, she mused of another former colleague, "I wonder if Sandra regrets stepping down when she did?" Justice Sandra Day O'Connor retired in January 2006 at age 75 to take care of her husband, John, who had Alzheimer's disease.
A dreadful muse is still a muse.
She was a muse and teacher.
