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Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous observation and question.

It's a bit surprising to me that Australia is not among the mineral content-depleted soil list that includes America and Europe.

Is Australia not as intensively cultivated soil-wise as America and Europe?

There's a blood drive from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. this coming Saturday.

That blood drive always has a refreshment area where volunteer blood-giving gets thanked with a nice drink and some nice snacks before leaving.

There should be a nice response what with Mother's Day and Memorial Day this month and what with the weather so nice that the grass suddenly is knee-high in places.

Thank you!

Ireland attracted Norse speakers such that my maternal Norse line appears in every county of all Ireland.

That representation causes me to consider Scandinavian influences as strong in Ireland also.

Might Scandinavian influences be as strong, stronger or weaker in all Ireland, Ireland outside Northern, Northern Ireland than in the Isle of Man?

The Catholic Faith Store online advises us to "Get out and pray: how to create a prayer garden."

For Mary-dedicated prayer gardens, the aforementioned site considers:

Lilies, for Mary's grace and purity;
Roses, for Mary's heavenly queenship;
Stars of Bethlehem, for the Magi;
Violets, for Mary's modesty and simplicity;
Carnations, for blooming the night of Jesus' birth;
Forget-Me-Knots, for Mary's radiantly blue eyes.

Is it traditional to imagine Our Lady Mary as blue-eyed?
Is there any tradition about Jesus Christ's and St. Joseph's eye colors?

The in-text images of onboard drink and food cause me to consider officer and sailor fare.

Did the captain and his officers drink the same drinks and eat the same foods as their sailors? Or was it one menu for captain and officers and another for sailors?

Your comment below about natural events as harmful or as helpful caused me to consider world ends.

A comment elsewhere, again in answer to previous observations and questions of mine, designates from Christian tradition fire as world-ending.

Does that tradition describe world-ending fire as from bombs, gas explosions, lightning or meteor strikes, pyromania, spontaneous combustion, volcanic eruptions or wildfires?

To return at the appointed time is in the temptations of Christ in Luke's Gospel. Yes I'll be back is apt. Did you see the temptations of Christ in this story?

The last entry to the second subheading, Irish mythical creatures, advises us of "Fear Dearg - a mischievous spirit like a leprechaun but dressed all in red."

Can the other mythical creatures be color-coded in terms of signature dress?

In the collapse of Roman Europe many, most in fact, documents were lost, and Aristotle'-s works were among those lost.

Orkney and Shetland were only joined to Scotland innthe fifteenth century. They havevavstrong identity of their own,

Reading your wizzley again caused me to consider that Ireland configures as Northern and as Republic.

Did swans lose royal-property protection with Irish independence outside Northern Ireland or did that protection transfer to someone or something else or does the Republic not domicile swans?

Thank you for Genius loci.

The aforementioned short story is compelling even as it invokes the scariness of being on one's own away from all worldly help in times of other-worldy and worldly troubles and the unsettling presence of a walker with "surprisingly clean" boots.

It's an effective ending even as I ponder, without wishing for words other than St. Luke's wending their way through the conclusion, how one would say "to return at the appointed time."

What would "appointed time" mean in St. Luke's gospel?

(Would it be the equivalent of that famous line from the Arnold Schwarzenegger Terminator film, "I'll be back"?)

Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous, same-day observation and question.

Your comment April 3, 2023, that "The Greek influence came not from Pharaonic Egypt but much later from the Byzantine Greek culture of the Eastern Roman Empire. Both
Plato and Aristotle were influential, but the most significant philosopher to be introduced to the west by the Arabs was Aristotle, who was barely known in the west" intrigues me in another way.

Why is it that Aristotle "was barely known in the west" even as that west was his home sphere of influence?

Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous, same-day question.

It intrigues me that Orkney law invokes ancient Norse law even as ancient Norse law perhaps informed other areas of the British Isles.

Is Orkney managing to be different because Norse bloodlines and Norse heritage offer their strongest British-Isles expression there?

The sole paragraph to the fourth subheading, Gifts Are the Key To One's Heart If you can't buy them, steal them!, advises us that "While it's not explicitly written who owns the forest where the cat caught the partridges and rabbits, it's obvious that the miller's son doesn't have any right to hunt."

The fifth in-text image -- Puss pretending, by Carl Offterdinger -- counts among my favorite parts amidst Puss in Boots illustrations. It exposes how Puss in Boots fetches forest-flocking partridges and rabbits!

(In another direction, but relevant because forest-related, you mention elsewhere sharing with us forest roles in fairy tales. Might that be any time soon? [And congratulations to your city for the consecutive number of Tree City awards!)