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29 June 2024 04:46

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29 June 2024 01:46

Sonnet 73

"That time of year thou mayst in me behold

When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang

Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,

Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.

In me thou see'st the twilight of such day

As after sunset fadeth in the west,

Which by and by black night doth take away,

Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.

In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire

That on the ashes of his youth doth lie,

As the death-bed whereon it must expire,

Consum'd with that which it was nourish'd by.

This thou perceiv'st, which makes thy love more strong,

To love that well which thou must leave ere long."

~William Shakespeare

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28 June 2024 22:46

The Twilight Rain
By Matsuo Bashō


"In the twilight rain

These brilliant-hued hibiscus -

A lovely sunset."

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28 June 2024 19:46

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25 June 2024 06:23

"Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness. This is also the case when people withdraw from God."

~Saint Augustine

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25 June 2024 02:21

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25 June 2024 00:19

London, England, circa 1924.

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24 June 2024 20:17

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22 June 2024 07:06

00:00 Dance No. 1,
G Major
05:33 Dance No. 2,
A Major
12:00 Dance No. 3,
D Major
18:38 Dance No. 4,
A Minor

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22 June 2024 04:07

“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest (people) of the past centuries.”

~Descartes

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22 June 2024 01:36

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21 June 2024 23:34

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21 June 2024 21:32

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21 June 2024 18:29

"He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity’s sun rise."

~William Blake

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18 June 2024 04:22

On The Boat, 1887.

~Claude Monet

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29 June 2024 03:16

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29 June 2024 00:16

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28 June 2024 21:16

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28 June 2024 18:16

"Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand."

~Ezra Pound

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25 June 2024 04:22

Dinner is ready, fam. 🤍

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25 June 2024 02:20

"I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose."

~Beethoven

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24 June 2024 22:18

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24 June 2024 18:16

"If you attempt to teach children how the sign has led to the neglect of the thing signified, how money is the source of all the false ideas of society, how countries rich in silver must be poor in everything else, you will be treating these children as philosophers, and not only as philosophers but as wise men, for you are professing to teach them what very few philosophers have grasped."

~Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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22 June 2024 05:36

Jeremiah 6:16

"Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls."

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22 June 2024 02:37

Frens... 🤍

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22 June 2024 00:35

Go outside... enjoy your summer. ☀️

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21 June 2024 22:33

THE POET IN NATURE
By Walt Whitman

"I walk solitary, unattended,
An interval passing at vacancy with nature, acceptive and at ease,
Sane, random, negligent hours,
Wandering the negligent paths,
Withdrawn to muse and meditate in some deep recess.

Every day, seclusion—the soothing silence, far from the clank of crowds,
Every day at least two or three hours of freedom, no talk, no bonds, no dress, no manners,
Away from books—away from art—the lesson learn’d, pass’d o’er,
No longer abash’d, for I can respond as I would not dare elsewhere.

Nature is naked, and I am also,
Sweet, sane, still nakedness in nature!
Ah if poor, sick, prurient humanity might really know you once more!
Is not nakedness then indecent?
No, not inherently; are we not all naked under our clothes?
It is the beholder’s own thought, inference, distorted construction that is indecent—
It is your thought, your sophistication, your fear, your respectability.
Your stale modesties are filthy to such a man as I,
There come moods when these clothes of ours are not only too irksome to wear, but are themselves indecent.

The inner never-lost rapport we hold with earth, light, air, trees, etc., is not to be realized through eyes and mind only, but through the whole corporeal body. Perhaps indeed he or she to whom the free exhilarating extasy of nakedness in nature has never been eligible (and how many thousands there are!) has not really known what purity is—nor what faith or art or health really is.

Nothing can exceed the quiet splendor and freshness, the fresh scent, the peace, the naturalness all around me,
I feel the sky, the prairies vast,
I feel the ocean and the forest—somehow I feel the globe itself swift-swimming in space,
Never before did I get so close to nature; never before did she come so close to me.

Amid this wild, free scene, how healthy, how joyous, how clean and vigorous and sweet!
It seems indeed as if peace and nutriment from heaven subtly filter into me here,
How it all nourishes, lulls me, in the way most needed.
The disturb’d passions and the feverish conflict subsided,
I stand or sit, musing, my sane or sick spirit here as near at peace as it can be.
My spirit at peace, I smile,
All is peace here, I am satisfied..."

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21 June 2024 20:31

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18 June 2024 06:23

“Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines
of two everlasting hostile empires,
—Necessity and Free Will.”

~Thomas Carlyle

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18 June 2024 02:21

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