A lament on behalf of all people who go through life unnoticed and unappreciated – or at least believe they are. Trust in God who loves and appreciates us even when it seems no one else does. She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways By WILLIAM WORDSWORTH She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs … Read more
Never let your actions be guided by fear: FEAR By General George S. Patton Jr. I am that dreadful, blighting thing, Like rat holes to the flood. Like rust that gnaws the faultless blade, Like microbes to the blood. I know no mercy and no truth, The young I blight, the old I slay. Regret … Read more
The poem “Solitude” by Alexander Pope with a photo of the grounds of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. Two writers from the Enlightenment period with different outlooks on life. But they could probably agree on the simple joys of the bucolic life as expressed in this poem. Solitude Happy the man, whose wish and care A few … Read more
Heat O wind, rend open the heat, cut apart the heat, rend it to tatters. Fruit cannot drop through this thick air– fruit cannot fall into heat that presses up and blunts the points of pears and rounds the grapes. Cut the heat– plough through it, turning it on either side of your path. -H.D.
Have you got a Brook in your little heart Have you got a Brook in your little heart, Where bashful flowers blow, And blushing birds go down to drink, And shadows tremble so — And nobody knows, so still it flows, That any brook is there, And yet your little draught of life Is daily … Read more
In New York City this week we happened upon two opera singers performing “Flower Duet” from Lakme in Washington Square Park. It was a beautiful moment. Find link below to hear a version of the piece by Leo Delibes performed by Natalie Dessay & Delphine Haidan: Daily Dose of Beauty Archives
“There is something in us that loves symmetry, selection, arrangement, as well as wildness and irregularity. A small garden, accordingly, gives its owner a far greater opportunity to express himself than a small lawn. The usual lawn expresses nothing so much a vacancy of mind or an impious waste of good material; whereas in a … Read more
A giant head sculpture by renowned Spanish artist Jaume Plensa in Madison Square Park in New York City with the Empire State Building in the background. The 44′ high “Echo” is a white fiberglass resin work inspired by the Greek mythological nymph Echo. She could only utter other people’s thoughts but not her own. The … Read more
My little boy picked some wildflowers for me when we were hiking together. I told him how happy I was to receive the gift to which he very matter-of-factly explained, “Mommy, who WOULDN’T want to give you flowers?” If that’s not beautiful, I don’t know what is.
Trees To be a giant and keep quiet about it, To stay in one’s own place; To stand for the constant presence of process And always to seem the same; To be steady as a rock and always trembling, Having the hard appearance of death With the soft, fluent nature of growth, One’s Being deceptively … Read more
