It’s a holiday weekend and right now I should be at the beach! But, alas, it is raining unrelentingly and we are consigned to the indoors. Fortunately, prior to the arrival of the rain, I managed to drag myself out of bed early enough to make a trip to the shore for some photographs. Assateague … Read more
Chopin’s Fantasie Impromptu for piano in C Sharp Minor, Op. 66
Played by Russian classical pianist Valentina Igoshina.
American poet e. e. cummings sums up the healing capacity of God’s creation and how it points us to His existence. i thank You God for most this amazing… i thank You God for most this amazing day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything which is … Read more
The boys and I spent the afternoon yesterday hiking and playing in a river that runs through the state park. We read the following poem by Walt Whitman and were successful in finding a few “heart-shaped leaves” of our own. I wish July would never end…. A July Afternoon By The Pond The fervent heat, … Read more
Laughing Blue Steel TWO fishes swimming in the sea, Two birds flying in the air, Two chisels on an anvil—maybe. Beaten, hammered, laughing blue steel to each other—maybe. Sure I would rather be a chisel with you than a fish. Sure I would rather be a chisel with you than a bird. Take these two … Read more
“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.” ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~ Just as we need food, water and oxygen to … Read more
