Lepidoptera: the order of insects that includes butterflies and moths.
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They flutter
With nowhere to go
Magnolia lepidoptera
📷From my wife's walk on this blustery day:
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Well done, faire Laura🫶....it shall be done!😉🤗
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Heartwarming 🥰
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• Excerpt from The Voice of the Rain (1885), by Walt Whitman. Later collected in Leaves of Grass, First Annex : Sands at Seventy (c. 1892).
• Artwork: Eugene Larkin (American, 1921-2010). No title, c. 1950-1960. Woodcut on paper. Source: Art Institute of Chicago.
You're most welcome, Laura✨🫶🌜(I won't let 'Sir' go to my head...probably😉🤗)
• Excerpt from The Voice of the Rain (1885), by Walt Whitman. Later collected in Leaves of Grass, First Annex : Sands at Seventy (c. 1892). • Artwork: Eugene Larkin (American, 1921-2010). No title, c. 1950-1960. Woodcut on cream Japanese paper. Source: Art Institute of Chicago. • Personal note: The poem speaks of eternal and transcendental beauty. The artwork, to me, speaks of natural beauty and life cycles—but also of the delicate and fragile balance of nature, as illustrated in the translucent and ephemeral leaves, reflecting the peril faced by Mother Nature from human apathy, ignorance and greed.
#WhitmanWednesday 🌾 Earth Day 🌾
And who art thou! said I to the soft-falling shower,
Which, strange to tell, gave me an answer, as here
translated:
I am the Poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain,
Eternal I rise impalpable out of the land and the bottomless
sea...
- Walt Whitman
Love these silhouettes...Halloween-esque🩶🫶🎃
He doesn't think of doctrines as primarily "true" or "false", but as "academic" or "practical", "outworn" or "contemporary",
"conventional" or "ruthless". Jargon, not argument, is your best ally in keeping him from the Church.
- C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters (1942)
"You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose."
Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
- Hermann Hesse, c. 1922
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That sentence🥰
Beautiful & poetic🌥️
Lots of beautiful, innovative architecture, Suse!☀️🫶
Thank you for all you do.🤝
Thank you, Laura.🫶 Yes, we are – and hope you are too!🌹🌤️
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Those hidden gems💛...I've also learned a new word: crepuscular!✨🙏
That photo💙...and description✨
Wonderful...love the sketches.🩶⚓️
Source: HERMAN MELVILLE: PIERRE, ISRAEL POTTER, THE PIAZZA TALES, THE CONFIDENCE-MAN, BILLY BUDD, UNCOLLECTED PROSE Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1984, New York, N.Y. Tenth Printing, The Library of America.
Artwork by Francis Day. Photograph from The LIFE Picture Collection / Getty. From the article HERMAN MELVILLE'S SOFT WITHDRAWAL by John Updike, May 2, 1982, The New Yorker.
#MelvilleMonday
Give ear, now, all ye shore-disdaining, ocean-enamored youths, who labor under the lamentable delusion, that the sea—the "glorious sea" is always and in reality "the blue, the fresh, the ever free!"
- Herman Melville
Photo of Eunice Tietjens (1884-1944). Source: Poetry Foundation.
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Breaking Storm, Coast of Maine, 1894, by Winslow Homer (1836-1910). Watercolor on paper. Source: Art Institute of Chicago.
Horizon at Sea by Eunice Tietjens (1884-1944). Source: Poetry Magazine, March 1940.
Poem: Horizon at Sea. Eunice Tietjens. 1940. Painting: Breaking Storm, Coast of Maine, 1894, by Winslow Homer.
#MelvilleMonday
✍️E. Tietjens, Horizon at Sea
Hard and blue hangs the horizon
In its perfect circle curled,
While we teeter, swing and stagger,
Shifting in a shifting world.
One would think it had existence,
This horizon firm and stable,
Lying like the sharp-cut edges
Of a blue and cosmic table.
So much fun. Simply fabulous.🥰🎶
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Yes – aren't we in fine company.🤩🪄
Luminous✨and illuminating🌾
Excerpted from the preface. Dedicated to J. R. R. Tolkien. The following sentence: "Do remember you are there to fuddle him."
#SundaySentence
But the best of all is to let him read no science but to give him a grand general idea that he knows it all and that everything he happens to have picked up in casual talk and reading is “the results of modern investigation”.
C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters (1942)
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