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Sunday, June 30, 2024
Wednesday, May 29, 2024
May 18 Memorial
Die Marschallin, from Act I of Der Rosenkavalier, an opera from 1909
Music by Richard Strauss, Words by Hugo von Hoffmannsthal (59 through 106 minutes into opera):
"There is nothing you can do about the passing of time.
Time is a strange thing.
At first we live our lives and time means nothing.
Then, suddenly, you're aware of nothing else.
It's all around us and also within us.
It seeps into our faces;
It trickles across the mirror and flows into our skin.
It also flows between me and you
Silently as an hourglass.
Yet at times I can hear it
flowing inexorably.
Sometimes I awaken in the middle of the night.
I go to all the clocks and I stop them.
Yet, one must not be afraid of time.
Even Time is a creation of the Father who created us all...
Today or tomorrow or the next day you will leave me.
I do not say this to torment you.
I am speaking to myself.
We must be light of heart and light of hand,
holding and taking, holding and letting go.
Those who do not
are punished by Life
and God has no mercy on them."
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Spring Trees; April 2024
Leaves in spring are yellowish.
The architecture of the trunks is still visible.
This Willow Oak probably dates back to the early 1900's.
There are still some American Elms left, although most died in the 1970's.
Sunday, March 31, 2024
Consolation in Bonnard
Bonnard Show at the Phillips Collection: Bonnard's Worlds
The Garden, 1936
Studio with Mimosa 1939/1946
Coffee, 1915
Nude in an Interior, 1935
Nude in Bathtub, 1941-1946
Young Women in the Garden, 1921/1945
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
Saint Alan
AVE ATQUE VALE HAIL AND FARETHEEWELL
VALE ATQUE SALVE FAREWELL AND SALUTATIONS
IN PROXIMUM, IN PROXIMUM WE ARE NEAR, WE ARE NEAR
Latin salute and farewell for a dead hero.
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