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There are no stars tonight but those of memory.

Hart Crane, The Complete Poems

My Grandmother’s Love Letters

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I want to age like sea glass so that when people see the old woman I’ll become, they’ll embrace all that I am. They’ll marvel at my exquisite nature, hold me gently in their hands and be awed by my well-earned patina. Neither flashy nor dull, just a perfect luster. And they’ll wonder, if just for a second, what it is exactly I am made of and how I got to this very here and now. And we’ll both feel lucky to be in that perfectly right place at that profoundly right time

Bernadette Noll

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Edna St. Vincent Millay

Ragged Island

To Millay, it was the most beautiful island she’d ever seen. Two weeks later her husband bought the island for $750.

She was “a girl who all her life loved the tideline of the sea,” said Lawless.

The Harpswell cottage, with no running water or electricity, became their haven. She was “part mermaid,” said Lawless, and everyone on the island swam in the nude. She wrote: “We think bathing dress of any sort is indecent, and so do the waves and so do the seagulls and so does the wind.

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The gentle rose offers a powerful joy known only to the heart.

Andrew Pacholyk, Lead Us To A Place

Lady Banks roses

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“and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.”

― Ruskin Bond

Scenes from a Writer's Life

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Spring

I know what I know.

The sun is hot on my neck as I observe

The spikes of the crocus.

The smell of the earth is good.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Constantin Brancusi 1876-1957

Romania

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Oskar Schlemmer

German Impressionist who was born in 1888

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I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.'

Kurt Vonnegut

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Me and the Moon

Arthur Dove 1880-1946

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And the days are not full enough

And the nights are short

And life slips by like a field mouse

Not shaking the grass

Ezra Pound

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Carlos Estévez — The Mirrors of Time I  (oil & watercolor pencil on canvas, 2015)

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Phèdre et Hyppolite, 1944, Jacques Villon

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I see the sun, and that rising of the light moves me very much, and I’m used to thinking and feeling in words, so it sort of just happens. I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and … almost involuntary in my life,” she says. “And when I talk about prayer, I mean really … what Rumi says in that wonderful line, ‘there are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.'” — Mary Oliver

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Hello March!

Edith Holden



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My heart to yours…

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Juliet Man Ray nee Browner

After dinner we went to a night club where some of the best jazz of the period was being played. We danced. Juliet was like a feather in my arms.

Man Ray

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