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Secretary to the thoughts of others,
I grow, each night, to be the tenured scholar
of all galaxies. I gaze out
at the ancient history of stars – lights,
years old and centuries apart.
Anywhere we are, my text tells me,
is the center of a universe
on the exhale.
~ Carolyne Wright
violets here and there
in the ruins
of my burnt house
- CHOKYU-NI (1713-1781)
A haiku that inspires the reader to accept the chaos and imperfection that life is.
May this season and the year ahead be one of peace and resilience. 💜💜💜
🎨 Flower of Life II by O'Keeffe
Sing, my soul, to the one who moves like music, who comes down like steps of lightning, who widens space with the thought of his name, who returns like death, deep and intangible, to his own absence and his own glory.
- Leonard Cohen, Book of Mercy
That the world should be filled with such detail, such tiny points of human frailty, threatened to crush her and she had to look away.
- Ian McEwan, The Children Act
🎨Munch, The Sick Child
Photo from Munch Museum
You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure...
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry from Le Petit Prince
🎨Original unpublished watercolour by author
The secret of Seeking is that nothing’s found.
Eternal worlds endlessly and unceasingly
Keep spinning in vain, one inside another.
There’s us, and the Gods, and the Gods of Gods,
And we’re so interspersed and lost in them
That we can’t even find ourselves in infinity...
We mounted up, he first and I the second,
Till I beheld through a round aperture
Some of the beauteous things that Heaven doth bear;
Thence we came forth to rebehold the stars.
- Dante Alighieri (Closing words of Inferno)
Painting by Munch, Starry Night
@claudioborlotto With thanks🌹
"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
- Marcel Proust
Painting Thomas Kinkade, Gazebo of Prayer