@praxis74
Professor of Philosophy & History of Religions, Seeker, Friend, Helper, Logotherapist, Mystic Heuristic, Ancient to the Future "Out of abundance, He took abundance, and still abundance remained." --- Upanishads "What is this?" --- Zen Koan
Two Puffins – A Quiet Conversation
“Did you see what the seagulls were doing?”
“They really need to chill on the cliffs.”
#Puffin #Birds #Watercolour #Painting #Art
During the pandemic, I had days when I felt I was by myself on a shore drained of the tide, dragging a stick across miles of wet sand. There were also days when I was a boy again, sliding down a snowy hill on a flattened cardboard box. And there were days when I remembered the teacher who made us memorize a poem each week, and when we asked why, she said we might one day find ourselves in a wreck at the side of the road and we would recite these poems to stay alive.
Rick Barot ♥️
A beautiful reminder of what poetry can do.
Mine:)
Lee Morgan...
Bawan Bavji Jain Tirth near Mount Abu
Bawan Bavji Jain Tirth near Mount Abu is an exquisite white marble temple known for its symmetrical and tiered architectural design.
The structure features grand intersecting staircases that create a striking geometric pattern while symbolizing spiritual ascent.
Photographer Hannes Killian, one of Germany’s most significant mid-century photographers. Kilian did not stage his pictures, but used them to mirror his own very personal perceptions.
Leuchtschrift des Tanzes
(Light scripture of dance), 1950
#HannesKillian #Photography
French Art Nouveau sculptor Agathon Léonard
Le Vampire (ou La Chauve-Souris), 1903
#Sculpture #ArtNouveau
Alan Parry (British, b.1940)
"Mirror Image," 2016
Acrylic on board
72 x 54 cm
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
A vertical, ground-level photograph of a clear glass sphere resting on a mirror. The sphere captures a sharp, inverted reflection of a sunrise, showing vibrant orange and pink tones along the horizon and a deep blue sky. The mirror surface below creates a perfect, crisp reflection of the glass ball and the colors of the dawn. In the background, the sunrise is shown as a soft-focus glow with pink-tinted clouds against a transitioning sky, silhouetting a distant treeline.
Mirror Mirror on the Ground
#nature #photography #sunrise
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Il est des heures dans l'enfance où tout enfant est l'être étonnant, l'être qui réalise l'étonnement d'être. Nous découvrons ainsi en nous une enfance immobile, une enfance sans devenir, libérée de l'engrenage du calendrier.”
— Gaston Bachelard, La poétique de la rêverie
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Fantastic Hues March Challenge
#dxhues26
Day 3: Void Black
#Midjourney #AiArt
René Magritte, The Blank Signature, 1965
“So What” by Miles Davis was recorded 67 years ago today.
Fragment Christ, may I die at night with a semblance of my faculties, like the full moon that fails.
Robert Lowell was born on this day in 1917. According to Frank Bidart, this is "[t]he final stanza of an unfinished poem that Lowell was working on the week before he died."
Julian 'Cannonball’ Adderly
LATE We are not ever lost and nothing delays us. We carry the sun on our backs and cover such ground as you would not believe. We are the colonists of dark, the cousins of radiance, who shall bloom among you. Listen, do not move in your hard beds; we enter your rooms and the candles are lit as if by themselves, stars gather, dreams pour into your pillows, memories of the moon, warm bouquets of air. . . Listen, even now the breathing begins. --MARK STRAND
Another by Mark Strand from The New Yorker, this one for the completist. An early version of "The Coming of Light" (one of his most celebrated poems), "Late" was never collected, and hence, has been relegated to the dustbin of literary history. Enjoy!
Evelyn Axell ~ La Conductrice et son double / Les DS, 1965
#EvelynAxell #PopArt #ContemporaryArt
Illustration from Mémoires d'un Éléphant Blanc by Judith Gartier, illustrated by M. Mucha and P. Ruty. #booksky #artsky #culturesky
HOUR The extra hour given back to eternity The hour gained by travelling west The hour of the imagined empire The deepest hour of the darkest sea The guilty hour that precedes catastrophe The hour that it takes to go from here to there The haunted hour of the knowledge of death The hour in which the moon darkens The hour that moves through the mind like cloud shadow The blue hour that rests on the roof of the house The hour that is the mother of minutes and grandmother of seconds The swollen hour of pain, enough, enough The hour when mice run in the walls The bronze hour of electrical weather The cloistered hour of the nun's great moment The necklace of hours the widow wears The numbing hours of a night in Nome The sound of hours in the breathing of plants The central hour that exists without you The hour in which the universe begins to die The hallucinatory hour that hangs forever The hour of excess that equals two of self-examination The hour that flashed on the skin The hour of final music The hour of painless solitude The hour of moonlight upon her body
Mark Strand's "Hour" as it first appeared in The New Yorker.
Odilon Redon, Le Printemps, 1883
Ben Webster
"Constantly I think of the Universe as one living creature, embracing one being and one soul; how all is absorbed into the one consciousness of this living creature;
- #MarcusAurelius
Photo by Man Ray
Steely Dan released their third studio album, “Pretzel Logic”, yesterday in 1974. It was the last album to feature the band’s full lineup and marked the band’s increasing use of session musicians.
John Coltrane and Count Basie...
Nina & Miles
Image that says "the cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek" Joseph Campbell
