Sichuan Squatting Drummer — Eastern Han Dynasty 1st-3rd Century AD
I love this figure who drums with abandon and joy. He makes me smile
Sichuan Squatting Drummer — Eastern Han Dynasty 1st-3rd Century AD
I love this figure who drums with abandon and joy. He makes me smile
When I rise up
let me rise up joyful
like a bird.
When I fall
let me fall without regret
like a leaf
Wendell Berry from Prayers and Sayings of the Mad
Farmer
Tradition teaches that soul lies midway between understanding and unconsciousness, and that its instrument is neither the mind nor the body, but imagination.” page xiii
Care Of The Soul Thomas Moore
My great-great-great-grandfather Milton Sewell and family
Alternate history is to history as jazz is to music — there is a agreed upon key that provides coherence but within that is great freedom for variation on the theme.
The Marriage Feast At Cana — Jan Vermeyen (c. 1530) Amsterdam Rilksmuseum
All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.”
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 – 1973), The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954
I am on my way through home today for the funeral of a great lady. My insides have been preparing since yesterday. it is interesting how our unconscious manages our inner life without telling our ego. We are indeed wondrously made and created.
Influenza virus
If we will stick with our inner experiences and not panic in the face of them, we will ultimately make it through.
Carl Jung