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Heaven in ordinary or practicing resurrection. Beautiful.

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Riveters 1936 Stanley Spencer Spencer was a painter infused with an anticipated, very earthly vision of the joy of heaven

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Famous Heroes of the Kabuki Stage Played by Frogs, by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, ca. 1875

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'Woman Sewing.' 1909 by Laurits Andersen Ring.

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Figure from a Crèche: Attendant of the Magi, 1780 - 1830, Naples

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Not one’s usual thing - a classic of Japanese detective fiction - an awful lot of train timetables but weirdly satisfying!

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besharamagazine.org/arts-literat... A wonderful article on AE George Russell in this month’s Beshara.

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A tree aflood and an oak sheltering moles …

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Tree Form 1941 by Graham Sutherland

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Baxter's accomplished exploration of why C.S. Lewis took the "Middle Ages" seriously as a scholar and, more importantly, as tools with which to think about the modern world and our predicaments. ncolloff.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-...

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Greatly enjoyed her novel on Emily Carr, and likewise this. Art history and engaged lives.

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'King Midas with his daughter, from Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1893 edition of A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys by Walter Crane

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'Building the Pyramids' 1933 by Jean Charlot

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The Reader 1892 by Odilon Redon. My future laid out before me 🙂

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"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep." ~ Saul Bellow

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R.S. Thomas

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Fortune Telling - Three Girls, 1946 by Halyna Mazepa. Born in St. Petersburg to Ukrainian parents, Mazepa grew up in Prague, when her father was exiled by the Soviet regime, in 1947, she and her husband emigrated to Venezuela.

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At the lake …

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Marion looking remarkably serious on the cover, not how I recall her, but looking forward to this exploration of her approach to creativity in life.

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Circumvent the ticketing at Notre Dame by simply going to Mass - a resplendent restoration.

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"Hope is an ability to work for something because it is good, not because it stands a chance to succeed. It is not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out." Vaclav Havel

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This includes a moving account of Paul's experience of how yoga had a transformative effect on his life while in prison and now on the outside. Helping found the Trust remains one of the best things I have done, with the deepest admiration for all who continue its work. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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The Dreaming Fool 1942 by Cecil Collins

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What is your deepest interest? How does it govern a life? How does it reveal itself in the afterlife? It is a compelling, unsettling novel indebted to the Swedish visionary, Swedenborg. ncolloff.blogspot.com/2020/04/half...

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A good summary of Buber's life and work. www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

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Epiphany, 2023, by Augustin Frison-Roche.

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A prophet being honored not in his own country …

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Enjoying this exposition of Thomas Keating’s mature experimenting of the unfolding mystery.

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Hakuin was a poet, calligrapher, and artist, as well as a Zen master, and the beautiful simplicity, humor, and grace of his work can be seen here in one of his most famous representations - of blind men on a bridge. ncolloff.blogspot.com/2013/09/nove...

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"Grief's metamorphoses: Anguish, small pregnant seed, Becomes a worm that gnaws through years At last quiescent lies; not dead; Till waking, what winged impulse takes the skies?" ncolloff.blogspot.com/2012/05/on-d...

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As remarkable as I remember it, it is an extraordinary portrayal in Aunt Sybil of the unobtrusive, resilient nature of the actual Good. ncolloff.blogspot.com/2014/08/aunt...

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"Hushing" Calm Before the Storm, 1890, by Nikolai Dubovskoy.

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Boats on a Pebbled Beach, 1970, by Tristram Hillier.

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Rediscovering letters from the artist, Thetis Blacker, reminded me of this appreciation of her friendship. ncolloff.blogspot.com/2014/01/a-pi...

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Remembering Kathleen Raine as I reread Farewell Happy Fields, the first volume of her Autobiographies (named thus in honor, and intimation, of Yeats). ncolloff.blogspot.com/2019/06/ligh...

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Georgia O’Keeffe : Wave, Night 1928

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Don't give me the whole truth, don't give me the sea for my thirst, don't give me the sky when I ask for light, but give me a glint, a dewy wisp, a mote as the birds bear water-drops from their bathing and the wind a grain of salt. ncolloff.blogspot.com/2018/03/lumi...

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With thanks to Alastair McIntosh for this quotation from C.S. Lewis, writing in a pre-internet age, and I concur.

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Baxter's accomplished exploration of why C.S. Lewis took the "Middle Ages" seriously as a scholar and, more importantly, as tools with which to think about the modern world and our predicaments. ncolloff.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-...

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Searching for lost papers in a neglected box, I found what I was looking for and other lost treasures (including my premium bonds) and a reference letter from Rowan Williams extolling my apparent virtues! A nostalgic morning!

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The Strait of Juan de Fuca, 1936, by Emily Carr.

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First book completed in the New Year - an engaging fictionalized account of the artist Emily Carr - chronicler of indigenous life and pioneering artist of a deep spiritual expressiveness.

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Re-reading this magical novel where some of the 'archetypes' spill into, and disturb, the fabric of everyday reality written with Williams' ability to make the 'extraordinary' feel every day. ncolloff.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-...

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The Sun goes down into the Sea, 1903 by August Strindberg.

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A long exposure on the coast of Oregon. #longexposure #nikon #seascape #coastalphotography #photo #art #photography #newyear #beach #oregon #thephotohour #landscapephotography #newyears #ocean #traveladdicts #travel #travelphotography

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