“Her rich attire creeps rustling to her knees:        Half-hidden, like a mermaid in sea-weed,        Pensive awhile she dreams awake” (John Keats) 🎨 John Everett Millais “Eve of St Agnes” (1863, detail) #eveofstagnes #booksky

#theidiot #fyodordostoevsky #meditation

For our now...and going forward

#250anniversary #RichardAllen #MLK #meditation

#defendersoftheeucharist #peterpaulrubens #VisioDivina #painting #meditation

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #TwoOfAKind #SandwichTern #waterbird #birds #wildlife #photography #Stunday #scape #nature #outdoors #thelittlethings @robcrank68.bsky.social @alan678.bsky.social

Day 1298 of #IansDailyPhotoChallenge and my 1st proper big swathe of snowdrops of the year today Who else loves the "this is my 1st ...... of the year" season then? 🤗 #inspiringnature #wildlife #naturephotography #MentalHealthMatters #365DaysWild

a science meditation for a Sunday afternoon... www.facebook.com/share/p/16rn...

Remembering Oliver Hardy on his birthday 🎂 📷 With Stan Laurel in a shot by Harry Warnecke, 1938 "Hardy went into films after having been a cinema owner—thus the pained bourgeois respectability he clung to in every crisis." - David Thomson

#sunriseessay #lambofgod #meditation #sonnet

#TheRedShoes #HansChristianAndersen #meditation #sonnet

#250thAnniversayRevolution #ThomasPaine #meditation

Treasure flower August 17th 2024

While compelled to live at Netherne Hospital for thirty years, Gwyneth Rowlands created many hundreds of work on flints & other found objects retrieved from the surrounding fields. Believing she had no imagination or aptitude for art, she was initially reluctant to attend the art therapy studio

Ashbery

“I have led too serious a life; but that perhaps, after all, preserves one’s youth.” Henry James on aging, memory, and what happiness really means

“Samuel Smith was the best part of thirty before anyone told him he was a wage-slave.” Gertrude Trevelyan's Theme with Variations (1937) is her angriest, most experimental novel, three disconnected tales of people trapped by family, economics, social constraints. neglectedbooks.com/?...

#sunriseessay #1Samuel #seers

#ChristInTheDesert #IvanKramskoi #VisioDivina #meditation #sonnet

Snowdrops, Perce-neige, La plante et ses applications ornementales, Grasset, Eugène (Compiler), Verneuil, Maurice Pillard (Artist).

"This is the chase: I am gone for ever. [Exit, pursued by a bear.]" quoth Antigonus in "A Winter's Tale". Today, we have yet another wintry tale for you, of straw bears and those for-ever bears who can make you weep in our 10th #winterfolklore tale – read it below!

FOTO (yellow & blue)

'Bloody Ghost' from the series 'Difficult to Distinguish between Good and Evil' - Adachi Ginko, ca. 1885. #PhantomsFriday #ukiyoe #JapaneseArt

#NoKings #ThenAsNow #Samuel #meditation #sonnet

#LeDeluge #LeonFrancoisComere #VisioDivina #meditation #sonnet

Celebrate Ivor Cutler’s birthday by watching one of the most divine pieces of television ever made. Dave Allen *and* Ivor Cutler, how could you possibly resist? youtu.be/6RX1fMWkims?...

👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 - Little Walsingham #Norfolk Snowdrops - 📷 14.01.2026 (Yesterday) #elevensestime

I, bird by Róisín Ní Neachtain Broken Sleep Books bared beauty, strong voice, it is wonderful

#allegoryofthelie #salvatorrosa #VisioDivina #meditation #sonnet

Man has to awaken to wonder – and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again. – #Wittgenstein

#asenseofdoubt #davidbowie #meditation #sonnet

#restoredtonewlife #ferdinandgeorgwaldmuller #VisioDivina #meditation #sonnet

#JesusChristdisposesses #meisterkonradvonfriesach #VisioDivina #meditation #sonnet

#EdFoster Ed Foster... gone, yet not gone...

Morton Feldman 100 the influence is deep

#noah #josephvonfurisch #drawing #VisioDivina #meditation #sonnet

A grebe in a spin! For #BirdOfTheDay, a #grebe in it's #natural habitat. Always on water as they cannot take to the air if on dry land. #UKWildlife #Birds #Ornithology #Grebe #WildlifePhotography #Photography #Nature

Wall hanging (detail) of Blossoming Tree (or Blütenbaum) created by Hermann Obrist around 1895. The work was executed by Berthe Ruchet.

#baptismofchrist #andreadelverrocchio #leonardodavinci #VisioDivina #meditation #sonnet

#christteachingatcapernaum #maurycygottleib #VisioDivina #meditation #sonnet

a wound remembers Weldon Kees, ‘Small Prayer’

St. John's Wort June 12th 2024

#theadversary #josephnoelpaton #VisioDivina #meditation #sonnet

St. Patrick’s purgatory in the Alsacian manuscript Legenda Aurea, 1419.

“Speak you too, speak as the last, say out your say. Speak But don’t split off No from Yes. Give your say this meaning too: Give it the shadow....” Paul Celan. # ph. Hasse Nielsen#Paul Celan