youtu.be/66ph4ourNf4?... My elder brother introduced me to Joan Baez's songs and I have loved them ever since. Even though way out of my age group, I still love her songs!

Georgia O’Keeffe, Lake George Reflection, 1922 #Womensart

Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who wake, or watch, or weep this night, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. #nightprayer

Friday #morningread

The light flows from their branches. And they call again, “It’s simple,” they say, “and you too have come into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled with light, and to shine.” Mary Oliver (2006) #photography #PatelyBridge #PotD #trees #sunlight #shadow #light #poetry #MaryOliver #cross

‘Saner than You Think’ - #RSThomas ("Night Ride and Sunrise” Celtion Poetry, Aberystwyth 1978) #Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd #Poet #Poetry #Poem

‘Poems in Flight’ - #RSThomas (Selected Poems 2004, Penguin)

God, you created day and night, darkness and light. All of this day we commend to you; keep us this night in your grace. #nightprayer

‘The Hearth’ - #RSThomas (H'm, Macmillan)

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. #nightprayer

Dydd Santes Dwynwen Hapus i chi gyd! ❤️❤️ Happy St. Dwynwen’s Day to you all!❤️❤️ In Cymru (Wales) & for Cymry (Welsh people) everywhere, today (25th January) is Dydd Santes Dwynwen – St. Dwynwen’s Day. Dwynwen is the Welsh Saint of Love. ‘Luminary’ - #RSThomas (Uncollected Poems, @BloodaxeBooks)

The Lord bless us, and preserve us from all evil, and bring us to everlasting life. #nightprayer

I’ve been thinking about what makes a life legible — not impressive or persuasive, just readable as belonging to something deeper. This one was shaped by Scripture, a lot of internal questions, and my unexpected love for The Brothers Karamazov. findingfaithagain.substack.com/p/pep-talk-t...

‘The Lane’ - #RSThomas (Critical Review 11.1 Spring 1969) #yLôn #Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd #Poet #Poetry #Poem

The Lord is near to all who call on him. #nightprayer

from tears to laugh is also a journey #art #abstract #painting #humanart #journey #poetry

‘A Marriage’ - #RSThomas (Mass for Hard Times, @BloodaxeBooks)

‘When we are weak…’ - #RSThomas (from AD in Counterpoint, @BloodaxeBooks)

‘Which’ - #RSThomas (Laboratories of the Spirit, Macmillan)

Apparently it's Blue Monday today, but instead of focusing on THAT, let's shift our attention instead to THIS. A little bit of poetry. 'The Good' by Brendan Kennelly

‘Ceridwen’ - #RSThomas (Transatlantic Review 18 [1965] ) #Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd #Poet #Poetry #Poem

Sister and Friend, 2024 ♀ by Betty Acquah, Ghanaian feminist painter #WomensArt

‘In Town’ - #RSThomas (The Listener Vol LXVII No 1722, March 29 1962) #Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd #Poet #Poetry #Poem

“In the fury of the moment I can see the Master's hand In every leaf that trembles, in every grain of sand.” Bob Dylan (1980) #photography #Nature #Plants #Botany #PlantPhotography #Leaf #lyrics #BobDylan #Papaya #EcoArt

15 munud cyn y wawr, ddoe yng Nghaerdydd. 15 minutes before dawn, yesterday in Caerdydd.

15 munud cyn y wawr, ddoe yng Nghaerdydd. 15 minutes before dawn, yesterday in Caerdydd.

Sunday #morningread #WBYeats

‘Eh?’ - #RSThomas (New Poems 1963 - A P.E.N Anthology of Contemporary Poetry - Hutchings & Co) #Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd #Poet #Poetry #Poem

Bore rhewllyd yng Nghaerdydd. Frosty morning in Cardiff. #Cymru

Bore rhewllyd yng Nghaerdydd. Frosty morning in Cardiff. #Cymru

At our local allotments…

At our local allotments…

I used to procrastinate, but I just don't seem to get around to it any more…

‘Epiphany’ - #RSThomas (Frequencies, Macmillan) #Ystwyll #Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd #Poet #Poetry #Poem

Three Wise Men The heights were cold in the old bones, the lowland warm the desert hot in the day and freezing by night. Still they came, a parade seeking God, who had called them with a star. Many a night huddled for warmth they sought other signs but only a star in the cold bright sky answered…

‘A Farmer’ - #RSThomas ( "Wales" [No2 Oct/Nov/Dec 1943] ) #Ffermwr #Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd #Poet #Poetry #Poem

Petunia II https://www.wikiart.org/en/georgia-o-keeffe/petunia-ii

Contemporary Polish painter Martha Zamarska #WomensArt #January

‘To Church’ - #RSThomas (Poetry, 100.2, (1962): 81-2) #Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd #Poet #Poetry #Poem

Red Hill and White Shell https://www.wikiart.org/en/georgia-o-keeffe/red-hill-and-white-shell

Final pic of the year. 🧡✌🏻

Finished my last painting of 2025! Acrylic on 9x12 canvas. Chimney Rock in Kentucky. Happy New Year! #acrylic #acrylicpainting #artist #artists #art #painting #originalart #traditionalart #landscape #Maine #newyear #fineart #mountain #kentucky #acrylicart #sunset

Happy New Year, everyone! www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOtj...

Blwyddyn Newydd Dda i chi gyd! Happy New Year to you all! ‘Blwyddyn yn Llŷn - Ionawr’ ‘A Year in Llŷn - January’ #RSThomas

Blwyddyn Newydd Dda i chi gyd! Happy New Year to you all!

‘In Church’ - #RSThomas (Pietà, Rupert Hart-Davis)

Jamaican artist Ebony G. Patterson's art tells the untold stories of her homeland in her mixed media artworks #WomensArt

Two parrots are sitting on a perch. One turns to the other and asks, "do you smell fish?" #jokes #dadjoke #funny

'No' - #RSThomas (Poetry, 100.2, (1962): 82) #Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd #Poet #Poetry #Poem

Contemporary Northumberland printmaker Rebecca Vincent #WomensArt