Pablo Picasso, Violin and Grapes, Céret and Sorgues, spring-summer 1912 #museumofmodernart #museumarchive

Merriam-Webster Some phrases are so well-known you don't need to say the whole thing to be understood. You can say "birds of a feather" without saying "flock together." -“When life hands you lemons…” -“Great minds…” -“When in Rome…” Such partial phrases are called 'anapodotons.' Junichi Nakamura

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Chagall/Shofar

larson

More Celebration of the Music of Gustav Theodore Holst! (September 21, 1874 – May 25, 1934) Here’s a very seldom performed work, his Double Violin Concerto, and the second movement, Lament, is a piece of mystical forlornness and beauty: youtu.be/kzGhbK2M760?...

More Celebration of the Music of Gustav Theodore Holst! (September 21, 1874 – May 25, 1934) This is the piece that probably influenced more sci-fi movie scores than any other music in history, from The Planets: Movement 1: Mars – The Bringer of War: www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

Fred Herzog Curtains Vancouver, 1972

It’s a surreal moment when you actually see Giant Sequoia in the wild for the first time Your mind is conditioned to nature on TV with music as a background. So when you finally see them close up, you kind of expect a fanfare of trumpets, but the silence is deafening

"moonflowers ― the beauty of hidden things" Chiyo-ni * * * (image: Toshikata Mizuno) Kazuko M.

(16) Gluck : Orfeo ed Euridice (Kozlovsky & Shumskaya) - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=141B...

'I am also at work on a cryselephantine poem of immeasurable length which will occupy me for the next four decades unless it becomes a bore.' — Ezra Pound, in a letter dated September 21, 1915

Adam Grant Next time you're going to insult someone, borrow from Shakespeare. I've always dreamed of being called an artless folly-fallen bugbear...

peaklass Layer upon layer of land intersects, weaving wooded valleys together to form a ribbon of green stretching into the distant hills. And Hathersage church, like a little boat adrift in a sea of trees, catching the light of the early autumn sun.

Verwischt... "Blumen sind die schönsten Worte der Natur..." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) 📷Roland Heinrichs #nature #photography #flickr flic.kr/p/2oXXZ3e

(16) Gustav Holst "Movimiento Lírico para viola y pequeña orquesta,H. 191" - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz03...

MONET

Panique (1946) Directed by Julian Duvivier Alan Zachary Part murder mystery, part nihilistic romance, and part angry indictment of social dysfunction, distrust and mass hysteria, "Panic" is a movie that merits far more recognition.

Another Nadav Kander portrait of Werner Herzog, for a 2011 GQ feature "Herzog’s movies were different from anyone else’s. They captured our imagination. They held us prisoner. They made us question everything we’d been taught. They made us want to be brave." - Paul Holdengraber

Francisco Ribeiro “When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” - Marcus Aurelius * * * (art: Mary Bradish Titcomb: Morning Coffee)

Basho's Haiku 'River breeze — wearing pale persimmon robes, the evening cool.' (trans. Hass)

Henri Matisse, Memory of Oceania, Nice-Cimiez, Hôtel Régina, summer 1952-early 1953 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135084

'Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.' Emily Dickenson * * * ~ Willy Ronis

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The slight gust of wind you feel in woodland is the brush of a passing angel's wing

• Wendell Berry •

(16) Vladimir Sofronitsky plays Schumann Carnaval Op.9 - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zsa...

one most perilous and long voyage ended, only begins a second; and a second ended, only begins a third, and so on, for ever and for aye

We tend to make language shorter over time, except when we make it longer. www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/l...

Aos meus amig@s, judeus ou não, a partir do pôr do sol do dia 22/09/2025 tem início o Rosh Hashaná, o Ano-Novo judaico. Viveremos até o Yom Kippur o que se denomina os 10 dias terríveis. Que tod@s sejamos inscritos no Livro da Vida para o 5786 - um ano mais solidário, generoso e de paz.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone #Flowers #flowerphotography #nature #NaturePhotography

Bialik/Rilke (Two poetry collections acquired, 13 Sept. 2025) biblioklept.org/2025/09/18/b...

(16) The Hobbit, Pt. 1 - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=msbn...

Dinu Lipatti & Nadia Boulanger (clavierissimo)

Moto Perpetuo (2015) for Two Pianos Nicolas Kingman by Nicolas Kingman soundcloud.com/nicolas-king...

Remembering Robert Redford (with Blake Howard) thefilmstage.com/the-b-side-r...

Keisuke Yamamoto (Japan, b. 1979-) Light Time Silence #32, 2021 lithograph

Circe Invidiosa — John William Waterhouse

Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley-glades: Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music -- Do I wake or sleep? -John Keats * * * Giverny, Jardins de Monet

New week's cover of The New Yorker, "Remote Control," by Barry Blitt.

Joel Graham

‪Merriam-Webster‬ -cease and desist -null and void -aid and abet -free and clear -ways and means Why is law stuff like this always two words? These are called ‘legal doublets’ and we can once again blame the Normans.

Sailboat at Le Petit-Gennevilliers, Claude Monet 1874

Main Cinema, Minneapolis

Bonjour! xoxo * * * "Autumn is a melancholy and graceful andante which admirably prepares for the solemn adagio of winter." So wrote the French novelist George Sand in 1848.