A crowd of peaks, blue,
touches the heavens.
Free, not counting the years.
From Bergman's "Fanny and Alexander" (1982)
Dilly's Corner, Bucks County
A Scott Chambers Original
My dad’s an amazing furniture maker, check it out: http://finewoodworksinc.net/
"Old Joy" (2006) - dir. by Kelly Reichardt
Ravel - from the "Mother Goose" suite: VI. Laideronnette
Gregory Halpern - Three Photos (from "Omaha Sketchbook" - Mack Books)
All photos copyright @Gregory Halpern
Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia
Laura Gilpin - The Grand Canyon (detail) - 1920s
Haydn - Adagio from Symphony no. 22
Wallace Stevens, From "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
XIII
It was evening all afternoon.
It was snowing
And it was going to snow.
The blackbird sat
In the cedar-limbs.
Death Cab for Cutie - "Little Fury Bugs"
Hyatt Regency, O'Hare Airport
The "flower duet" from Leo Delibes' opera, "Lakme"
Thomas Merton, from "Seasons of Celebration"
“…The year is not just another year: it is the year of the Lord—a year in which the passage of time itself brings us not only the natural renewal of spring and the fruitfulness of an earthly summer, but also the spiritual and interior fruitfulness of grace.”
First Midwest Bank - Chicago
Los Angeles - Three Photos
Proust on Charity, from the "Combray" Section of "Swann's Way"
“…When, later, I had occasion to meet, in the course of my life, in convents for instance, truly saintly embodiments of practical charity, they generally had the cheerful, positive, indifferent, and brusque air of a busy surgeon, the sort of face in which one can read no commiseration, no pity in the face of human suffering, no fear of offending it, the sort which is the ungentle face, the antipathetic and sublime face of true goodness.”
- Marcel Proust,