Blessings for the New Year
“Let there be peace. Grant goodness, blessing, and grace, constancy and compassion to us all.
Avinu — bless and unite all human beings in the light of your presence; for your light has shown us a holy path for living: devotion to love, generosity, blessedness, mercy, life, and peace.”
- from CCAR Machzor for Rosh Hashanah
Beth Orton - "Lonely"
Brittany Shepherd - Three Paintings
Cream (2022)
Shoot (2022)
Cadence (2022)
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Marsden Hartley - Detail from Mount Katahdin, Autumn, No. 2 (1939-40)
Ashok Singha - Private Pools, New York City
Donna Summer - "I Feel Love"
Tennis - "Seafarer"
Paul Cezanne and Anselm Kiefer - Two Paintings
Cezanne - Grand Bouquet of Flowers - 1892-1895
Anselm Kiefer - The Morgenthau Plan - 2012
Hannah Arendt, from "Eichmann in Jersualem"
“Justice…demands seclusion, it permits sorrow rather than anger, and it prescribes the most careful abstention from all the nice pleasures of putting oneself in the limelight.”
The Nike of Samothrace (190 BC, at the Louvre)
Ricky Bernstein - "Art in the Afternoon" (1979)
Hughie Lee-Smith - "Actress" (1993)
Barbara Chase-Riboud - "Malcolm X #3" (1969)
Marc Chagall - "In the Night" (1943)
Graciela Iturbide - "Na' Marcelina, Juchitan, Oaxaca" (1984)
Wildfire Smoke Reaches Philadelphia, September 2020
From "Vagabond" (1985), dir. by Agnes Varda
Li Bai (701-762)
A crowd of peaks, blue,
touches the heavens.
Free, not counting the years.