From "Stella Maris" - Cormac McCarthy
Why do you let me bully you?
I don’t know. Do I?
It’s not important. The world you live in is shored up by a collective of agreements. Is that something you think about? The hope is that the truth of the world somehow lies in the common experience of it. Of course the history of science and mathematics and even philosophy is a good bit at odds with this notion. Innovation and discovery by definition war against the common understanding. One should be wary.
Bill Withers - "Sweet Wanomi"
Eclipse - photo by Jessica Rinaldi
Ewan MacColl - "Dirty Old Town"
Richmond Raceway - Richmond, VA
From Saint Luke
“…And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre…”
24:2
Ugalino da Siena - "The Last Supper", c. 1325-1330
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra - Dawn Upshaw singing Vivaldi's "Domine Deus", from Gloria
Richard Serra (1938 - 2024) - Sculptures from Bilbao
Joyce Mansour translated by Emilie Moorhouse, from "Black Holes"
“…May he remind you
of the evening hour
where swam in the distance
islands laughing
of our love…”
Whole sequence at https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/160303/from-black-holes
"Digging Out" (1989) - Lowell Boileau
"Morning Glory Pool, Yellowstone" - John Henry Twachtman (1895)
"Jordan and Ingrid" - Rita Bernstein (2007)
"Christ as a Boy" - Francesco Bonsignori (c. 1510-1514)
From "Birches" - Robert Frost
“You may see their trunks arching in the woods
Years afterwards, trailing their leaves on the ground
Like girls on hands and knees that throw their hair
Before them over their heads to dry in the sun.”
Full poem: https://poets.org/poem/birches