By Heart
October 16, 2021
Hollye Levin and Jim Brickman
Performed by Laura Creamer and Jim Brickman
From the album By Heart: Piano Solos
From the album By Heart: Piano Solos
1995
Whisper Of The Heart
October 15, 2021

British Vogue
October 14, 2021

Steven Meisel
2021
Spread Of Covid-19 - Feb 2020 Thru Oct 2021
October 13, 2021
the spread of COVID-19 visualized pic.twitter.com/zIaSkQrqr2
— John B. Holbein (@JohnHolbein1) October 9, 2021
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
October 12, 2021

Ah, what can ail thee, wretched wight,
Alone and palely loitering;
The sedge is withered from the lake,
And no birds sing.
Alone and palely loitering;
The sedge is withered from the lake,
And no birds sing.
Ah, what can ail thee, wretched wight,
So haggard and so woe-begone?
The squirrel's granary is full,
And the harvest's done.
So haggard and so woe-begone?
The squirrel's granary is full,
And the harvest's done.
I see a lilly on thy brow,
With anguish moist and fever dew;
And on thy cheek a fading rose
Fast withereth too.
With anguish moist and fever dew;
And on thy cheek a fading rose
Fast withereth too.
I met a lady in the meads
Full beautiful, a faery's child;
Her hair was long, her foot was light,
And her eyes were wild.
Full beautiful, a faery's child;
Her hair was long, her foot was light,
And her eyes were wild.
I set her on my pacing steed,
And nothing else saw all day long;
For sideways would she lean, and sing
A faery's song.
And nothing else saw all day long;
For sideways would she lean, and sing
A faery's song.
I made a garland for her head,
And bracelets too, and fragrant zone;
She looked at me as she did love,
And made sweet moan.
And bracelets too, and fragrant zone;
She looked at me as she did love,
And made sweet moan.
She found me roots of relish sweet,
And honey wild, and manna dew;
And sure in language strange she said,
I love thee true.
And honey wild, and manna dew;
And sure in language strange she said,
I love thee true.
She took me to her elfin grot,
And there she gazed and sighed deep,
And there I shut her wild sad eyes—
So kissed to sleep.
And there she gazed and sighed deep,
And there I shut her wild sad eyes—
So kissed to sleep.
And there we slumbered on the moss,
And there I dreamed, ah woe betide,
The latest dream I ever dreamed
On the cold hill side.
And there I dreamed, ah woe betide,
The latest dream I ever dreamed
On the cold hill side.
I saw pale kings, and princes too,
Pale warriors, death-pale were they all;
Who cried—"La belle Dame sans merci
Hath thee in thrall!"
Pale warriors, death-pale were they all;
Who cried—"La belle Dame sans merci
Hath thee in thrall!"
I saw their starved lips in the gloam
With horrid warning gaped wide,
And I awoke, and found me here
On the cold hill side.
With horrid warning gaped wide,
And I awoke, and found me here
On the cold hill side.
And this is why I sojourn here
Alone and palely loitering,
Though the sedge is withered from the lake,
And no birds sing.
Alone and palely loitering,
Though the sedge is withered from the lake,
And no birds sing.
John Keats
1819
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
October 11, 2021

Arthur Hughes
1863
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
October 10, 2021

La Belle Dame Sans Merci
October 9, 2021

‘Eco-Anxiety’: Fear Of Environmental Doom Weighs On Young People
October 8, 2021

The climate crisis is taking a growing toll on the mental health of children and young people, experts have warned.
Increasing levels of “eco-anxiety” – the chronic fear of environmental doom – were likely to be underestimated and damaging to many in the long term, public health experts said.
Writing in the British Medical Journal, Mala Rao and Richard Powell, of Imperial College London’s Department of Primary Care and Public Health, said eco-anxiety “risks exacerbating health and social inequalities between those more or less vulnerable to these psychological impacts”.
In their article, they pointed to a 2020 survey of child psychiatrists in England showing that more than half (57%) are seeing children and young people distressed about the climate crisis and the state of the environment.
A recent international survey of climate anxiety in young people aged 16 to 25 showed that the psychological burdens of climate crisis were “profoundly affecting huge numbers of these young people around the world”, they added.
God In Your Own Image
October 7, 2021

You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out God hates all the same people you do.
Anne Lamott
Borrowing from her Jesuit priest friend Tom Watson in the book Bird by Bird
Photo by Patricia McCarty on Pexels
Landscape With The Flight Into Egypt
October 6, 2021

Joachim Patinir
1515
Trieste
October 5, 2021

Daisy Jane
October 4, 2021
Wasted Days
October 2, 2021
October Road
October 1, 2021
September Grass
September 30, 2021
Hello Sunshine
September 29, 2021
You know I always loved a lonely town
Those empty streets, no one around
You fall in love with lonely, you end up that way
Those empty streets, no one around
You fall in love with lonely, you end up that way
Self Portrait
September 28, 2021

Edgar Degas
1863
Lassen Volcanic National Park
September 27, 2021

Don Chester Powell
1938