Friday, 18 September 2009

• Fine Art Friday:Kindred Spirits

  

  Asher Durand's fine tribute to artist Thomas Cole and poet William Cullen Bryant keeps coming to mind even weeks after I viewed the original at the Met and was scolded for using a flash inside the museum.

  So, without beleaguring you with stream of consciousness thoughts, here's my synopsis a la Goethe...

  One ought every day, at least, to

  hear a little song:
  Blessed - Songs for the Beatitudes
  by Judy Rogers

  read a good poem:
  Go forth under the open sky, and list
  To Naure's teachings, while from all around--
  Earth and her waters, and the depths of air--
  Comes a still voice:--
  from Thanatopsis

  see a fine picture:
  Kindred Spirits
  Private Collection, Walton Family Foundation

  and if possible,

  speak a few reasonable words:
  I suggest that we let them have it (bland hyperbole), and avoid their (corporate media) persuasive strategies in favor of the plainness, clarity, beauty, and even elegance in the worship, song and speech we share, and that we also remember the power of silence in a culture of noise.  A "still small voice" still speaks beneath the whirlwind.
  Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

   

  Now I'm ready to face the day.

   

   

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