Any great artwork ... revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.—Leonard Bernstein … [Read more...] about Great Artwork
Rootedness
The soul wants to keep us rooted in the ground of our own being, resisting the tendency of other faculties, like the intellect and the ego, to uproot us from who we [truly] are.—Parker J. Parker … [Read more...] about Rootedness
Mighty trees will fall …
Mighty trees will fall, their trunks becoming fertile ground for new growth and life yet unseen. So it would be with our elders and all of the generations to come after them.—Barbara Becker, Heartwood … [Read more...] about Mighty trees will fall …
Never Be Hopeless
We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken.—Albert Einstein … [Read more...] about Never Be Hopeless
Trees
I think that I shall never seeA poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prestAgainst the earth’s sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day,And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in Summer wearA nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain;Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me,But only God … [Read more...] about Trees
