“Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.” – Gerard De Nerval
Art by Rob Gonsalves.
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Friendship
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.” – C.S. Lewis
Art: Edmund Blair Leighton – The Ticket, 1852-1922.
Solitude
“Solitude is not chosen, any more than destiny is chosen. Solitude comes to us if we have within us the magic stone that attracts destiny.” – Herman Hesse
Art – Eiler Sørensen – A Woman Standing by an Open Sunlit Window, 1869 – 1953.
Be Daring!
“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.” – Cecil Beaton
Art photography by Cecil Beaton.
Today’s poem: Writers of the Imperfect Maps
A Day In June
And what is so rare as a day in June?
Then, if ever, come perfect days;
Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune,
And over it softly her warm ear lays;
Whether we look, or whether we listen,
We hear life murmur, or see it glisten…
―James Russell Lowell
Art: Laurits Andersen Ring, In the Month of June, 1899.
Living
You will never get any more out of life than you expect – Bruce Lee
Art – Sergey Kustarev
Read more: June
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The Month of June
The month of June is named after Juno, the Roman goddess of marriage, childbirth, and fertility; Hera is her Greek counterpart.
Juno’s holy animals are the peacock, the cuckoo, and the cow, and her chariot is drawn by peacocks rather than horses.
Art – Jessie Arms Botke
The Night
“I love to watch the fine mist of the night come on,
The windows and the stars illumined, one by one,
The rivers of dark smoke pour upward lazily,
And the moon rise and turn them silver. I shall see
The springs, the summers, and the autumns slowly pass;
And when old Winter puts his blank face to the glass,
I shall close all my shutters, pull the curtains tight,
And build me stately palaces by candlelight.”
― Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
Art – Felix Vallotton
Spring Evening
“That is one good thing about this world…there are always sure to be more springs.”
― L.M. Montgomery
Art – Takahashi Shotei – Spring Evening
Remembering Pain
“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
Art – Michele Cascella, Aranceto a Ortona (Orange grove in Ortona),1957
