“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”
– H. G. Wells
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Monthly Archives: February 2022
Reading
“Reading is an act of civilization; it’s one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities.”
– Ben Okri
Art – Tavik Frantisek Simon – Vilma Reading on a Sofa, 1912.
The Art of Conversation
“Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.”
– Somerset Maugham
Art – René Magritte – L’art de la conversation [The Art of Conversation], 1950
Pale stars of the evening
“The pale stars were sliding into their places. The whispering of the leaves was almost hushed. All about them it was still and shadowy and sweet. It was that wonderful moment when, for lack of a visible horizon, the not yet darkened world seems infinitely greater—a moment when anything can happen, anything be believed in.”
― Olivia Howard Dunbar, The Shell of Sense
Otto Valstad 1862-1950
Norwegian educator, painter, book illustrator and children’s writer
Evening at the Arno – 1913
Love nebula
“Tenderness is the currency of love”
I believe that above everything there hovers a Nebula of love.
And randomly, one builds a stairway to the nebula and starts throwing buckets of love to you.
Because it is sweet and warm, you confuse it with wild rain drops in midsummer or huge snowflakes or just candy floss.
Whenever I feel the beautiful rain and the snowflakes thawing fire on my cheek, I’ll know you’re there in the nebula, dumping buckets full of love in my head…
Featured on Medium/ the Blue Insights publication.
https://medium.com/blueinsight/love-nebula-2c4097008761
Art – Haruyo Morita, Love Letter. Source: Facebook
The wisdom of life
“The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge. Let us be silent, content in our little corner, meek and gentle like them. That is the wisdom of life.”
– W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, 1919
Art – Paul Gauguin, Coastal Landscape from Martinique
To win
“To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Art – Henry Moret
Tomorrow
Paragon of hope
Burning sorrow
of the morrow
Is the secret
of Tomorrow.
Published on Blue Insights, a Medium publication.
https://medium.com/blueinsight/tomorrow-93113ee374a9
Art – Guido Borelli. Source: Pinterest
Real
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut
Art – Robert Panitzsch (German -Danish painter)
By love
“Call us what you will: we are made such by love.”
― Delmore Schwartz
Art – Olle Hjortzberg (Swedish, 1872–1959)
“Amaryllis in the Window”
