Water Garden at Giverny (Reproduction) If someone lived your life today, would they have any regrets tomorrow? Would you recommend the life you live to anyone else? Suppose the person you love most decided to live the way you plan to live today, thinking your thoughts, saying your words, and making your choices? Would theyContinue reading “Claude Monet”
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William Butler Yeats ~ S. M. Hart
Virginia at Eighteen When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love falseContinue reading “William Butler Yeats ~ S. M. Hart”
Pierre-August Renoir
The Pont des Artes, Paris 1867-68 (Reproduction) I appreciate my shadow. It introduces me to people, It admires every view with me, It does Tai Chi with me in the morning and walks with me in the afternoon. If I ever take up golf, it will be my caddy. S. M. Hart
Joseph Kleitsch
Laguna on a Cloudy Day 1930 (Reproduction) When you sail to Byzantium, You eventually reach the shore Where your memories outnumber your visions; Where you no longer ask “Is it worth it?” But “Was it worth it?”
Bluefish Cove, Point Lobos
Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means, Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea. Dylan Thomas ~ Fern Hill
T. S. Eliot ~ S. M. Hart
Whaler’s Cove, Point Lobos 2021 I grow old…I grow old… I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach? I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I have heard the mermaids singing each to each. I do notContinue reading “T. S. Eliot ~ S. M. Hart”
Christina Rossetti ~ S. M. Hart
Headland Cove, Point Lobos. 2021 For there is no friend like a sister In calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, To fetch one if one goes astray, To lift one if one totters down, To strengthen whilst one stands. Goblin Market 1862
William Butler Yeats ~ S. M. Hart
The Gnarly Tree. 2022 Come away, O human child! To the water and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand. The Stolen Child 1886, 1889
William Blake ~ Claude Monet
Water Garden at Giverney 1904 (Reproduction) The Lilly of the valley breathing in the humble grass Answer’d the lovely maid and said: “I am a watry weed, So weak, the gilded butterfly scarce perches on my head; Yet I am visited from heaven, and he that smiles on all Walks in the valley and eachContinue reading “William Blake ~ Claude Monet”
Ethel Miller ~ Dylan Thomas
Grandma Miller’s Painting ca. 1960 (Reproduction) “And once below a time I lordly had the trees and leaves Trail with daisies and barley Down the rivers of the windfall light.” Fern Hill 1946
Objects in a Bag 