At a concert here last evening they played some Scott Joplin and Leroy Anderson while on the walls the portraits of nobles who once lived here looked down at us with knitted brows.
Saturday, October 24, 2015
Thursday, October 08, 2015
Friday, August 21, 2015
Wednesday, August 12, 2015
Thursday, August 06, 2015
Insight ? ~
"For me pain has no meaning."
Statement by Peter Hintze
Vice President of the German Bundestag.
Protestant theologian,
while debating assisted suicide.
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Monday, June 22, 2015
Helps in Life ~
What this Carthusian monk does,
in silence and solitude,
is my constant strengthening inspiration.
La Grande Chartreuse, Grenoble, France
Friday, June 12, 2015
Friday, May 08, 2015
To a Razor ~
Praised be you, my razor,
for serving me for six months,
unlike those that needed new blades daily
back when I was twenty-one.
Thursday, April 16, 2015
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Nazi Concentration Liberated ~ April 15, 1945
Shades of Shoah
One Sunday morning in Munich
Seventy years later
Six suitcases painted white
Stood on a sidewalk
Each with a rose stuck on
And nametags.
People walked past,
Stopped, bent over to read
And continued on
With shoulders stooped—
Wrenched from Sunday calm.
Friday, March 27, 2015
To Understand the World ~
"To understand the world at all, sometimes you could only focus on a tiny bit of it, look very hard at what was close to hand and make it stand in for the whole. . ."
from: The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt
Thursday, February 05, 2015
Outside My Window ~
Saturday, January 31, 2015
Merton's 100th Birthday ~
Monday, January 12, 2015
Mothers of the Fallen ~
Sunday, January 04, 2015
We Are All Brothers ~
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