Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you. — Marsha Norman
Archive for December, 2011
On Dreams
Posted in Observations on December 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
“Hodie Christus natus est”
Posted in Images, Jane's Occasional Poems, The Daily Poems, tagged hodie christus natus est on December 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Hodie Christus natus est. Hodie salvator apparuit. Hodie in terra canunt angeli. Letantur arcangeli. Hodie exultant iusti dicentes: Gloria in excelsis Deo. Alleluia.
“Hummingbirds” by Mary Oliver
Posted in The Daily Poems, tagged Hummingbirds, Mary Oliver, Violet Sabrewing, White Pine on December 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The female, and two chicks, each no bigger than my thumb, scattered, shimmering in their pale-green dresses; then they rose, tiny fireworks, into the leaves and hovered; then they sat down, each one with dainty, charcoal feet – each one on a slender branch – and looked at me. I had meant no harm, I [...]
“Annunciation” by Jane Beal
Posted in Jane's Occasional Poems, tagged " Jane Beal, Annunciation, Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Leonardo da Vinci on December 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s ”Annunciation” Annunciation Plein-aire painters by the lake in Belmar look curiously at their canvases, the bright blue sky, the pine-dark evergreens, the yellow aspen leaves as they wind-fall down from white boughs to the em-pathed earth that curves around to the muddy shoreline and the water-birds—ducks, geese, cormorants, seagulls, egrets, Great Blue Herons—all [...]
