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Haiku and the Brain
Posted in A Poet's Education, Images, Observations, The Daily Poems, The Reading Journals, tagged haiku and the brain research, Haiku Foundation on October 29, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Still Point
Posted in A Poet's Education, Images, Observations, Poetry Lessons, The Reading Journals, Uncategorized, tagged Christ, Still Point, T.S. Eliot on February 10, 2018| Leave a Comment »
The Name of Jesus
Posted in A Poet's Education, Observations, The Reading Journals, tagged Bernard of Clairvaux, honey, Music, song, the name of Jesus on November 28, 2017| 1 Comment »
Jesus mel in ore,
in aure melos,
in corde jubilus:
Jesus to me is
honey in the mouth,
music in the ear,
a song in the heart.
Bernard of Clairvaux
Translation from Bernard of Clairvaux, The Works of Bernard of Clairvaux: 2: On the Song of Songs I, trans. Kilian Walsh, intro. Corneille Halflants, Cistercian Fathers Series: Number 4 (Shannon: Irish University Press, 1971), 105-13.
COURAGEOUS
Posted in Images, Observations, The Reading Journals, tagged 2 Chronicles 15:7, courageous, heart, sky, strong on June 22, 2017| Leave a Comment »
I am a TOTALLY COURAGEOUS woman —
my HEART is bigger than the sky.
jb
“Be ye therefore STRONG and courageous
for your work will be rewarded.”
2 Chronicles 15:7
The Adventure of the Unicorn
Posted in A Poet's Education, Epiphany Artists, Images, Music, Observations, tagged " Jane Beal, clavicimbulum, Collaging, Corina Marti, Epiphany Artists, flute, Hildegard von Bingen, Jesus, Marilyn Roland, Unicorn, Victoria Bourne on May 19, 2016| Leave a Comment »
“I am the one”
Posted in Adventures, Observations, tagged clavicimbalum, Corina Marti, flute, I Dilettosi Fiori on May 13, 2016| Leave a Comment »
I am the one who, walking in greenery,
seeks delightful flowers.
Jacopo da Bologna
(from the I Dilettosi Fiori music program of Corina Marti)
Street Poem by Robert Montgomery
Posted in A Poet's Education, Observations, The Daily Poems, tagged Robert Montgomery on April 29, 2016| 1 Comment »
Plato on the Immortal Soul and Justice
Posted in A Poet's Education, Observations, tagged Helmet of Hades, immortality, injustice, justice, Plato, Republic, ring of Gyges, wisdom on December 8, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Socrates: Her immortality is demonstrated by the previous argument, and there are many other proofs; but to see her as she really is, not as we now behold her, marred by communion with the body and other miseries, you must contemplate her with the eye of reason, in her original purity; and then her beauty will be revealed, and justice and injustice and all the things which we have described will be manifested more clearly. Thus far, we have spoken the truth concerning her as she appears at present, but we must remember also that we have seen her only in a condition which may be compared to that of the sea-god Glaucus, whose original image can hardly be discerned because his natural members are broken off and crushed and damaged by the waves in all sorts of ways, and incrustations have grown over them of seaweed and shells and stones, so that he is more like some monster than he is to his own natural form. And the soul which we behold is in a similar condition, disfigured by ten thousand ills. But not there, Glaucon, not there must we look.
Glaucon: Where then?
Socrates: At her love of wisdom. Let us see whom she affects, and what society and converse she seeks in virtue of her near kindred with the immortal and eternal and divine; also how different she would become if wholly following this superior principle, and borne by a divine impulse out of the ocean in which she now is, and disengaged from the stones and shells and things of earth and rock which in wild variety spring up around her because she feeds upon earth, and is overgrown by the good things of this life as they are termed: then you would see her as she is, and know whether she has one shape only or many, or what her nature is. Of her affections and of the forms which she takes in this present life I think that we have now said enough.
Glaucon: True, he replied.
Socrates: And thus, I said, we have fulfilled the conditions of the argument; we have not introduced the rewards and glories of justice, which, as you were saying, are to be found in Homer and Hesiod; but justice in her own nature has been shown to be best for the soul in her own nature. Let a man do what is just, whether he have the ring of Gyges or not, and even if in addition to the ring of Gyges he put on the helmet of Hades.
Plato’s Republic X
Rain
Posted in Observations, Poetic Films, tagged lluvia en Sevilla, rain in spain on November 9, 2015| Leave a Comment »
“The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain.”
Gabriel Pacal
(qtd. in “My Fair Lady”)
Translated:
La lluvia en Sevilla es una maravilla!
Hope
Posted in Images, Observations, tagged faith, hope, tiptoe on October 5, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Heartmusic
Posted in Music, Observations, tagged alphonse de lamartine, heart, heartmusic, literature, Music on October 1, 2015| Leave a Comment »
“Music is the literature of the heart; it begins where speech ends.”
Alphonse de Lamartine
Rest and Be Thankful
Posted in A Poet's Education, Observations, The Daily Poems, tagged rest and be thankful, william wordsworth on September 29, 2015| Leave a Comment »
YARROW REVISITED, AND OTHER POEMS
COMPOSED (TWO EXCEPTED) DURING A TOUR IN SCOTLAND AND ON THE ENGLISH BORDER, IN THE AUTUMN OF 1831.
XIII. REST AND BE THANKFUL!”
AT THE HEAD OF GLENCROE
DOUBLING and doubling with laborious walk,
Who, that has gained at length the wished-for Height,
This brief, this simple wayside Call can slight,
And rests not thankful? Whether cheered by talk
With some loved friend, or by the unseen hawk
Whistling to clouds and sky-born streams that shine,
At the sun's outbreak, as with light divine,
Ere they descend to nourish root and stalk
Of valley flowers. Nor, while the limbs repose,
Will we forget that, as the fowl can keep 10
Absolute stillness, poised aloft in air,
And fishes front, unmoved, the torrent's sweep,--
So may the Soul, through powers that Faith bestows,
Win rest, and ease, and peace, with bliss that Angels share.
~ William Wordsworth
Inspiration
Posted in Images, Observations, tagged hunting, inspiration on September 25, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Sometimes you have to go hunting inspiration.
jb
September Sky
by
Stacey Jones
*
(… and sometimes, inspiration finds you!)
Truth
Posted in Observations, tagged truth on September 19, 2015| Leave a Comment »
“Came to my Rescue” by Hillsong
Posted in Images, Music, Observations, tagged came to my rescue, hillsong on September 13, 2015| Leave a Comment »
I called,
you answered:
You came to my rescue,
and I want to be
where you are.
~ Hillsong
A local construction worker, suspended from a crane, rescues a woman who fell into the Des Moines River near the Center Street Dam in downtown Des Moines, Iowa Tuesday, June 30, 2009. A man who also fell into the water died. (AP Photo/The Des Moines Register, Mary Chind) ** NO SALES, MAGS OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT **
Theology 101: It’s All Plan B
Posted in A Poet's Education, Images, Observations, tagged Eden, fall, Plan B, redemption on July 28, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Ever get the feeling that, somehow, your Plan A is out the window, and you’ve slipped into something less that perfect, less than what you hoped or imagine God intended, something that we might call, from a cultural and colloquial perspective, Plan B?
It’s a haunting feeling. It can become oppressive in its strength. After all, Plan B is that alternative strategy we try to apply when Plan A has failed or proved impossible to realize.
But recently it occurred to me that it’s all Plan B.
What God originally intended was Eden: perfect love — between God and man, between man and woman — in a bright and fruitful garden where we could live forever and never die. We were going to do meaningful work, experience joy, and create in imitation of the Creator, building up our beautiful world and bringing forth new life.
But sin, death, and the Fall marred God’s Plan A. All of human history has been affected ever since. So we’ve been living in God’s Plan B: redemption.
I know Jesus is the Redeemer, and I am so thankful for the way that he has redeemed my life, not only from childhood trauma and loss, but at every stage of my growing into a person. It’s helpful to me to remember that no matter what aspect of my Plan A has gone wrong this week, God has a plan to redeem.
I know that my redeemer lives,
and that in the end he will stand on the earth.
And after my body has been destroyed,
yet in my flesh I will see God.
Job 19:25-26
To Believe
Posted in A Poet's Education, Images, Observations, tagged Augustine, medieval singers, Merton on July 27, 2015| Leave a Comment »
“To believe is to consent to a creative command that raises us from the dead”
~ Thomas Merton
“To sing is to pray twice”
~ Augustine
(Latin: Sing to the Lord a new song!)
Battle
Posted in Observations, tagged Ecclesiastes 9:11 on July 25, 2015| Leave a Comment »
“The race is not to the swift
nor the battle to the strong …
but the battle is the Lord’s
and he will give all of you
into our hands.”
Ecclesiastes 9:11, 1 Samuel 17:47
Psalm 118:17
Posted in Images, Observations, The Daily Poems on April 3, 2015| Leave a Comment »
From “The Fairy-Tale of my Life” by Hans Christian Andersen
Posted in Observations, tagged Hans Christian Andersen, loving God, The Fairy-Tale of my Life on January 23, 2015| Leave a Comment »
“The history of my life will say to the world what it says to me —
there is a loving God, who directs all things for the best.”
Hans Christian Andersen (1868)
Blessing
Posted in Music, Observations on December 1, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Whose roots
Posted in Observations, The Reading Journals, tagged James Louis Carcioppolo, Lost Sonnets of Cyrano de Bergerac on September 19, 2014| Leave a Comment »
“In a dry time we learn whose roots run deep.”
~ James Louis Carcioppolo,
from Sonnet II in The Lost Sonnets of Cyrano de Bergerac
Bird of the Heart
Posted in Observations, tagged bird of the heart, Mary Oliver, Wild Wild on September 1, 2014| Leave a Comment »
“Wild sings the bird of the heart in the forests of our lives.”
~ Mary Oliver, from “Wild, Wild”
Link to Andy Goldsworthy “Time & Tide” Montage
Posted in Observations, Poetic Films, tagged Andy Goldsworthy, montage, Time and Tide on January 7, 2014| Leave a Comment »
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