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Rhapsody in Blue

Why make so much of fragmentary blue
In here and there a bird, or butterfly,
Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye,
When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?

Since earth is earth, perhaps, not heaven (as yet)—
Though some savants make earth include the sky;
And blue so far above us comes so high,
It only gives our wish for blue a whet.

– Robert Frost

I have found myself dwelling on the color blue and the way our planet’s elemental hue, the most symphonic of the colors, recurs throughout our literature as something larger than a mere chromatic phenomenon — a symbol, a state of being, a foothold to the most lyrical and transcendent heights of the imagination.

– Maria Popova

“Blue is light seen through a veil.”

– Henry David Thoreau

“Blue is the typical heavenly color…
The ultimate feeling it creates is one of rest…”

– Wasily Kandinski

“I saw in a blue haze all the world poured
flat and pale between the mountains.”

– Annie Dillard

“We love to contemplate blue,” Goethe wrote, “not because it advances to us, but because it draws us after it.”

Blue is the unspoken language of universality,
seamlessly weaving through the expanse of
sky and the depths of water.

“No water, no life. No blue, no green”

– Sylvia Earle

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Carnival of the Animals

The Carnival of the Animals is a musical composition by the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns in 1886.

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
-Mahatma Gandhi

A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes.
– Indian Proverb

All things bright and beautiful,
All creatures great and small,
All things wise and wonderful:
The Lord God made them all.
-Cecil Frances, 1848

A horse is worth more than riches.
– Spanish Proverb

Without a shepherd, sheep are not a flock.
-Russian Proverb

Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant;
the only harmless great thing.
– John Donne

Until one has loved an animal,
a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
– Anatole France

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The music is from the final movement of the
the composition called the Swan.

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Conversation: Food for the Soul

Post author By Steve McCurry
Post date March 12, 2020
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Conversation is food for the soul.
– Mexican Proverb

The character of a man is known from his conversations.
– Menander, 342 – 292 BCE

In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is in conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life; and if I were forced to choose, I think I would rather lose my sight than my hearing and voice.
– Michel de Monta

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another’s observation, not overturning it.
– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, 1803 – 1873

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Finding Home

Home should be an oratorio of the memory,
singing to all our after life melodies and
harmonies of old remembered joy.
– Henry Ward Beecher

Home is the nicest word there is.
– Laura Ingalls Wilder

Home is where, when you cross its threshold,
you finally feel at peace.
– Dennis Lehane

A home is one of the most sacred of places.
It is a sanctuary into which men flee from the
world’s perils and alarms.
It is a resting-place to which at close of day the weary
retire to gather new strength for the
battle and toils of tomorrow.
It is the place where love learns its lessons,
where life is schooled into discipline and strength,
where character is molded.
– J.R. Miller

Home is where one starts from.
– T.S. Eliot

Where thou art, that is home.
– Emily Dickenson

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.
– Helen Rowland

Nor need we power or splendor,
wide hall or lordly dome;
the good, the true, the tender-
these form the wealth of home.
– Sarah J. Hale

Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
they have to take you in.
– Robert Frost

It takes a lot of living to make a house a home
It doesn’t make any difference how rich you get to be
How much your chairs and tables cost, how great your luxury
It isn’t home to you though it be the palace of a king,
Until somehow your soul is wrapped round everything.
– Paraphrase of Edgar Guest poem, Home

*McCurry family home, Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, USA*

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Wanderlust

My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe,
and my camera is my passport.
– Steve McCurry

I’d like to go anywhere.
– John Steinbeck

Look for chances to take the less-traveled roads.
There are no wrong turns.
– Susan Magsamen

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again;
we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
– Jack Kerouac

I was lying to myself when I thought I was lost,
I have never been lost – I just wasn’t ready to be found.
– Nikki Rowe

… a certain kind of wanderlust can only be assuaged by the acts of the body
itself in motion, not the motion of the car, boat, or plane.
– Rebecca Solnit

… all my life I have lived and behaved very much like the Sandpiper just
running down the edges of different countries and continents,
looking for something.
– Elizabeth Bishop