La casa dell’artista, olio su tela di Umberto Moggioli, 1918
The Artist’s House, Oil on canvas, 1918
I saw this painting in July while in Venice. I love the light and the warmth that it radiates. I love how the mother and the daughter are working so attentively and yet are clearly enjoying each other’s company. There is a great sense of peace and comfort. There is also a great sense of welcome. The door is open and the table is set. Such beauty and simplicity.
“To learn to draw is to draw and draw and draw“
– Andrew Loomis
“Because survival is insufficient..”
From Station Eleven
The question is “can you stand erect in your pain, in your loneliness, your fears, and your experience of being rejected?”
from The Inner Voice of Love by Henri Nouwen
“They think if people can possess enough things they will be content to live in prison”
From The dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
“To be whole is to be part; true voyage is to return.”
From The dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
“Wasn’t it immoral to do work you didn’t enjoy?”
From The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
“Speech is sharing — a cooperative art”
From The dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous
to be understood.
How grass can be nourishing in the
mouths of the lambs.
How rivers and stones are forever
in allegiance with gravity
while we ourselves dream of rising.
How two hands touch and the bonds will
never be broken.
How people come, from delight or the
scars of damage,
to the comfort of a poem.
Let me keep my distance, always, from those
who think they have the answers.
Let me keep company always with those who say
“Look!” and laugh in astonishment,
and bow their heads.
By Mary Oliver
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