Saturday, June 27, 2020

More through the Kaleidoscope

This Image of the Kaleidoscope has lingered for these few months.  Pieces getting re-ordered, and re-ordered; patterned and re-
patterned. the Meaning has to be discovered within the Change.
So I offer a few pieces from a stack of notes and clippings for your ordering pleasure:

"The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease"  Voltaire

"Life and Life Abundantly Comes Through Expression"  in an Arts & Crafts era pamphlet

Human nature loves heartily well-balanced irregularity and longs for it in life, in character, 
and in almost everything else     Calvert Vaux  

“attitude more than aptitude”       


We are not human beings having a spiritual experience.
We are spiritual beings having a human experience.               Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The Arrowhead         Mary Oliver

The arrowhead,  which I found beside the river,
was glittering and pointed.
I picked it up, and said,  “Now, it’s mine.”
I thought of showing it to friends.
I thought of putting it—such an imposing trinket—
in a little box, on my desk.
Halfway home, past the cut fields,
the old ghost  stood under the hickories.
“I would rather drink the wind,” he said,
“I would rather eat mud and die
than steal as you steal,
than lie as you lie.”

More coming

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