Sunday Quote and Happy Easter

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. - Pope John Paul II

MOMA on a Thursday

The oil by Pavel Tchelitchew, Hide-and-Seek, is reported to be the most popular painting at MOMA. I first saw it way back in high school and was mesmerized by it. In my mind I have always referred to it as the tree of life painting. Some art you carry with you forever. Some art you look at and shrug. Telling my youngest, see if you can find a link in your mind, something evoked, something sparked be it good or bad. Like poetry, you don't have to understand it, you just have to be open to what it might bring to you. A wonderful day with my two boys.

Happy Birthday, Tucker!

Three years old! We love you, little dog.

Sunday Quote

It is the wind and rain, O God, the cold and the storm that make this earth of Thine to blossom and bear its fruit. So in our lives it is storm and stress and hurt and suffering that make real men and women bring the world's work to its highest perfection. Let us learn then in these growing years to respect the harder sterner aspects of life together with its joy and laughter, and to weave them all into the great web which hangs holy to the Lord. - W.E.B.Du Bois

Sometimes you just want to....

Tea and Cafe

Sunday Quote

If you wait long enough a sentence appears. - Jeffrey Skinner, from Votive

Blinded with Science

And what is that music pouring out of my son's room but Thomas Dolby, an old favorite of mine and my husband...concert years ago at Radio City Music Hall years before this kid was born.

Sunday Quote

If you follow your bliss, you will always have your bliss, money or not. If you follow money, you may lose it, and you will have nothing. - Joseph Campbell

Sunday Quote

A mature religion is integral in nature - that means that it is flexible enough to integrate all new knowledge within its frame of reference and keep pace with all the new discoveries of the human mind. It indeed takes the cross into the spacecraft. Going to school means starting on the road to science, and if religion does not follow the same road with an open and critical eye, the grown adult who flies the ocean in superjets might be religiously still content with a tricycle. Essential for mature religion is the constant willingness to shift gears, to integrate new insights, and to revise our positions. - Henri Nouwen, Seeds of Hope

Sunday Quote

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. ~ Emily Dickinson

Happy Birthday to my 24 year old...

With another Carnage Cake - the theme this year is the Prehistoric Great White Hammerhead Shark has risen up from the depths of the volcanic rocks in Hawaii and has spotted two unsuspecting scuba divers - who look suspiciously like Chris and Molly...will they escape? Who knows...(however in the theme of carnage cakes, these things don't generally end well...and in this cake, the shark was attacked by dessert forks)...Tucker the dog (who is only allowed at the table by special birthday order) looks doubtful.

Tucker likes the snow...for a little bit.

Goodbye Little Seal

I know you've got this one, too, dear F.E.

Sunday Quote

I've never known a writer who didn't feel ill at ease in the world. Have you? We all feel unhoused in some sense. - Andrea Barrett

Wow, it snowed...

Julie Andrews

Years (and years and years) ago first saw Julie Andrews in Mary Poppins at the Larchmont movie theatre --and tonight met her at the wonderful Voracious Reader bookstore just a few doors down. A full circle, lovely moment.

Sunday Quote

Let us live in the land of the whispering trees, Alder and aspen and poplar and birch, Singing our prayers in a pale, sea-green breeze, With star-flower rosaries and moss banks for church. - Elizabeth Bishop, For C.W.B.

twenty years...

Since Audrey is on my mind from my earlier post, it was a bit of a shock when a thing on TV mentioned she died twenty years ago. It does not seem that long a time. Even more shocking was that she died at only 63. Twenty years ago that age might have seemed older to me than it does now. Still, such a loss, she was a wonder. While looking for photos I stumbled across this blog that has done such a lovely job of assembling AH photos, let me direct you to La Feem.

restless round-up

I think Holly Golightly would appreciate a museum of shopping bags. Especially if they were from Tiffany...wait, do they have shopping bags? And are they a Tiffany blue shade? If you have Holly, you need Frank....the man is working hard here, folks. Adore this song. Would Holly take the subway? Possibly. If so, what would she be caught reading? I think she might just thumb through a Vogue magazine or be modern day with an ipad and poke around design sponge for inspiration. She probably would stay up late...later than this, but I am off to read a bit of Proof of Heaven by Eben Alexander, M.D. which several sources tell me is fascinating and one source says she knows him and he is the least flaky man on the planet and that whatever he would say is the real deal...time to peruse.