JANUARY 2021
choose wisely what you dwell on
Mere Christianity
CS Lewis
sunlight,
though it has no favourites,
cannot be reflected in a dusty mirror
as clearly as in a clean one
Robert Louis Stevenson
have been unable to find where exactly he wrote this
in our own hands lies the power to choose –
what we want most to be we are
Proverbs 11
he who refreshes others will himself be refreshed
prophet jeremiah, sistine chapel, rome*
Jeremiah 6
stand at the crossroads and look;
ask for the ancient paths,
ask where the good way is, and walk in it,
and you will find rest for your souls
Girl In Hyacinth Blue
Susan Vreeland
she wondered if it had ever been painted just that way, or if the life of something as inconsequential as a water drop could be arrested and given to the world in a painting,
or if the world would care
Tao Te Ching
from Verse 57
act with a pure heart
love your own life
give without conditions
want nothing
* i started a scrapbook after a 1999 italy trip
wrote on a notebook every day: what i saw, learned, experienced, and transposed it onto a beautiful hardbound notebook, along with sketches of art and of photographs i had taken, then allowed myself to be blind-sided and did not complete it. jeremiah was one of my favorites — both my sketch and michaelangelo’s. standing under the vaulted ceiling i found it hard to part from him. must have been the shades of oranges and yellows … although the same happened in florence with david, and there are no shades in him at all