Largest Tiffany glass dome in the world – Chicago Cultural Center.
“Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet born.” — Joseph Addison
Lauritzen Gardens – Omaha Botanical Center
Henry Doorly Zoo Desert Dome
Heart and Mind (1944)
Edith Sitwell
SAID the Lion to the Lioness-‘When you are amber dust,-
No more a raging fire like the heat of the Sun
(No liking but all lust)-
Remember still the flowering of the amber blood and bone,
The rippling of bright muscles like a sea,
Remember the rose-prickles of bright paws
Though the fire of that sun the heart and the moon-cold bone are one.’
Said the Skeleton lying upon the sands of Time-
‘The great gold planet that is the mourning heat of the Sun
Is greater than all gold, more powerful
Than the tawny body of a Lion that fire consumes
Like all that grows or leaps…so is the heart
More powerful than all dust. Once I was Hercules
Or Samson, strong as the pillars of the seas:
But the flames of the heart consumed me, and the mind
Is but a foolish wind.’
Said the Sun to the Moon-‘When you are but a lonely white crone,
And I, a dead King in my golden armour somewhere in a dark wood,
Remember only this of our hopeless love
That never till Time is done
Will the fire of the heart and the fire of the mind be one.’
“Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Flash Of Fire
by Marina Gipps
Here is the photograph
I snapped of you unawares
Before we even met.
A dragonfly dizzied
By its confusion for escape.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Traveling… so today and tomorrow’s posts are post dated during my absence.
A flower’s fragrance declares to all the world that it is fertile, available, and desirable, its sex organs oozing with nectar. Its smell reminds us in vestigial ways of fertility, vigor, life-force, all the optimism, expectancy, and passionate bloom of youth. We inhale its ardent aroma and, no matter what our ages, we feel young and nubile in a world aflame with desire.
Diane Ackerman — A Natural History of the Senses.
“One very important difference between color and monochromatic photography is this: in black and white you suggest; in color you state. Much can be implied by suggestion, but statement demands certainty… absolute certainty.” – Paul Outerbridge
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Video – Cameron Michael
When we assume hummingbird consciousness,
our life becomes a wonderland of sensuous delights.
We live for beauty, delighting in flowers, aromas, fine mist, delicate tastes.
Hummingbirds awaken us to the beauty of the present moment.
Medicine Cards: The Discovery of Power Through the Ways of Animals
Maverick Mist 