The Bird must sing to earn the Crumb
by Emily Dickinson
The Bird must sing to earn the Crumb
What merit have the Tune
No Breakfast if it guaranty
The Rose content may bloom
To gain renown of Lady’s Drawer
But if the Lady come
But once a Century, the Rose
Superfluous become —
“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever… it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.” — Aaron Siskind
Monochrome Madness will be posted later today for your viewing pleasure on Leanne Cole’s blog.
If you would like to participate and submit a photo in the upcoming weeks, please email your monochrome image to leanne@leannecole.com.au and include a link to your blog or website if you have one. It doesn’t have to be WordPress blogger, it can be a Facebook page, a Flickr page, etc. Include your name or your blog name. The image size should be low resolution, so the largest size should be 1000 pixels or less. The deadline for submission is before 6 p.m. on or before Tuesday, Melbourne Australia time. The earlier the better for Leanne. If you should miss the deadline your photograph will be posted the following week. The complete instructions are posted on Leanne’s blog should you have any questions or need help. The first MM of every month will have a theme. Today is the June theme which is “water”. There will be two galleries during the theme week, one for the theme and one like there normally is for those that may choose not to do a theme. ✽
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My recent Memorial Day visit was to the Lee’s Summit Historical Cemetery where there were lots of flowers, Quantrill’s Raiders, and Civil War veterans. The most famous being Cole Younger of the James-Younger Gang. Above is Oliver B. Shephard who rode with William Quantrill. After the war he robbed a bank in Russellville, Kentucky, and was subsequently shot by a vigilante posse.
“It was the earliest desire of my parents to prepare me for the ministry, but the horrors of war, the murder of my father, and the outrages perpetrated upon my poor old mother, my sisters and brothers, destroyed our hopes so effectually that none of us could be prepared for any duty in life except revenge.” — Cole Younger
“There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;
….and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without.”
― Robert Browning
I’m an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way. — Carl Sandburg
“The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart
and head and hands, and then work outward from there.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Blake
Jorge Luis Borges
Where will the rose in your hand exist
that lavishes, without knowing, intimate gifts?
Not in colour, because the flower is blind,
nor in the sweet inexhaustible fragrance,
nor in the weight of the petal. Those things
are sparse and remote echoes.
The real rose is more elusive.
Perhaps a pillar or a battle
or a firmament of angels, or an infinite
world, secret and necessary,
or the joy of a god we will not see
or a silver planet in another sky
or a terrible archetype lacking
the form of the rose.
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Il silenzio di un bacio vale piu di mille parole.
The silence of a kiss is worth more than 1000 words.
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“Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.” Marc Riboud
Monochrome Madness will be posted later today for your viewing pleasure on Leanne Cole’s blog.
If you would like to participate and submit a photo in the upcoming weeks, please email your monochrome image to leanne@leannecole.com.au and include a link to your blog or website if you have one. It doesn’t have to be WordPress blogger, it can be a Facebook page, a Flickr page, etc. Include your name or your blog name. The image size should be low resolution, so the largest size should be 1000 pixels or less. The deadline for submission is before 6 p.m. on or before Tuesday, Melbourne Australia time. The earlier the better for Leanne. If you should miss the deadline your photograph will be posted the following week. The complete instructions are posted on Leanne’s blog should you have any questions or need help. The first MM of every month will have a theme. Next week the June theme will be “water”. There will be two galleries during the theme week, one for the theme and one like there normally is for those that may choose not to do a theme. ✽
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〖* Mortui vivos docent *〗 “Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a
more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society
and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?” – Henry Ward Beecher
Maverick Mist 