the art of everyday life

Month: July 2019

visual cues

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‘I’m with you kid. Let’s go.’  – Maya Angelou

The Fall of Icarus by Pieter Bruegel
poem

Musée des Beaux Arts

W.H. Auden reminds us that we're really not as important as we think.
visual cues

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There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in. – Leonard Cohen

recommendation

bookshelfporn.com

bibliophiles, you're welcome.
visual cues

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We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. – T. S. Eliot

poem

For Once, Then Something

A lesser-known yet powerful Robert Frost poem about the importance of perspective and the fleeting nature of revelation.
visual cues

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