Life’s DESIDERATA – Max Ehrman

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The Desiderata on The Selby: photography, art and people in their creative spaces.

Be

Posted in Play, Ponder with tags , , , , , , , , on October 27, 2009 by Roxi

Think carefully and often what you are, what you were, what you will be.

St Aelred of Rievaulx “The Mirror of Love”.

Slabs of color

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Nicolas de Stael “Sicile”, 1954.

Remembering Cali…

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Cluj at its best

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IMG_1020Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Museum’s Square. December 1st, 08

sunny, warm and open.

Growth

Posted in Ponder with tags , , , , , on October 23, 2009 by Roxi

“You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about — the more you have left when anything happens”

Ethel Barrymore

Strength

Posted in Ponder with tags , , , , , , , on October 20, 2009 by Roxi

The secret of strength is in the spirit… Life is often like fighting, and sometimes you have to draw power from your eyes or toes or from your heart.

Ben Okri “Songs of Enchantment”, 1993. Jonathan Cape Limited, England.

The most wondrous thing of all…

Posted in Love with tags , , , , on October 20, 2009 by Roxi

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.

Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.

It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres…..

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

The Bible: 1 Corinthians 13:1-7, 13

Hiding the Sun

Posted in Savour with tags , , , , , , , , on October 19, 2009 by Roxi

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In the airplane, over the Atlantic. September 2008

Cut grass – Phillip Larkin

Posted in Ponder with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 19, 2009 by Roxi

Cut grass lies frail
Brief is the breath
Many stalks exhale.

Long, long the death
It dies in the white hours
of young-leafed June
with chestnut frames,
with hedges snowlike strewn
white lilac bowed.

Lost laves of Queen Anne’s lace,
And that high-builded cloud
Moving at summer’s pace.

Phillip Larkin “Cut grass” from the “Poems on the Underground” series, presented at the British Council Centre in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.