Surreal Archery

vs. the Zen mastery of surrealist Rene Magritte.

Overcoming Blindspots

Sonnet - Science

Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art!
Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes.
Why preyest thou thus upon the poet's heart,
Vulture, whose wings are dull realities?
How should he love thee? or how deem thee wise,
Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering
To seek for treasure in the jewelled skies,
Albeit he soared with an undaunted wing?
Hast thou not dragged Diana from her car?
And driven the Hamadryad from the wood
To seek a shelter in some happier star?
Hast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood,
The Elfin from the green grass, and from me
The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree?--EA Poe

Indian Summers

"If life deals you lemons, make lemonade" --Proverb
"As unto the bow the cord is,
So unto the man is woman;
Though she bends him, she obeys him,
Though she draws him, yet she follows;
Useless each without the other!"
--Longfellow, "Song of Hiawatha"

"We must cultivate our garden"...(Voltaire, "Candide")

"I have only twenty acres, replied the Turk; I cultivate them with my children, and the work keeps us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and poverty."

Others choose to cultivate a different form of garden celebrating the fruits of their labour: intellectual stimulation, virtue and wealth.

Blog Themes

The Hitching Post

"There is in our house a working ox with crumpled horn,
who knows how to work, but he doesn't want to." --Archilocus

Not Movin' On

"Holding a branch of myrtle, she was glowing with joy,
and the fair flower of the rose. And her long hair
fell shadowing her shoulders and all the way down her back"
--Archilochus
Fields fattened
by corpses.

Rage Against the Machine

"for it is at the hands of your friends that you are strangled" --Archilochus