Sevilla

EL CORDOBÉS

Epistemology, Labor and Wisdom
Canada
Sevilla
La Maestranza
Andalucía

Sextant

Acts 20:35
“I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.”

El cordobés 

 

 "The many fail; the one succeeds."~~~Tennyson

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chess: "Epistemology, Labor and Wisdom" "Canada" "Sevilla" "La Maestranza" "El Cordobés" "Andalucía" "Sextant"

Michelangelo

Michelangelo
Maple
Arce
Peralta
Tantalus
Apprehend
Grasp
Holding
Canada
Carpenter (San José)

2Tim.3:7
 "Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth."

"Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts—the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art. Not one of these books can be understood unless we read the two others; but of the three, the only quite trustworthy one is the last. The acts of a nation may be triumphant by its good fortune; and its words mighty by the genius of a few of its children: but its art, only by the general gifts and common sympathies of the race."~~~John Ruskin:St. Mark's rest; the history of Venice

The Creation of Adam, Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel

“man burst forth with a plurality of tools and art”~~~Edmund Carpenter

Canada, maple leaf

“shallow ideas are plumbed and discarded”~~~Gilbert Highet

'Lay on, Macduff
And damn'd be him that first cries,"Hold, enough!"
~~~SHAKESPEARE: Macbeth,V, viii

Joseph the Carpenter by Georges de la Tour
 Georges de La Tour (March 13, 1593 – January 30, 1652) was a French Baroque painter, who spent most of his working life in the Duchy of Lorraine, which was temporarily absorbed into France between 1641 and 1648. He painted mostly religious chiaroscuro scenes lit by candlelight.

 

Tantalus

“The plum survives its poems”~~~Wallace Stevens

 Bellini, Madonna of the Pear (c.1485) Bergamo, Galleria dell'Accademia Carrara

Chess: "Michelangelo" "Maple" "Peralta" "Tantalus " "Apprehend" "Grasp" "Holding" "Canada" "Arce" "Carpenter" "Joseph"

Midway

Midway
Moses
Tora, Tora, Tora
Thoreu
Canada
Washington Memorial
Homo sapiens

Psalm44:20
 "If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;"

"There can be no very black melancholy to him that lives in the midst of nature"~~~Thoreau

 

"Midway"

Battle of Midway. Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive Naval Battles of WWII. Inflicting permanent damage to the Japanese Navy. The victory allowed the US and it's allied to move into an offensive position.

Artwork by Kurt Miller

"The smith, a mighty man is he."~~~Longfellow

"In regions of calm and serene air"~~~Milton

 

Moses

"Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As, to be hated, needs but to be seen"~~~Pope

"The migrant people looked humbly for pleasure on the roads."~~~Steinbeck

 

 Canada

"with twenty-five squadrons of fighters he could defend the island against the whole might of the German Air Force"~~~Winston Churchill

 

Washington Memorial


"The city stood on a mighty hill"~~~Bunyan



"The birds that fish the cold sea for a living must either migrate or starve."~~~Rachel Carson




  

Replica of Henry David Thoreau's cabin at Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts.

Chess: "Midway" "Moses" "Tora, Tora, Tora" "Canada"  "Washington Memorial""Homo sapiens"

Maple Leave

Alhambra

Algebra

Ali Baba

Arabian Nights

Scheherezade  

Maple Leave 

Hojas 

descascara  

Canada 

Castillo 

Samuel Hunt 

Heredia

 
Prov.10:3
"The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked." 
Rom.8:28
"And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose." 

A poem should be equal to:
 ...

 For all the history of grief
 An empty doorway and a maple leaf

Puerto Viejo, Jessy Gonzalez

Chess: "Arabian Nights" "Algebra" "Ali Baba" "Alhambra" "Maple Leave" "Hojas" "Canada" "Castillo" "Samuel Hunt" "Heredia" "descascara" "Scheherezade"

Ars Poetica -- Archibald MacLeish

Ars Poetica

 A poem should be palpable and mute
 As a globed fruit
 Dumb
 As old medallions to the thumb
Silent as the sleeve-worn stone
 Of casement ledges where the moss has grown -

A poem should be wordless
 As the flight of birds
 A poem should be motionless in time
 As the moon climbs
Leaving, as the moon releases
 Twig by twig the night-entangled trees,
Leaving, as the moon behind the winter leaves,
 Memory by memory the mind -
A poem should be motionless in time
 As the moon climbs

A poem should be equal to:
 Not true
For all the history of grief
 An empty doorway and a maple leaf
For love
 The leaning grasses and two lights above the sea -
A poem should not mean
 But be

-- Archibald MacLeish

 

The Gambler

Lewiston
Ps.32:8

"I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye."

Night Lights in St. Louis

the neighbors' japanese maple

Chess: "Sandy Hook" "Punta Arenas" "St. Louis Cardinals" "LDA" "Airport" "RTVE" "Rojo y Negro" "Ojo de Agua" "Cartago" "Manolete" "The Gambler"