There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind. ~C.S. Lewis

Laugh more

When you are born you are crying and everyone else is laughing. Live your life so that when you die you are laughing and everyone around you is crying. If you can’t laugh about life you cry about it but laughter is the stuff that gets you through the day ~ Author is unknown to me

Since laughter is one of the secrets to a happy life, here is a lighthearted Irish blessing for you.

May your feet never sweat,

your neighbor give you ne're a treat.

When flowers bloom, I hope you'll not sneeze,

and may you always have someone to sqeeze!

As you ramble through life, whatever be your goal; Keep your eye upon the doughnut, and not upon the hole.  ~~ Irish proverb

Gra, Dilseacht, Cairdeas -- Love, Loyalty, Friendship

/|\ By Land, Sea, and Sky one hundred thousand Blessings to all who read these words!

To bring Peace, be Peaceful … A Celtic Warrior (Ceilteach Gaiscíoch)

zoo 016 - Photograph at BetterPhoto.com

zoo 016 - Photograph at BetterPhoto.com

Red and Green

" Sorrow and scarlet leaf,
Sad thoughts and sunny weather.
Ah me, this glory and this grief
Agree not well together!"
-  Thomas Parsons, 1880, A Song For September

"Autumn is the eternal corrective. It is ripeness and color and a time of maturity; but it is also breadth, and depth, and distance. What man can stand with autumn on a hilltop and fail to see the span of his world and the meaning of the rolling hills that reach to the far horizon?
- Hal Borland

Publicity release for Vistas-Vision and Verse: an exhibit of ekphrastic poetry and the original art that inspired it

 

“A common theory about poetry and art (made popular by Plutarch) is that “painting is mute poetry and poetry is a speaking picture”.” John Hollander

Vistas-Visions and Verse: an exhibit of ekphrastic poetry and the original art that inspired it is a compilation of 35 paired art and poetry pieces by 14 York and Lancaster County Poets. Media include photography, painting, textile, collage, acrylic on canvas, mixed media and more. Poetry takes the form of haiku, narrative, free verse and more.

The exhibit will hang in the Spring House Gallery of the Lancaster County Council of the Arts, 201 West Gay St., Lancaster, in November and December. An opening reception for the exhibit will be Sunday, November 4^th, 2-4 and will include a brief reading by the poets.

“No one person will see and internalize a work of art in exactly the same way, thus outer experience is a reflection of the inner personal experience.” Kristen S. Kurzawski, Demystifying Poetry Using Women’s Ekphrasis.

We hope this exhibit will continue and contribute to the conversation between literature and the visual arts.

Merlin the well read cat

Merlin sitting on the bookshelf were the some of the books on magick and Druidism are located

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