“Tout le monde parle de mon art et fait semblant de comprendre, comme s’il était nécessaire de comprendre, alors qu’il est tout simplement nécessaire d’aimer.” Claude Monet (né le 14 novembre 1840 à Paris et mort en 1926 à Giverny) -peintre français et l’un des créateurs de l’impressionnisme. “Everyone discusses my art and pretends to… Read More Claude Monet
Charming and full of verve, Lady Hamilton acquired great influence at court thanks to her close friendship with the Queen. Maria Carolina of Habsburg-Lorraine probably intrigued by this lively woman who was so different from the bored and cynical courtiers who surrounded her, In their correspondence with each other, the Queen began signing her letters… Read More Lady Hamilton in Naples – Queen Maria Carolina (Part 9)
Here is another poem by Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) , which was published in the Nassau Literary Magazine in April 1918 City Dusk Come out . . . . outTo this inevitable night of mineOh you drinker of new wine,Here’s pageantry . . . . Here’s carnival,Rich dusk, dim streets and allThe whispering of city… Read More Another Poem by Fitzgerald
At the end of the post “White Lead & Ceruse” I wrote that in Puccini’s Manon Lescaut there is a reference to the “cerussa”. Manon Lescaut is an Italian-language opera in four acts composed by Giacomo Puccini between 1889 and 1892. based on the 1731 novel “Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux, et de Manon Lescaut… Read More Manon Lescaut’s Ceruse
This night’s full moon, the closest to the September equinox, is the Harvest Moon. Our friend Pat (e-Quips) published a lovely poem about it: you can read it here In the Northern Hemisphere the Harvest Moon is astronomically significant because even though the time between one moonrise and the next becomes shorter (typically, the Moon… Read More Harvest Moon 🌕
The unconditional love like that of a mother for her child mentioned by Erich Fromm (see here) is the theme of Edgar Allan Poe‘s sonnet “To My Mother “. Because I feel that, in the Heavens above,The angels, whispering to one another,Can find, among their burning terms of love,None so devotional as that of ‘Mother,’… Read More To My Mother
The day before yesterday I wrote about “Mother Love”, Freddie Mercury’s last song, dealing with the need to find someone who can take care of us. In “The Art of Loving” (1956) , Erich Fromm, German psychoanalyst and sociologist, states that love is based on the practice of four essential elements: “care, responsibility, respect and… Read More Motherly Love
Yesterday Freddie Mercury would have turned 75. In November 1995, four years after his death, the posthumous album “Made in Heaven” was released. It contains the song “Mother Love”, co-written with Brian May and the last vocal recording made by Mercury before his death.May stated; ” Freddie at that time said ‘Write me stuff… I… Read More Mother Love 🎶
➡️First part➡️Second part➡️Third part In 1939, just four years after the death of Æ (poet George William Russell, editor of the Irish Statesman, the leading literary newspaper of the nascent Irish Free State, her mentor, and more) as she approached forty, Pamela Travers decided that she wanted a child. But not just any baby, it… Read More P.L. Travers: Camillus’ Mother (4)
“Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.” “War is not two great armies meeting in the clash and frenzy of battle. War is a boy being carried on a stretcher, looking up at God’s blue sky with bewildered eyes that are soon to close; war is a woman… Read More Love and War
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