Rothko on loan to the National Gallery of Ireland
Originally posted on Tales from the East Pier:
“We favour the simple expression of the complex thought.” — Mark Rothko with Adolph Gottlieb, New York Times, June 1943 If you…
The cawing of the crow resounds among the woods | Nathaniel Hawthorne’s journal entry for October 12th, 1841
Originally posted on Biblioklept:
October 12th.–The cawing of the crow resounds among the woods. A sentinel is aware of your approach a great way off, and gives the alarm to his…
Some personal highlights of #Inktober
#inktober #inktober2017 #inktober17 #underwater #anchor pic.twitter.com/yuk43puTk2 — Ricky Millar (@Rickrickboom) October 4, 2017 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Inktober is a … well, here is the inevitable video: So there you go – a…
Great facts-of-life scenes: Elizabeth Taylor, “At Mrs Lippincote’s”
I read somewhere that someone (bear with me) explained the facts of life to their son by reading them a chapter of Richard Llewellyn’s “How Green Was MY Valley” wherein…
Participants needed for Ireland’s Holy Wells County-by-County Project
Originally posted on Pilgrimage In Medieval Ireland:
Ireland’s Holy Wells County-by-County is a very exciting project set up and run by Dr. Celeste Ray Professor of Anthropology at the University…
October in the Cairngorms – from Nan Shepherd, “The Heart of the Mountain”
Among drifts of these purple glowing birches, an occasional rowan looks dead; its naked boughs are a smooth white-grey, almost ghastly as the winter light runs over them. The rowan’s…
Dylan Thomas, Poem in October, read by Dylan Thomas
It was my thirtieth year to heaven Woke to my hearing from harbour and neighbour wood And the mussel pooled and the heron Priested shore The morning beckon With water…
“Of Smelly Monks and Annoying Neighbours” – Hannah LeGrand in Comment Magazine
Hannah LeGrand has a review of Kyle David Bennet’s Practices of Love in Comment Magazine which is worth reading. I’ve posted before on the romanticisation of monasticism. Both those who…
Séamus Sweeney 