The Stillness: the Dancing

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

T.S.Eliot

Newburgh Lake, Michigan

Hartwick Pines, Michigan

Awaken the Glow of Happiness

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Albert Camus

The first snow of winter fell in Michigan today, which also happens to be the birthday of my favorite writer, Albert Camus.

 

Fleming Creek, MIchigan

Begin to Understand

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Summer sunset on Newburgh Lake, Michigan

Shadow of a Divine Perfection

The true work of art is but the shadow of a divine perfection.
—Michelangelo

On this day in 1512, the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel was opened to the public for the first time.
Several years later, I took this photo at one of my favorite haunts, Iargo Springs in the Huron National Forest, Michigan

Huron National Forest, Michigan

Grateful for Octobers

I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.

Anne of Green Gables, via Lucy Montgomery

Nature’s Tutelage

The object of education is to teach us to love beauty

Plato

Matthaei Woods, Michigan

and Food for Future Years

While here I stand, not only with the sense
Of present pleasure, but with pleasing thoughts
That in this moment there is life and food
For future years.

William Wordsworth, Lines Composed a few Miles above Tintern Abbey

Newburgh Lake, Michigan