“Human,” by Natalie Grant: “Every life has a choice to rise up to fill the void. Every heart has a mission and we are called to be human.We’ve gotta do better than this ’cause we’ve only got once chance to make a difference. We’ve gotta do better than this ’cause we’ve only got one life that we’ve been given.”
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EASE – By John Zedolik Snow on the Moore. But the Reclining Figure, 1957, doesn’t care. After all it is only a mantle upon bronze, lounging there for halfway to a century and more, and has certainly experienced worse in those years of wavering weather and witnesses such as me who envy the unconcern that brings fortitude […]
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“Underlying our glitzy modern consumer culture there is a deep spiritual undernourishment and malaise that manifests all kinds of symptoms: nervous disorders, loneliness, alienation, purposelessness So blanking out, running away, burying our heads in sand or videotape will take us nowhere in the long run. If we really want to solve our problems — and the world’s problems, for they stem […]
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Immortality You carried your vengeance beyond decease – Slowed down the pyre’s cleansing, Slowed down the soil’s, the water’s warmth, Left total body change open to the senses – Pursued your cause beyond its effects, Stepped out beyond all examples, Further than all reflections, Forestalled all worth – All kindred, all common links – Seeking to frame a cleansing, […]
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An hour a day, sometimes more, I chipped away with mallet and chisel on a block of marble I found in Carrara and shipped to New York on the deck of a trawler. I offered the marble to a famous sculptor who told me he works in granite only so I grabbed his beret and one of his smocks […]
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“Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like.” – Will Rogers
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“Sadly, talent and character do not often reside in the same person.” – Lorne Michaels
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“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way, an artist says a hard thing in a simple way.” – Charles Bukowski
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