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And yes, we are stardust; we are golden…

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Double Day Lilies

video by jacksorengan

 

Today is the birthday of St. John of the Cross (1542). 

He is the patron saint of mystics, contemplatives and Spanish poets. 

He is probably best known for his poem, Dark Night of the Soul.

“A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.”

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

“Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.”

~ Ernest Hemingway

A classic, summertime song…  by Eric Burdon and War 

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The lunatic, the lover, and the poet
Are of imagination all compact.

(A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 5. 1)

 

“A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM” — Evansville (Indiana) Civic Theatre’s Shakespeare in the Park production, 6 p.m. daily June 26-28 in the park Fourth and Main streets. Admission free.

Summer Morning Sky

To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie –
True Poems flee –
 

– by Emily Dickinson

“A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.” – Quotation by Salman Rushdie

 

 

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"Featherheart"
was chosen as
the name for
this blog
because when
I remember
to keep my
heart light as
a feather,
life is much
easier.

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Jimmy Margulies
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Jan 7, 2011