A Very Happy 101st Birthday
to my Grandad
Thomas McCarthy 🥳✨️
"The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it—basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them."
~ Charles Bukowski
A sublime piece of poetry ✨️
• Siegfried Sassoon •
Countryside poetry....
• John Clare •
"This then is salvation: when we marvel at the beauty of created things and praise their beautiful Creator."
~ Meister Eckhart
Deer in the Forest (1914)
🎨 Franz Marc
"Such, such were the joys
When we all, girls and boys,
In our youth-time were seen
On the Echoing Green."
~ William Blake
“Green was the silence,
wet was the light,
the month of June trembled
like a butterfly.”
— Pablo Neruda
🎨 Roswell Morse Shurtleff
"It's dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you're feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them."
~ Aldous Huxley
"We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us."
~ St. Bernard of Clairvaux
Rest on the Flight to Egypt (1659)
🎨 Francisco de Zurbarán
