"The Regattas at Moseley," 1874
Alfred Sisley (French-British, 1839-1899)
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
You are the God who formed us,
The God who knows us,
The God who loves us,
The God who leads us,
The God who feeds us,
The God who blesses us,
The beginning and end
of all that we are,
and hope to be.
Worthy of our praise.
~John Birch, Faith and Worship
"Idyll, Javea," 1900
Joaquín Sorolla (Spanish, 1863-1923)
Sorolla Museum, Madrid
"It was June, and the world smelled of roses."
~Maud Hart Lovelace, "Betsy-Tacy, and Tib"
"The Crimson Rambler," ca. 1915
Gari Melchers (American, 1860-1932)
Private Collection
George Stevens, British (active c 1810-1864), Girl With Flower Basket, 1842, oil on canvas, relined, 114.5 x 91 cm, private collection
Tobeen (Félix Bonnet), French (1880-1938), Bouquet, c 1920, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands
Listened to an NPR story this morning about mass child starvation in Senegal without a single mention of Elon Musk, the guy who gleefully created the conditions for the mass starvation
"When we focus on what we can accomplish rather than the people we are called to serve, we become victims of our own ambition, and so do they."
~Jon Tyson, The Burden Is Light