In time of daffodils

Russell Hoban

"Explorers have to be ready to die lost."

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Richard Long - Waterfall Line, 2000, remade 2025 (detail) - Tate Modern

“I make the top half of the image and nature – gravity – makes the other half.”

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Russell Hoban (a literary hero of mine) - from “Amaryllis Night and Day”

"If reality had a stage door I'd hang around there to see what comes out after the show.”

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Miguel Hernández

I wrote on the sand
the three names of life:
life, death, love.

A gust of sea,
so often clear,
came and erased them.

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Song - Jacques Prevert

What are days?
We are all days
My friend
We are all life
My love
We love and we live
We live and we love
And we do not know what life is
And we do not know what day is
And we do not know what love is.

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Remembering FAB Michael Horovitz

On The Road Again
(After Neal Cassady, Jack Kerouac et all)

Nothing left at all
Not a goddamned thing right

…full speed ahead!

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For today’s #BlueSkyArtShow #TheRoad

T. S. Eliot - from East Coker (Four Quartets)

"...old stones that cannot be deciphered."

Mirosław Kijowicz

Cages (1966) 

youtu.be/Zi-2s4FJCl4

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Robin Wall Kimmerer - Braiding Sweetgrass

“Paying attention is a form of reciprocity with the living world, receiving the gifts with open eyes and open heart.”

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Jean-Michel Folon

"I've always wanted to fly away, to move, to go and converse with the wind."

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Henry Miller - Black Spring (page 14)

"...everything moves on shifting levels - our thoughts, our dreams, our actions, our whole life."

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Rebecca Solnit - The Faraway Nearby

Elaine Pamphilon

"Feel your way into a painting and your life is enriched."

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The Yellow Bowl at the Gardener's Cottage

African Proverb

A sandstorm passes;
the stars remain.

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Jorge Luis Borges - The Moon (for Maria Kodama)

There is such loneliness in that gold.
The moon of the nights is not the moon
Whom the first Adam saw. The long centuries
Of human vigil have filled her
With ancient lament. Look at her. She is your mirror.

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Paul Simon

All lies and jest
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest...

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John Steinbeck - Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.”

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Fabulous!

George Carlin

“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.”

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Iris Murdoch (from The Message to the Planet).

"Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wave-length of ours all they hear is a continuous scream."

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Picasso - Guernica, 1937

Robert Walser
From ‘Too Philosophical ‘ (translated by Daniele Pantano)

How ghostly my life
in its fall and rise.
Always I see myself waving to myself,
floating away from the one waving.

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For today's #BlueSkyArtShow - #Texture

Textured seascape (The Bay of Biscay)

The late & great Raymond Carver:

"My bowl is empty. But it's my bowl, you see, and I love it."

Haiku by Billy Collins

Moon in the window
the same as it was before
there was a window.

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Next time you find yourself driving down ‘The Blues Highway’ be sure to tune into @theblueslist.bsky.social

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Whoa! Is that Bobby and the ghost of Big Joe Williams I see?

Leibniz

“…every feeling is the perception of a truth...”

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Alexander Calder

“My circles aren’t perfect – and I don’t want them to be”

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Paul Simon - America

“So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine
And the moon rose over an open field
"Kathy, I'm lost", I said, though I knew she was sleeping
I'm empty and aching and I don't know why”

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Lenka Clayton

'Half a Dozen Eggs, Quarter of a Dozen Raisins' (2018)

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