Beth Levin

Let us now with whatever levers and steam-engines we have at hand, cant over the sperm whale’s head

Kigo – 季語 In the realm of poetry, “Kigo” refers to seasonal words that convey the essence of a particular season. These words add depth and vividness to traditional Japanese poetry forms like Haiku and Tanka.

peaklass

Allow yourself to be stopped in your tracks by beauty. To watch the sun sparkle through the trees, to listen to the birds singing in the evening light.

Nature is still valiantly trying to reach us. We just need to stand still sometimes and let it all in.

📍 Peak District, England

YouTube video by Pau Malatesta Frank Bridge Three Idylls for String Quartet

More Celebration of (rather, Homage to) the Music of Frank Bridge!
Here is one movement from a suite written by Bridge’s most famous student, Benjamin Britten. First, here’s Bridge’s theme - Three Idylls for String Quartet
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Barenreiter:
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Our favourite animal for obvious reasons!

Jean Baptiste Greuze (1755)

'The Yellow Tie' SBIFF 2026 Review | The Movie Buff Looking for a review of Serge Ioan Celebidachi's film 'The Yellow Tie'? The Movie Buff is your source for reviews, news, content, and more!

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blue river, purple brown
2020
71 × 55in / 180 × 140cm
Acrylic and screen-printing ink on canvas
Henry Chapman

Simplon-Orient Express 1950 Photo Jack Birns

Open Door, Brittany, 1896 #impressionism #matisse

Just Now Just now, if I look back down the cool street of the past, I can see streetlamps, one for each year, lighting small circles of time into which someone will step if I squint, if I try hard enough— circles smaller and smaller, leading back to the one faint point at the start, like a star. So many of them are empty now, those circles of roadside and grass. In one, the moth of some feeling still flutters, unspoken, the cold darkness around it enormous.

Just Now ~ Ted Kooser

Tetyana Yablonska (Ukrainian, 1917-2005) Paper Flowers, 1967.

Good morning! xo
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“An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.” Lawrence Durrell, born 27 February 1912

YouTube video by gullivior Art Tatum plays Runnin' Wild (1938)

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Peter Rabbit
Beatrix was dedicated! Sketches for Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, 1905 by Beatrix Potter

YouTube video by newhope123 Ravel - Le Tombeau de Couperin, orchestration complète

(186) Ravel - Le Tombeau de Couperin, orchestration complète - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wkt8...

J. M. W. Turner, Snow Storm- Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth (circa 1842)

myaskofiev 2:

Boston premiere of Glazunov's 8th Symphony (27 Feb 1925):

YouTube video by 김정수 Haydn, Symphony No 99 , Josef Krips, cond

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“And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon. The moon. The moon. They danced by the light of the moon.”
― Edward Lear, The Owl and the Pussycat

Matisseian Eyes, No:1 | Exhibition Poster

Michael Stefani:
Crocus vernus Queen of the Blues…she’s enough to lift the blues!

Gustav Klimt, Approaching Thunderstorm (The Large Poplar II), 1903

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

thewordsionary

"I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches, and paint colors for those who see none."

- Olivier Messiaen

Noisy Alphabet from AARG to ZZZ
by Tom Gauld

Hamantaschen Traditionally served on the Jewish holiday of Purim, these jam-filled triangle cookies make a great snack year-round.

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[…] a correct feeling for the natural tempo of every meter, or for what is called tempo giusto, is attained by diligent study of all kinds of dance pieces. Every dance piece has its definite tempo, determined by the meter and the note values that are employed in it.
— Johann Philipp Kirnberger

USA, 1960 - Ernst Haas

Kazuko M.
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"Flower petals
Wet with rain
Slightly feverish"
-Matsuro Ieki
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(image: Taikan Yokoyama)