Slouching toward art . . .

It's Thor's day … a downright cold and blustery day in TulseyTown, perhaps in more ways than . . .

It feels like like chaos out there, but courage is contagious and far more fulfilling than fear. – Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse.

Birthdays today

Werner Heisenberg was born in 1901, Würzburg, Germany

Science no longer confronts nature as an objective observer, but sees itself as an actor in this interplay between man and nature. The scientific method of analysing, explaining and classifying has become conscious of its limitations, which arise out of the fact that by its intervention science alters and refashions the object of investigation. In other words, method and object can no longer be separated. – Werner Heisenberg

Walt Disney was born in 1901, Chicago, Illinois.

Its the birthday of essayist and novelist Joan Didion. She was born in 1934 Sacramento, California.

And, Pre-Raphaelite poet Christina Rossetti was born in 1830 London.

In case you were wondering, Pre-Raphaelite artists emphasized a detailed and realistic portrayal of nature. They believed that art should reflect the world as it truly is.

In the bleak mid-winter
Frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow,
Snow on snow,
In the bleak mid-winter
Long ago.

– Christina Rossetti, “A Christmas Carol” originally published in The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine vol. 3. Scribner & Co., 1872, now in the public domain.