Mirror, mirror on the wall . . .

In Tew's day's mailbox . . .

The most obvious, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about. – David Foster Wallace, from “This Is Water,” in the commencement address to the graduating class of 2005 at Kenyon College

Today is the birth date of René Magritte. The surrealist pioneer painter was born today in 1898, Lessines, Belgium.

We don’t see things the way they are; we see things the way we are. – unknown (multiple attributions)

The Ponds

Still, what I want in my life
is to be willing to be dazzled —

. . .

I want to believe that the imperfections are nothing—
that the light is everything—that it is more than the sum
of each flawed blossom rising and falling. And I do.

Mary Oliver, in The House of Light. Beacon Press,1992 (later edition). Pulitzer Prize for Poetry