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.
Dragon Princess …
It's Odin's day . . . TulseyTown has joined the seasonal rollercoaster into Winter: after and before the cold, a visit to warmish days for at least the next ten days at least.
The social psychologist and theorist Albert Bandura was born on this day in 1925, Mundare, Alberta, Canada
It's the birth date of Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky. One of the pioneers of abstract modern art, he was born in 1866, Moscow.
And, today is the 149th birth anniversary of Rainer Maria Rilke. He was born in 1875 Prague.
“The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you...For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrible.” – Rilke, Duino Elegies, WW. Norton, 2021, First published January 1, 1922.
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love...I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other. ― Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet, Dover Publications, 2002.
The spot that was once . . .
It's Tiw's Day . . . while Southerlies return to TulseyTown, the rest of today is forecasted to be a Xerox of yesterday — sun and 40’s.
“Zen” is the other name for The Way. – David Whyte
Today is the birth date of Joseph Conrad. The author of Heart of Darkness – adapted to the film Apocalypse Now – was born in 1857 Berdichev, Poland (now Ukraine).
On this day in 1947, Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire premiered on Broadway. Lead actor Marlon Brando's career jumpstarted from there.
And, Camelot opened on Broadway on this date in 1960. The film adaptation in 1967 featured Richard Harris as King Arthur.
A once and shining moment . . .