In time of daffodils
@themoonlookson.bsky.social
‘Failing and Flying ‘by Jack Gilbert
“I believe Icarus was not failing as he fell,
but just coming to the end of his triumph.”
“I believe Icarus was not failing as he fell,
but just coming to the end of his triumph.”
November 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
‘Failing and Flying ‘by Jack Gilbert
“I believe Icarus was not failing as he fell,
but just coming to the end of his triumph.”
“I believe Icarus was not failing as he fell,
but just coming to the end of his triumph.”
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
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
September 27, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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
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."
"...old stones that cannot be deciphered."
September 19, 2025 at 6:25 PM
T. S. Eliot - from East Coker (Four Quartets)
"...old stones that cannot be deciphered."
"...old stones that cannot be deciphered."
Henry Miller - Black Spring (page 14)
"...everything moves on shifting levels - our thoughts, our dreams, our actions, our whole life."
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"...everything moves on shifting levels - our thoughts, our dreams, our actions, our whole life."
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September 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Henry Miller - Black Spring (page 14)
"...everything moves on shifting levels - our thoughts, our dreams, our actions, our whole life."
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"...everything moves on shifting levels - our thoughts, our dreams, our actions, our whole life."
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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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All lies and jest
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest...
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July 19, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Paul Simon
All lies and jest
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest...
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All lies and jest
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest...
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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
"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
June 14, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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
"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
May 17, 2025 at 7:16 AM
The late & great Raymond Carver:
"My bowl is empty. But it's my bowl, you see, and I love it."
"My bowl is empty. But it's my bowl, you see, and I love it."
May 15, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The late & great Raymond Carver:
"My bowl is empty. But it's my bowl, you see, and I love it."
"My bowl is empty. But it's my bowl, you see, and I love it."
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?
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Whoa! Is that Bobby and the ghost of Big Joe Williams I see?
May 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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?
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Whoa! Is that Bobby and the ghost of Big Joe Williams I see?
Alexander Calder
“My circles aren’t perfect – and I don’t want them to be”
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“My circles aren’t perfect – and I don’t want them to be”
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May 4, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Alexander Calder
“My circles aren’t perfect – and I don’t want them to be”
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“My circles aren’t perfect – and I don’t want them to be”
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Lenka Clayton
'Half a Dozen Eggs, Quarter of a Dozen Raisins' (2018)
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'Half a Dozen Eggs, Quarter of a Dozen Raisins' (2018)
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April 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Lenka Clayton
'Half a Dozen Eggs, Quarter of a Dozen Raisins' (2018)
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'Half a Dozen Eggs, Quarter of a Dozen Raisins' (2018)
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Bob and Joan were standing in front of a poster designed by Seymour Chwast for Booth’s Gin with Joan casually blocking the actual product image to highlight the message…
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April 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Bob and Joan were standing in front of a poster designed by Seymour Chwast for Booth’s Gin with Joan casually blocking the actual product image to highlight the message…
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Daniel Kramer’s photograph of Bob Dylan & Joan Baez at Newark Airport, 1964.
Protest Against the Rising Tide of Conformity
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Protest Against the Rising Tide of Conformity
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April 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Daniel Kramer’s photograph of Bob Dylan & Joan Baez at Newark Airport, 1964.
Protest Against the Rising Tide of Conformity
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Protest Against the Rising Tide of Conformity
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What We Want - Linda Pastan
"We don't remember the dream,
but the dream remembers us."
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"We don't remember the dream,
but the dream remembers us."
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April 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
What We Want - Linda Pastan
"We don't remember the dream,
but the dream remembers us."
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"We don't remember the dream,
but the dream remembers us."
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David hockney - Dark Mist, 1973 (from The Weather Series)
“there is no such thing as bad weather.”
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“there is no such thing as bad weather.”
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April 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
David hockney - Dark Mist, 1973 (from The Weather Series)
“there is no such thing as bad weather.”
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“there is no such thing as bad weather.”
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Georgia’s sister, Ida O'Keeffe (1889 – 1961) got a master's in fine arts from Columbia University and squeezed in creating and exhibiting art while working a series of jobs that included teaching art at schools and working as a nurse.
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Spring Lethargy Texas, by Ida O'Keeffe
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Spring Lethargy Texas, by Ida O'Keeffe
March 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Georgia’s sister, Ida O'Keeffe (1889 – 1961) got a master's in fine arts from Columbia University and squeezed in creating and exhibiting art while working a series of jobs that included teaching art at schools and working as a nurse.
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Spring Lethargy Texas, by Ida O'Keeffe
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Spring Lethargy Texas, by Ida O'Keeffe
The Three Daughters of Helios by Rudy Weller (1992)
Look up, when next at Piccadilly Circus (on the corner of Jermyn St. & Haymarket) & you'll see Euphrosyne, Aglaea & Thalia leaping from the rooftop of the Criterion Building - may they fill you with mirth, beauty & youth.
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Look up, when next at Piccadilly Circus (on the corner of Jermyn St. & Haymarket) & you'll see Euphrosyne, Aglaea & Thalia leaping from the rooftop of the Criterion Building - may they fill you with mirth, beauty & youth.
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February 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The Three Daughters of Helios by Rudy Weller (1992)
Look up, when next at Piccadilly Circus (on the corner of Jermyn St. & Haymarket) & you'll see Euphrosyne, Aglaea & Thalia leaping from the rooftop of the Criterion Building - may they fill you with mirth, beauty & youth.
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Look up, when next at Piccadilly Circus (on the corner of Jermyn St. & Haymarket) & you'll see Euphrosyne, Aglaea & Thalia leaping from the rooftop of the Criterion Building - may they fill you with mirth, beauty & youth.
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Joni Mitchell - A Case of you (live, London, 1983)
“Oh, I could drink a case of you, darling
And I would still be on my feet”
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youtu.be/f_OtHVLAF4o
Photos: Jack Robinson for Vogue magazine, 1968.
“Oh, I could drink a case of you, darling
And I would still be on my feet”
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youtu.be/f_OtHVLAF4o
Photos: Jack Robinson for Vogue magazine, 1968.
February 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Joni Mitchell - A Case of you (live, London, 1983)
“Oh, I could drink a case of you, darling
And I would still be on my feet”
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youtu.be/f_OtHVLAF4o
Photos: Jack Robinson for Vogue magazine, 1968.
“Oh, I could drink a case of you, darling
And I would still be on my feet”
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youtu.be/f_OtHVLAF4o
Photos: Jack Robinson for Vogue magazine, 1968.
Paolo Ventura
"I use photography not to describe reality but to tell a reconstructed story, an imaginary world.”
Ventura makes images of what he calls “invented worlds” or “ir-realities,”
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'Dubliners' (featured in an article in the NYTimes)
"I use photography not to describe reality but to tell a reconstructed story, an imaginary world.”
Ventura makes images of what he calls “invented worlds” or “ir-realities,”
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'Dubliners' (featured in an article in the NYTimes)
February 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Paolo Ventura
"I use photography not to describe reality but to tell a reconstructed story, an imaginary world.”
Ventura makes images of what he calls “invented worlds” or “ir-realities,”
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'Dubliners' (featured in an article in the NYTimes)
"I use photography not to describe reality but to tell a reconstructed story, an imaginary world.”
Ventura makes images of what he calls “invented worlds” or “ir-realities,”
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'Dubliners' (featured in an article in the NYTimes)
Sappho
This way, that way
I do not know
what to do: I
am of two minds
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Peter Gergardovich Dick - At The Threshold (1979)
This way, that way
I do not know
what to do: I
am of two minds
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Peter Gergardovich Dick - At The Threshold (1979)
February 1, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Sappho
This way, that way
I do not know
what to do: I
am of two minds
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Peter Gergardovich Dick - At The Threshold (1979)
This way, that way
I do not know
what to do: I
am of two minds
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Peter Gergardovich Dick - At The Threshold (1979)
e e cummings – 'in time of...'
January 26, 2025 at 9:27 AM
e e cummings – 'in time of...'
A table in Vesuvio’s, San Francisco (table design by Shawn O’Shaughnessy)
...and outside in Jack Kerouac Alley, inscribed on the paving stone, this from Lawrence Ferlinghetti:
“Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.”
Photo - 2019
...and outside in Jack Kerouac Alley, inscribed on the paving stone, this from Lawrence Ferlinghetti:
“Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.”
Photo - 2019
January 24, 2025 at 9:17 AM
A table in Vesuvio’s, San Francisco (table design by Shawn O’Shaughnessy)
...and outside in Jack Kerouac Alley, inscribed on the paving stone, this from Lawrence Ferlinghetti:
“Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.”
Photo - 2019
...and outside in Jack Kerouac Alley, inscribed on the paving stone, this from Lawrence Ferlinghetti:
“Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.”
Photo - 2019
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham - Pen and ink ‘linear meditations'
"lines for the pleasure of themselves..."
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Seven Lines No.2 (1982)
"lines for the pleasure of themselves..."
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Seven Lines No.2 (1982)
January 23, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham - Pen and ink ‘linear meditations'
"lines for the pleasure of themselves..."
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Seven Lines No.2 (1982)
"lines for the pleasure of themselves..."
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Seven Lines No.2 (1982)
Federico García Lorca - A Sailor, 1934. The inscription reads:
“Only through mystery do we live, only through mystery.”
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“Only through mystery do we live, only through mystery.”
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January 17, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Federico García Lorca - A Sailor, 1934. The inscription reads:
“Only through mystery do we live, only through mystery.”
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“Only through mystery do we live, only through mystery.”
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Kimono design by Ueno Seiko, c1902
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January 13, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Kimono design by Ueno Seiko, c1902
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