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CelticStoic 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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Chipping away at literature, history, and other interests, whilst navigating stormy seas and a lee shore. Retired engineer. #TodaysPoem #poetry Locus: The abyss of MECFS / FQAD 🌤️Sol Omnibus Lucet – Petronius
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CelticStoic 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 6d
Blue of lake and sky
You enter through silent shade
I need not know how
Or why

From my wife's walk today:
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 3d
Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Adam Douglas Thompson. #NewYorkerCartoons

Sign up for our humor newsletter to get Daily Cartoons delivered to your inbox: nyer.cm/0EivDaD
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CelticStoic 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 18h
"Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, you all had great moments, but you never tasted the supreme triumph; you were never a farm boy riding in from the fields on a bulging rack of new-mown hay."

- Grant Wood (1891 - 1942)

Grant Wood. Fall Plowing. 1931.
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CelticStoic 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 23h
Bravo🌿
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CelticStoic 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 1d
Bee-utiful 😍🫢
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CelticStoic 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 1d
"The one red leaf, the last of its clan,
That dances as often as dance it can,
Hanging so light, and hanging so high,
On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.”

― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, c. 1798

From my wife's walk:
From the poem "Christabel" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Said to explore good and evil, innocence and experience, and the corrupting power of the supernatural.
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CelticStoic 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 1d
"The strange randomness of the world beguiled him, that randomness which never would, so long as the world lasted, give meaning to those choruses again."

- James Hilton, 1934
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CelticStoic 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 2d
#MelvilleMonday +1

Below is Melville's footnote to his poem The Conflict of Convictions. Note the date – just a few months before the start of the Civil War.🕯️
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CelticStoic 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 2d
#MelvilleMonday

"What if the gulfs their slimed foundations bare?
So deep must the stones be hurled
Whereon the throes of ages rear
The final empire and the happier world."

- Melville, The Conflict of Convictions (c. 1860-1)

The Sentinel by the Gate. Ernest A. Pickup. 1934.
"The Sentinel by the Gate" by Ernest A. Pickup (American,1887 - 1970). Date: 1934. Medium: Woodcut Source: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri. Gift of the Woodcut Society. Fair use.
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CelticStoic 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 3d
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CelticStoic 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 3d
Bravo, Michele.🕯️🕯️
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CelticStoic 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 3d
Very well said. Best wishes for a peaceful pause.🍂
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CelticStoic 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 4d
#SundaySentence

"Coming to terms with death is a necessary element in any
great poem, Sullivan once said."

- Joan London, The Golden Age (2014)
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CelticStoic 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 4d
Wonderful book. I re-read it every few years.🎓
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CelticStoic 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 4d
"Strange, in a way, that the sacrifices of one generation should so cancel out those of another."

- James Hilton, 1934
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CelticStoic 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 4d
Wonderful photo.

My wife recently acquired a vintage copy of A Treasury of Great Recipes. In addition to the recipes, we both love their perfectly engaging background stories. Magnifique!
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CelticStoic 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 6d
Joyous💛
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CelticStoic 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 6d
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CelticStoic 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 6d
Too high, too high.
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CelticStoic 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 6d
I've never seen a childhood photo. That same beautiful smile she had to her last days.🩶🕯️
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CelticStoic 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 6d
Thank you🌿
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CelticStoic 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 6d
Blue of lake and sky
You enter through silent shade
I need not know how
Or why

From my wife's walk today:
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CelticStoic 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 6d
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CelticStoic 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 7d
Bravo: Herman + horology.⚓️⏱️
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 7d
"If we lose hope, we're doomed."

We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.
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CelticStoic 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 7d
"Touchy, no sense of humor, no sense of proportion - that was the matter with them, these new fellows. ... No sense of proportion."

- James Hilton, 1934
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