“My heart with pleasure fills…”

Pond in summer, taken with iPhone4, retouched with photogene

“For each ecstatic instant, we must an anguish pay…”

For each ecstatic instant

“Ergo, God exists.”

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“…did send a dismal sheen”

And now there came both mist and snow,
And it grew wondrous cold:
And ice, mast-high, came floating by,
As green…

Deep in my heart, I do believe

Chief Massasoit sold the town to Miles Standish in 1649 for some coats, hatchets and knives. The land was…

The eloquence of the mute witnesses

Plate 36
A Harvest of Death. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
July 1863
Photographed by Timothy H…

“Empty your heart of its mortal dream…”

The Hosting of the Sidhe

The host is riding from Knocknarea
And…

The family walking past me: Portrait

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A reflection on the creation of unstudied beauty

“…like honey from the bee”

The heavenly blisses
Of his kisses
Fill me with ecstasy.
He’s sweet just like chocolate candy
And just like…