A city spectacularly irresistible, pleasant to live, tolerant and culturally to the forefront. This is San Francisco, the city that I love deeply. http://www.sanfrancisco.travel/Â . His night views are unparalleled, observing its bay from the Golden Bridge, as well as fascinating is the modern structure of its Museum of Modern Art. When in the neighborhood of Mission you will have noted …
Read More »JACOPO ROBUSTI or TINTORETTO (1519/1594): The furious painter who used dramatically perspective and light
Jean-Frédéric Bazille (1841/1870), French painter: According impressionism and classical painting, merging people and scenarios.
DAYS IN WHITE: Poetry, by Ingeborg Bachmann
DAYS IN WHITE These days, I get up with birches, and forehead restart interlock the strands of wheat, in front of a mirror of ice. Amalgamated to my breath, sfiocca milk: so early, has easy foam. And where the glass I fogged with breath, seems painted by a child finger, yet your name: innocence! After a long time. These days, …
Read More »WHAT I WANT FOR THE ADVENT GIVE YOU: Poetry, by Christine Busta
WHAT I WANT FOR THE ADVENT GIVE YOU An organ sound antidote to the gloomy morning, my breath against the cold wind of the day, snowflakes as a promise of stars at night and a light to the path of those who had given up for lost, Angel, who in the middle of the night announces the rebirth of love. …
Read More »AGAINST TIME: Poetry, by Louis Untermeyer
AGAINTS TIME The event stands clear of history. Originality is not in ranks of trees, but in this tree; and every fruit is the first fruit, shapely and absolute. Events afe individuaI as pain. This dar, this trouble, fingering rain, has never been. Beauty comes clean, in the cock’s rusty vowels or in sky-searching towers, that lift themselves light as …
Read More »BEAUTIFUL BEACHES AND MONTE AINOS: Welcome to the Island of Kefalonia
The oldest objects tell the story of a human presence that began around 50,000. C., but those finds were added expressions of Mycenaean culture, the Roman presence and that – centuries – the Venetian Republic. When you’re in Argostoli (the capital of the island), also you will remain fascinated by its bay and the narrow streets of the city. To …
Read More »EMIL NOLDE (1867/1956), German painter: Shades of art closely connected to the earth, remembering Rembrandt, Goya and Manet.
WITH ALTERNATE KEY: Poetry, by Paul Celan
WITH ALTERNATE KEY With alternate key, you schiudi the house where the snow whirls of things left unsaid. Depending on the blood that oozes from eye, mouth and ear, varying your key. Vary your key, you change the word which is granted twirl slap. Depending on the wind that pushes you away, it coagulates around the word, the snow. (Paul …
Read More »THE DISAPPEARED: Poetry, by Hans Magnus Enzensberger
THE DISAPPEARED The disappeared as the earth swallowed them up, was the air? As the shores of the sea innumerable; however, lay not in the arena, but in anything, ranks forgotten. And often hand to hand, as the minutes of us closer together, but no memory, not registered, not decipherable in the dust but disappeared, their names, the spoons, the …
Read More »CHERRIES: Poetry, by Günter Grass
CHERRIES When love on stilts, teases the gravel paths, and up to the trees arrive, I’d love to recognize I cherries as cherries, not shorter arms, using stairs which always missing some peg, live cascaticcia fruit, stewed fruit . Sweet and sweeter, almost black; blackbirds make dreams so red. Who gives kisses and who, when the love on stilts, to …
Read More »Franz Marc (1880/1916), German painter: Traces of Van Gogh in his expressionism, in portraits and landscapes.
Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka (1853/1919), Hungarian painter: The lure of a sunny afternoon, the journey in the colors of an eccentric man
PERSPECTIVE FROM TWO POINTS: Poetry, by Wislawa Szymborska
PERSPECTIVE FROM TWO POINTS Have crossed as strangers, without a word or a gesture, she directed to the store, he to his car. Perhaps you lost, or distracted, or forgetful that he had, for a brief moment, cherished forever. Besides, no guarantee that they would. Yes, perhaps, from a distance, but up close anything at all. I saw them from …
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