Something Beautiful

Lake Lucerne

How about another Albert Bierstadt? Here's another one from the Northeast -- Lake Lucerne, 1858.

Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902)

Albert Bierstadt at Artcyclopedia - lots of excellent paintings, mostly landscapes, mostly the American West.

Here's just one -- Mount Corcoran, ca. 1876.  If you use the MFAH's zoom feature, you'll see that this work is to die for. 

The Matterhorn

The Matterhorn, the most famous mountain in the Alps.

xThe Shirt

The Shirt, a poem by Robert Pinsky. Quite moving.

Steven's Showcase

I do love me a nice Irish cemetery.   

That photo comes from a set dubbed Steven's Showcase which has several other pictures I liked.   Like this this one.

Dorothy Day

Any essay by Robert J. Ellsberg is likely to be a gem.  An essay by him about Dorothy Day is a can't miss - Five Years With Dorothy Day.

I was especially taken with this last paragraph --

Dorothy was a great believer in what de Caussade called 'the sacrament of the present moment.' In each situation, in each encounter, in each task before us, she believed, there is a path to God. We do not need to be in a monastery or a chapel. We do not need to become different people first. We can start today, this moment, where we are, to add to the balance of love in the world, to add to the balance of peace. 

   

Churches in the Faroe Islands

Be prepared to be impressed - Churches in the Faroe Islands.   

This page drew my attention to these islands, and then I searched out the page with the churches.  The Faroes are closer to Scotland and Norway, but they belong to Denmark. 

Be yourself (really)

I'm going to put this here because it is something I need to remember --

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

I also like this: "Run your own race."

Owl

I've mentioned that I love owls.  Here's one at the St Vallier Station, in Quebec, Canada.

For good measure, here's another pic by the same photographer.