The Laughing Heart
by
Charles Bukowski

'The fortnight in Venice passed quickly and sweetly — perhaps too sweetly; I was drowning in honey, stingless.'
~ Evelyn Waugh, 'Brideshead Revisited'

🎨 John Singer Sargent

“Childhood is not from birth to a certain
age and at a certain age
The child is grown, and puts away
childish things.
Childhood is the kingdom where
nobody dies.”
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay

• In the Daisy Field •
Photograph from 1908

Mary Oliver 🖎

Pink Moon rising as the Rooks settle and a Tawny Owl calls.

Rounding off #ShakespeareDay with this great little sketch featuring Rowan Atkinson and Hugh Laurie 😃

The folks are currently in Austria.

And I approve of this house's name.

“How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.”
~ J.R.R. Tolkien

— e. e. cummings

'The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.'
~ Michel de Montaigne

The Seine at Chatou (1881)
🎨 Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Writing songs is my happy place. It's where I resolve everything.

All is Rendered Splendid ⤵️

Every time I hear Kate Bush on the radio I always get the nagging suspicion that alien civilizations far beyond our ken are listening to her also. (As in... Planet Earth gets mined for its Art, and the 'Gold' is then relayed throughout the entire Cosmos.) youtu.be/VerK4zwMRQw?si…

A gentle poem to round off the day ✨️

New Week, New Words! 🤠

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