Care Package for Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020

Poetry: She Walks in Beauty by George Gordon ByronI.She walks in beauty, like the nightOf cloudless climes and starry skies;Read more Song In My Head: What a Time to Be Alive by Superchunk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9ZFFP1fUXI Art: Menashe Kadishman’s SHEEP Portfolio, 3 Photo credit: artsy.net Quote: “Only by being a man or woman for others, does one …

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Care Package for Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020

Poetry: Quest by Carrie Williams CliffordMy goal out-distances the utmost star,Yet is encompassed in my inmost Soul;Read more Song In My Head: Galileo by Indigo Girls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI1keSSwdcI Art: Ayman Baalbaki’s Untitled Photo credit: tate.org.uk Quote: “It is easy to look down on others; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.” – Walter Savage Landor …

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Care Package for Monday, Aug. 10, 2020

Poetry: No, You Shut Up by Raymond McDanielThe world baffles with sounds,the worst of which is a human voice.Read more Song In My Head: Have You Ever Seen the Rain? by Minutemen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU1rYnPlS6Y Art: Carlile Henry Hayes Macartney’s Moorland Landscape with Cottages Photo credit: tate.org.uk Quote: “Preservation of one’s own culture does not require contempt …

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Care Package for Sunday, Aug. 9, 2020

Poetry: Wonder by Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge1One summer night, walking from our house after dinner, stars     make the sky almost white.My awe is like blindness; wonder exchanges for sight.Read more Song In My Head: The World At Large by Modest Mouse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppzTFgwZxhc Art: Lee Miller’s Humphrey Jennings Photo credit: npg.org.uk Quote: “Silence in the face of …

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Care Package for Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020

Poetry: The Right to Grief by Carl SandburgTo Certain Poets About to DieTake your fill of intimate remorse, perfumed sorrow,Over the dead child of a millionaire,And the pity of Death refusing any check on the bankRead more (https://poets.org/poem/right-grief) Song In My Head: Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding by Elton John https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p_xAToFzck Art: Margaret Harrison’s …

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