Poetry: Polar Night by Lewis WarshMaybe if you could see yourselffrom a distanceyou could see what people see when they see you up closeRead More Song In My Head: Everyday I Write the Book by Elvis Costello https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1d4r9awjKE Art: Gerald Laing’s Skydiver VI Photo credit: tate.org.uk Quote: “Aging is not ‘lost youth’ but a new stage …
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Care Package for Monday, Dec. 14, 2020
Poetry: In a Church of Padua by Herman MelvilleIn vaulted place where shadows flit,An upright sombre box you see:A door, but fast, and lattice none.Read More Song In My Head: On the Radio by Regina Spektor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHAhnJbGy9M Art: Richard Dadd’s The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke Photo credit: tate.org.uk Quote: “It is justice, not charity, that is …
Care Package for Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020
Poetry: When the Year Grows Old by Edna St. Vincent MillayI cannot but remember When the year grows old–October-November– How she disliked the cold!Read More Song In My Head: Long December by Counting Crows https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D5PtyrewSs Art: Arthur Lemon’s The Wooing of Daphnis Photo credit: tate.org.uk Quote: “I asked a man in prison once how he …
Care Package for Saturday, Dec. 12, 2020
Poetry: The Old Stoic by Emily BrontëRiches I hold in light esteem, And Love I laugh to scorn;And lust of fame was but a dream, That vanished with the morn:Read More Song In My Head: Game to Lose by I’m With Her https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZjI_we8dXo Art: Charles Samuel Keene’s ‘Incorrigible!’ Photo credit: tate.org.uk Quote: “Be …
Care Package for Friday, Dec. 11, 2020
Poetry: States of decline by Taylor JohnsonThe room is dying honey and lemon rind.Soured light. My grandmother sits in her chairsweetening into the blue velvet. Domesticdeclining is the window that never opens– Read More Song In My Head: Longest Days by John Mellancamp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SipZ2G31uls&t=43s Art: Alexander Young Jackson’s The Entrance to Halifax Harbour Photo credit: tate.org.uk …