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 …
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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 …
Care Package for Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020
Poetry: To … by Rene CharYou have been my love for so many years,It makes me dizzy to think of so much hope,And my dizziness won’t be aged, or cooled;Read More Song In My Head: That Don’t Impress Me Much by Haim https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_0JnoioEpY Art: Gwyther Irwin’s Red Flush Photo credit: tate.org.uk Quote: “You can’t teach …
Care Package for Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020
Poetry: Gratitude by Jon DavisForget each slight, each head that turnedToward something more intriguing –Red flash of wing beyond the window,Read More Song In My Head: People Get Ready by The Impressions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l04yM7-BWbg Art: John Frederick Herring’s The Frugal Meal Photo credit: tate.org.uk Quote: “Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come …