“Solar Eclipse 2024” | Anthony Satori
“such a sky and such a sun ~ i never knew and neither did you ~ and everybody never breathed ~ quite so many kinds of yes”
– e. e. cummings
So Many Kinds of Yes
literature
Responsive to the World’s Beauty
“Bisque” | Anthony Satori
“What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world’s beauty, is everything.”
– H. P. Lovecraft
Where to be Happiest
“The First Poppies” | Anthony Satori
“When spring came, there were no problems except where to be happiest.”
– Ernest Hemingway
Trust the Creator
“Clarion” | Anthony Satori
“All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all that I have not seen.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
I wish everyone a very Happy New Year, filled with health, prosperity, joy, and love!
The Highest Praise
“Snowcapped” | Anthony Satori
“The highest praise of God consists in the denial of Him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a Creator.”
– Marcel Proust
The Wisdom of Nature
“In the Eyes” | Anthony Satori
“The wisdom of nature speaks out of the peaceful glance of animals. In them the whole phenomenon is still firmly attached to the stem of nature from which it has sprung, and partakes of the unconscious omniscience of the great mother.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer
The Miraculous in the Common
“Grasshopper” | Anthony Satori
“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thoughts Which Are Prayers
“Prayer” | Anthony Satori
“There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.”
– Victor Hugo
An Illusion, a Shadow, a Story
“Stroll” | Anthony Satori
“What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. All life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.”
– Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Sacred Excellences
“Old Glory” | Anthony Satori
“Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and verity are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.”
– Cicero
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