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  • Dispatch from Dog Bar: Living in Circles

     

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    Shortly after I moved to Grass Valley, I heard two poets on our local radio station KVMR discussing the Rainer Maria Rilke poem I Live My Life in Widening Circles.  They talked as if everyone knew this poem.  I had never heard it, but it stayed with me.  I thought I would share it today with some images from 2010.

     

    I live my life in widening circles
    that reach out across the world.
    I may not complete this last one
    but I give myself to it.

    I circle around God, around the primordial tower.
    I've been circling for thousands of years
    and I still don't know: am I a falcon,
    a storm, or a great song?

    – Rainer Maria Rilke

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    Thank you for reading, commenting, and sharing my blog with other dog art lovers. Wishing you a happy new year as you circle into 2011.

    Best,

    Moira and Darby

    P.S. Yes, I do make resolutions. This year I plan to:

    make art
    grow friends
    SUP on a Boga

  • Veterans Day

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    "Recovered" by M. Henochsberg, 1869

    I hate saying "Happy" Veterans Day because I think war is a sickening waste.  Nothing happy about it, except perhaps when the soldiers come home.  I hope our active soldiers can soon move into the ranks of the veterans and stay there.

    I couldn't find out much about the above lithograph.   The Library of Congress simply states, "Wounded soldier lying on ground with two soldiers kneeling and dog sitting alongside him."

    It was created in 1869 and depicts Civil War soldiers.  I wonder what its purpose was.  Drop me a note if you have any idea.

    My local radio station KVMR is playing songs for veterans, many of them are anti-war.   Click here to listen to a live stream of it — the best local radio station in the land (really).