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  • Rilke Poem + Eakins Photograph

     

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    Three Children and a Dog Playing in the Creek by Thomas Eakins, 1883

    With all its eyes the animal world
    beholds the Open. … Free from death.
    Only we see death; the free animal has its demise
    perpetually behind it and before it always
    God, and when it moves, it moves into eternity,
    the way brooks and running springs move.

      — Rainer Maria Rilke, Eighth Duino Elegy

    Photograph via The Metropolitan Museum of Art

    Poem via Poemas del río Wang my new favorite blog.  Highly recommend.

  • 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