Courage! It is only one of Thoreau’s steps, by which we ascend.
On way to work. A great swooping wind out of the southwest. The tree tops roar against the cold gray sky; the clouds spit down a few wild flakes of snow now and then.
Must a man after all be a hard physical worker to enjoy the world
Peggy over to spend Christmas vacation with us. How fortunate we are to have a little girl like Peggy who wantsto be with us at a time like this!
In speaking of the Coronation pageant, Fonseka said “Why all this tinsel and tissue paper?” I wonder if he was thinking only of pageant decorations...
"... “Your notion of artistic creation is as blasphemous as your notion of the Contemplative life. You should not emulate God, not duplicate creation, but stay on earth and beautify.”..."
All day on "Star" picture - bringing it pretty well to a conclusion, altho of course there will have to be refinements later on.
I was born in, and grew up, in humble circumstances — and all my life the subject matter for my art has been the same sort of material –
On the Sunday before Christmas, Hank and Mart came over, with the children – then went out and found us a beautiful tree (white spruce) set it up and trimmed it.
Well its beginning to seem a little like Christmas, now. Getting ready for Christmas is more fun than the realization. Wordsworth – I think it was Wordsworth –