Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, June 6, 1940

4:15 P.M. – a dazzlingly brilliant sun high in the hot blue western sky bringing out with painful intensity the harsh acrid yellow greens of the new verdure— the air clean and bright, a slight breeze from the northeast –

From the house the busy sounds of the girls practicing their Mendelssohn Concerto – emphasizing the stillness of the late spring afternoon – I am filled with contentment, for the moment.

[Burchfield bracketed the next paragraph in red]

[It would be interesting if a record could in some manner be preserved of all the stray thoughts one has in the course of a day – It is impossible to record them, for the mere attempt would stop the stream – and it would be ghastly to have an automatic, unselective method of recording them, for most of us would not care to have our baser lapses perpetuated.]

Charles E. Burchfield, June 6, 1958