Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, July 8, 1923

Out to Lankes’— I always feel spiritually stronger when I come away from them — We discussed the follies of the material world — on the front porch– J. J. tells of his trip in the East – (in the front yard poppies & primroses swaying in the breeze–dancing in the hot hazy sunshine) — P.M. at the Shack— we plan for Ecclesiastes illustrations — We discuss the infinity of the universe — both in its greatness & its minuteness — how the atom with its whirling electrons may be peopled as our earth with beings having their revolutions, art movements, wars, etc., or that the great Betelgeuse may be only an atom to some huge being who studies its possibilities as we do our atom —

Outside was a clump of timothy that Lankes had spared the scythe on account of the way it swayed in the breeze –

Oh that it were February and I was walking along the black hills of the Ohio river at night watching the great scudding clouds blotting out the stars.

Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, July 8 , 1923