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The Cultivating Amateur

Esther Jane

"The artist needs to be complemented by the cultivated amateur, who...has some idea what to do with the artist's work." Northrop Frye

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Francisco de Goya - Ghostly Vision

“But have I now seen death? Is this the way
I must return to native dust? O sight
Of terror, foul and ugly to behold,
Horrid to think, how horrible to feel!"

Paradise Lost XI

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An Ode to Motes, a Meditation on Dust, and related things

Vilhelm Hammershøi, Dust Motes Dancing in Sunbeams

For you are dust and to dust you shall return.

Genesis 3:16

For He Himself knows our frame; He is mindful that we are but dust.

Psalm 103:14

… remember, Lord, that we are dust, and tha...

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Escape

The Path in the Forest, Ivan Shishkin

The Lord God, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, declares, “I will gather yet others to him besides those already gathered.”

Isaiah 56:8

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Sick Days

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Sick Days

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A Lover Laments, the Beloved Replies

Allegory of the Eucharist, Alexander Coosemans

What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits toward me?

I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the Lord.

Psalm 116

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    Christian, wife, mother, non-academic. I write about what interests me, mostly literature, sometimes education, always with the goal of seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary.

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