ACCUSTOMED, CEREMONIOUS
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| The Dandelion Clock
William John Hennessy (1839 - 1917) |
And, in keeping with the observation of Michaelmas
on September 29th, I like to read the following as
"Late September" . . .
"Late August brought with it a longing for fall. By the end of the month the grass was brown, singed by days of heat and no rain. Mirella's impatiens, usually a bright pink and red mound on either side of the back doorstep, were small and lack luster. The air smelled strangely of basalt and car exhaust, and of marine life flung up on the beaches by the tide and cooked by the sun. . . . With so much wanting came all the promise and damage of the world" (295, 298)*****************
" 'Listen to me, Howard. You and Mirella are adults. The lives of adults are complicated and generally somehow bad.'
" 'Thanks,' said Howard, surprised to find this observation reassuring. . . . somehow in the end everything in his life would still happen to him. (191)
"Mirella wondered if what she herself had been forgetting all this time, for years and years, was that none of this would last very long, that all of this, the terrible desirable, exhausting plenitude of her life -- the children, Howard, this house, her job -- all of her worries and failures and abilities and cares, all of it mattered so dearly, but so briefly, and that it was all in a way nearly over, even the parts of her life that were still to come." (301)
from A Perfect Arrangement
by Suzanne Berne
[see also Longly, Nanny, 2003, Houses]
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| The Pride of Dijon 1879
William John Hennessy (1839 - 1917) |
Just when I think I may have finished my review of paintings that we enjoyed every day on the walls of our old Victorian house, I seem to recall a few more favorites. The two above by Hennessy were in our dining room; and the two below were in the kitchen. I don't know how we managed to fit them all in, but somehow we were always finding space in our ever - expanding design scheme of complication and plenitude!
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| Flower Pots 1887
Paul Cezanne (1839 - 1906) |
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| Hollyhocks, 1911
Frederick Carl Frieseke (1874 - 1939) |
Previously: To See A Fine Picture
Going Barefoot
Kitchen Art
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