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Tag Archives: Life
“I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.”
- Winston Churchill
Posted in Laughter is Medicine
Tagged Death, funny, Humor, humorous, laugher is the best medicine, Laughter, Life, Love, Mortality, Quote, Winston Churchill
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In the Eyes of Others: Jodie Carey
A look at Carey’s awe-inspiring art installation confronts the way we consider death and mortality in regards to ourselves and to others
Born in 1981, Jodie Carey is a London-based artist whose work is well-known for its focus on mortality and the way we perceive and experience life and death (specifically in contemporary Western society). One installation in particular – “In the … Continue reading
Posted in Soulful Expressions
Tagged Art, Bones, Chandelier, Death, In the Eyes of Others, Jodie Carey, Jodie Carey art, Life, London, Modern Art, Mortality, Sculpture
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Fed by the Shadow of Death
Renaissance painters were masters of light, life, death and shadow
The cultural bloom of the Italian – and wider European – Renaissance was fed by the shadow of death. The bubonic plague was carried by fleas traveling on rodents, who then hitched rides along the expanding trade routes in the … Continue reading
“For poems are like rainbows: they escape you quickly.”
—Langston Hughes, The Big Sea
Posted in A Rite of Passage
Tagged Death Poems, Death Quotes, Langston Hughes, Life, Memorial Sayings, poems, Quotes about Life, Rainbow, The Big Sea
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Maurice Sendak: “I Am in Love with The World”
The Where The Wild Things Are author talks about living every day of your life in wonder and awe
Maurice Sendak was the embodiment of childlike whimsy, even in his final years. In fact, the beloved children’s author was more enchanted by the beauty of life as he got older. In an illustrated interview with “Fresh Air,” Sendak talks … Continue reading
Seeing Emptiness
Life and death in Mark Rothko's paintings
Staring at the floating colors, I find myself weeping. As my eyes fall into the deep, red abyss, my mind fills the void with everything: love, life, grief, death. The gift of the abstract is that we infill its apparent emptiness … Continue reading
Posted in Soulful Expressions
Tagged Abstract art, Art, Color field, Death, Death and Dying, Emptiness, Grief, Life, Mark Rothko, Rothko Chapel Project
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