Beneath these fruit-tree boughs that shed

Their snow-white blossoms on my head,

With brightest sunshine round me spread

Of Spring's unclouded weather

In this sequestered nook how sweet

To sit upon my orchard seat,

And birds and flowers once more to greet,

My last year's friends together.

~ William Wordsworth

~ Wm. Wordsworth, English Romantic Poet (April 7, 1770 - April 23, 1850)

"..above everything else, Emily Carr was a truly great Canadian.  Her devotion to her own land marked everything she did.  She approached no subject in writing or painting with any condescension of purely artistic self-consciousness.  She was driven always by a passion to make her own experience in the place in which life had set her vivid and real for the onlooker or the reader and to do this with dignity and distinction.  She found life in her part of Canada often hard and baffling but always rich and full.  It was her single purpose to share through the medium of her art and in as memorable a fashion as possible the experiences of her life."  ~ Ira Dilworth


~ Emily Carr (1871 - 1945) Canadian artist, author. The Emily Carr COLLECTION.  Four Complete and Unabridged Canadian Classics.Prospero Books.  www.keyporter.com 2002

Emily Carr Exhibition, "From the Forest to The Sea" April 11 - August 9, 2015, AGO Toronto, ON

KEEP A POEM IN YOUR POCKET

Keep a poem in your pocket
and a picture in your head
and you'll never feel lonely
at night when you're in bed.

The little poem will sing to you
The little picture bring to you
a dozen dreams to dance to you 
at night when you're in bed.

So ~
Keep a picture in your pocket and a poem in your head
and you'll never feel lonely
at night when you're in bed.

~ Beatrice Schenk de Regniers

ME
As long as I live
I shall always be
My Self--and no other,
Just me.

Like a tree,
Willow, elder,
Aspen, thorn,
Or cypress forlorn.

Like a flower,
For its hour--
Primrose, or pink,
Or a violet--
Sunned by the sun,
And with dewdrops wet.

Always just me.

~Walter de la Mare (April 25, 1873 - June 22, 1956)  English poet, novelist best known for his work for children.

Beside The Neat Little Bookshop

Please note:  The Neat L'l Bookshop is temporarily closed today.  We will post updates.

Smile for Today ~

"If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune." ~ Count Basie (Aug. 21, 1904  - Apr 26, 1984)

"Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom.  If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn." ~ Charlie Parker (1920 - March 12, 1955)

"The only thing better than signing is more singing."  ~ Ella Fitzgerald (Apr 25, 1917 - June 15, 1996)

"All music is folk music.  I ain't never heard no horse sing a song. ~ Louis Armstrong (1901 - 1971)

"What is soul?  It's like electricity.  We don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room."  ~ Ray Charles (1930 - 2004)

"I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues."  ~ Duke Ellington (April 29 - May 24 1974)

"I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days.  A whole lot of things would've been straightened out."  ~ Jimi Hendrix (1942 - 1970)

"Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know."  ~ Louis Armstrong, asked what jazz is.


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Happy Earth Day ~