A rapture to read, especially for a river lover like me. Last summer while visiting St Louis we spent a morning at the Lewis and Clark Boat House and museum. This renewed my interest in reading again – in more detail – about their expedition. In the broader expanse of river history that you paint so enjoyably in this post, we all should be more intrigued so we can say with Hughes, “I’ve known rivers…”
"Starry Night Over the Rhône" is awe inspiring, and I'm a little befuddled as to why it isn't as popular with the multitudes as other van Gogh paintings. I would really buy a large coffee mug with this wonderful painting glazed over it.
I came from the desert and I find rivers fascinating. Where I grew up the "river" would dry up in hot summers. So rivers that keep going on and on just feel like magic.
These are amazing! So unique and different in their own ways. River-based landscapes are so serene, thanks for sharing. Starry Night is such an iconic painting.
The juxtaposition between historical art and modern prose shook me out of a slight prejudice that arose in my thoughts when I first began to skim the poetry: "All that can be said has already been said, in terms constructed with such heart-wrenching elegance by history's finest artiststic minds. With the powerful scope and efficiency of AI to replace us in these Instacrammed modern times, we are truly doomed to be dull creators now."
Then disproved by a quote from "The Road," a piece of fiction recently published, I am pleased to see.
Cormac McCarthy is one of the greats. He also wrote entirely on an entire typewriter, which may well have helped him escape the great flattening of online culture
We do live on the planet Water. Spectacular selection that brings peace of mind and joy to the soul! Thanks for sharing it.
A rapture to read, especially for a river lover like me. Last summer while visiting St Louis we spent a morning at the Lewis and Clark Boat House and museum. This renewed my interest in reading again – in more detail – about their expedition. In the broader expanse of river history that you paint so enjoyably in this post, we all should be more intrigued so we can say with Hughes, “I’ve known rivers…”
"Starry Night Over the Rhône" is awe inspiring, and I'm a little befuddled as to why it isn't as popular with the multitudes as other van Gogh paintings. I would really buy a large coffee mug with this wonderful painting glazed over it.
I came from the desert and I find rivers fascinating. Where I grew up the "river" would dry up in hot summers. So rivers that keep going on and on just feel like magic.
I grew up in South Africa in a beautiful tranquil suburb called Three Rivers. As kids we often swam in one, and went kayaking on the other.
We now live in another part of the country in close proximity to a river - in fact we get our domestic and irrigation water from it.
These are amazing! So unique and different in their own ways. River-based landscapes are so serene, thanks for sharing. Starry Night is such an iconic painting.
This feels especially poignant given the appaliing state of England's rivers and lakes.
The juxtaposition between historical art and modern prose shook me out of a slight prejudice that arose in my thoughts when I first began to skim the poetry: "All that can be said has already been said, in terms constructed with such heart-wrenching elegance by history's finest artiststic minds. With the powerful scope and efficiency of AI to replace us in these Instacrammed modern times, we are truly doomed to be dull creators now."
Then disproved by a quote from "The Road," a piece of fiction recently published, I am pleased to see.
Cormac McCarthy is one of the greats. He also wrote entirely on an entire typewriter, which may well have helped him escape the great flattening of online culture
Wow. A single use machine. Thank you for sharing. Focused attention ...
*old typewriter!
what a painfully beautiful post. Thank you
(and for showing Ostyor. unbelievable- the past suddenly tells you "now you remember?")
I was recently thinking about rivers a lot-how some places are more defined by them; what does it mean to whoever lives there; to me.