Passage Four By all accounts, as I suddenly became a social history miner sifting through boxes of photographs, letters and clippings; the nine decades of footprints did tell a story. Though I knew this person as a friend for nearly forty years of her ninety, there was always so much untold, un-revealed. Respecting the privacy
Passage Three Of Michelangelo it has been said, that he could look at a lump of stone and see the sculpted vision within before it came to life by chisel, dust and sweat. And he left a number of grand footprints over his nearly 89 years. David, the Pieta, Medici Chapel… that ceiling and oh,
Julia Marnie Delaney May 1922 – April 2013 Her 90 year promise of longevity was fulfilled largely through great health, wholesome food, fitness and rum; keeping a wide cross section of good friends from every generation over many decades and from a continuous curiosity in learning things about the greater world around her – keenly,
Passage Two In the book titled “The Lost Battles” (2010), commenting on the literary works of Leonardo da Vinci, Jonathan Jones makes the point: “…for Leonardo got no closer to complete scientific theories than he did to finished works of art. It is the process, the journey, that mattered to him as both the artist
Passage One Spring has arrived! Well some days not so much. Perhaps it’s been this wintry time that has dragged out longer this year; that it’s taken me a while to get to this primavera musing about a promise of longevity. It’s been a cold wind at my neck; this nagging question, if we are