Filling the Well: Edith Wharton and Valérian Desterne

 

Edgar Augusto Galavis

 

My little old dog:

A heart-beat

At my feet

– Edith Wharton

from In Provence and Lyrical Epigrams

 

 

 

"After the Rain"

A short animated film by Valérian Desterne

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEaoaRpRRzo

 

 

 

April 1: Michelle H. Barnes and Cosmo Sheldrake

April 2: Hans Christian Andersen

April 3: Guy Finley, Anneke van Giersbergen and Árstíðir 

April 4: Joseph Campbell and Fabien Weibel

April 5: Salvador Dalí and Pilobolus

April 6: Jacob Nordby and Talking Animals

April 7: Aileen Fisher, XTC, and Takarazuka Ballet

April 8: Amit Ray and Yehuda Amichai

April 9: Frances Hodgson Burnett

April 10: Frank Lloyd Wright, Stéphane Grappelli, and Django Reinhardt

April 11: John Burroughs and Stunts Amazing 

April 12: Beverly Cleary

April 13: Lee Bennett Hopkins and Judy Collins

April 14: X. J. Kennedy, Godfrey Reggio, Philip Glass, and Ron Fricke

April 15: Lucille Clifton, Anthony Howe, and Akeboshi

April 16: Donna Tartt and Micah

April 17: Kobayashi Issa (International Haiku Poetry Day)

April 18: Yasunari Kawabata and Alexander Mercks

April 19: Marcus Aurelius, Odilon Redon, Garip Ay, and Vincent van Gogh

April 20: Shannon L. Alder, Randy Hilliker, and Marina and the Diamonds

April 21: Hayao Miyazaki and Huang Yi

April 22: Emily Dickinson and Louie Schwartzberg (Earth Day)

April 23: William Shakespeare, Marc Colagiovanni, and Peter H. Reynolds

April 24: Victor Hugo and Eugène Carrière

April 25: Romain Rolland, Georges Lemmen, NASA, and The Jive Aces

 

 

Filling the Well: Edith Wharton and Henri Matisse

 

"Open Window, Collioure"              Henri Matisse

 

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

 

– Edith Wharton

 

 

 

 

April 1: John Muir

April 2: e.e. cummings and enra

April 3: Edith Wharton and Henri Matisse