Filling the Well: Donna Tartt and Micah

 

"Laughing Buddha" by Khaled Monsoor

 

I had the epiphany that laughter was light, 

and light was laughter, and that this 

was the secret of the universe.

 

– Donna Tartt, from The Goldfinch

 

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP4abiHdQpc

 

 

 

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

 

 

Filling the Well: Jean Houston and Lunch Break Quartet

 

Furfante

 

At the height of laughter, the universe 

is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

 

– Jean Houston

"Old MacDonald's Deformed Farm" by Lunch Break

(Barbershop Quartet)

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

April 1: John Muir

April 2: e.e. cummings and enra

April 3: Edith Wharton and Henri Matisse

April 4: Cesare Pavese 

April 5: Anton Chekhov and Cat Stevens

April 6: Ray Bradbury and... cats 

April 7: Oliver Wendell Holmes and Hanjin Song

April 8: Albert Einstein and John Bohannon

April 9: Florence Parry Heide and Andres Amador

April 10: Zelda Fitzgerald and Arvo Pärt

April 11: Elinor Wylie

April 12: David Ault and Imogen Heap

April 13: William Shakespeare and Alice Tzue

April 14: Bruce Garrabrandt and OK Go

April 15: Anne Kent Rush and Bill T. Jones

April 16: Carl Sandburg and Louis Armstrong

April 17: Jean Houston and Lunch Break Quartet

Two Line Tuesday: Irish Blessing

"Clover gleefully basks in the afternoon sun." — Evan Long

May the lilt of Irish laughter

lighten every load.

– Irish Blessing

Two Line Tuesday: Rafael Sabatini

A-maze-ing Laughter by Yue Minjun                                  Photo by Wee Sen Goh

He was born with a gift of laughter 

and a sense that the world was mad.

                                   – Rafael Sabatini 

                                                                            from Scaramouche