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My American Hero

"The deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless. It is beyond words, it is beyond speech, and it is beyond concept. Not that we discover a new unity. We discover an older unity. My dear Brothers, we are already one. But we imagine that we are not. And what we have to recover is our original unity. What we have to be is what we are." - Thomas Merton: The Asian Journal

Jesus Christ - Woody Guthrie

Woody's got a thing or two to say to the right-wing, Bible-waving haters.

Woody Guthrie~ All You Fascists Bound To Lose

C'mon, fellow lefties...let's cheer up!

Woody Guthrie

What a great photo. I love the insouciant defiance in Guthrie's demeanor!

Mann und Frau den Monde betrachtend - Caspar David Friedrich

Feeling gloomy, autumnal and German...so naturally I had to post something by the morose and sublime Caspar David Friedrich.

Si iniquitates observaveris - Samuel Wesley

Invincible beauty! Irrefutable, victorious beauty!

Rivendell - J.R.R. Tolkien

Let's go there!

Bilbo Comes to the Huts of the Raft Elves - J.R.R. Tolkien

This thrills me!

Archbishop Desmond Tutu

This is what a bishop is supposed to be. "If governments knew how subversive contemplative prayer is, they would ban it." - Desmond Tutu

Sir Kay Breaketh His Sword at ye Tournament - Howard Pyle

Howard Pyle was one of the great lights of the Golden Age of illustration. Along with his pupil, the magnificent N.C. Wyeth, he is among the greatest of American illustrators. The above is from his book, The Story of King Arthur and his Knights.

View From Cookham Bridge - Sir Stanley Spencer

One of the glories of twentieth century British art. Don't you want to be standing on that bridge in the pale sunlight, smelling the water?