The Gregorian Gardener

Roman Catholic. Church Musician. American. Book & Movie lover.

[guldentusks]

Lino-loon!

[alrauna]

The Moon’s Daughter by Seb McKinnon

[vanessagillings]

After the rain

watercolor and gouache

[oldpaintings]

The Old Shepherds Chief Mourner, c.1837 by Edwin Landseer (English, 1802--1873)

[vanessagillings]

On to the next adventure!

[oldpaintings]

Young Girls at the Piano, 1906 by Gabriel Deluc (French, 1883--1916)

[monacellipress]

Jellyfish mosaic tile piece, Havana, Cuba. From Great Houses of Havana.

[cecilia37]

O Lord and Master of my life, take from me the spirit of sloth, despair, lust of power, and idle talk. But give rather the spirit of chastity, humility, patience, and love to Thy servant. Yea, O Lord and King, grant me to see my own transgressions, and not to judge my brother; for blessed art Thou unto ages of ages. Amen.

-- St. Ephrem the Syrian.

[cecilia37]

"They give us the wings then dismantle the sky."

-- Quoted by Malcolm Guite during his interview with Matt Fradd on Pints with Aquinas.

[leselfov]

We Were Kings by chaitdeshphotography  

[otomokatsuhiro]

KIKI’S DELIVERY SERVICE (1989) dir. hayao miyazaki

[tea-with-mrs-mourning-dove]

[cecilia37]

Before, I had thought him filled with impulsive energy, the switched-on optimism of fools or saints, the one that goes straight ahead without hesitancy into the chaos of everyday believing that because it is life it is to be embraced in all its contingency, and because God is watching and not off, say, spinning the rings round Saturn, the worst that can happen will not be so bad. For the most part, we don't realize how fixed are our judgements of others, how founded they are in first impressions and the smallest evidences we seize on to prove to ourselves that, see, we were right. Standing alongside him in Cleary's, lambent sun-lances in both our chests, I understood that I had been wrong about Christy. I had come to believe his character irrepressible. I had thought of him as a force, without sureness of purpose, but, in doing so, I had robbed him of human dimension.

-- This is Happiness, Niall Williams, Chapter 30.

[dailyclassicart]

Max Jensen

[aroace-ryland-grace]

rocky eats shit (colourised)

[aroace-ryland-grace]

grace in the background is very important also. the hop-skip and then the little hand wave of giving up

[ghiblin]

KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE 魔女の宅急便 1989, dir. Hayao Miyazaki

[pagewoman]

Swaledales on packhorse bridge, Ravenseat, Swaledale, North Yorkshire, England

by Amanda Owen