Samuele Di Blasi   Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.   – Ralph Waldo Emerson      "The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore" (Oscar winner for best animated short 2012) Written by William Joyce Directed by William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad3CMri3hOs Thank you for coming along on my Filling the Well journey for National Poetry Month. I've appreciated the company, as well as all the comments, emails, and poems these posts inspired! I ..read more

  Simon Marussi   Remember the tree is older than you are and you might find stories  in its branches.   – Jennifer Clement, from "Lemon Tree"   Today is Poem in Your Pocket Day. Since it is Arbor Day as well, I've chosen "Lemon Tree" as my #PocketPoem. You can find it in its entirety HERE.   The Arbor Day Foundation is celebrating 50 years of planting and distributing nearly 500 million trees to more than 50 countries around the world.     The Heart of the Tree              &nbs ..read more

  Easter Island, photo by Andrea Vera Sasso    Energy rightly applied and directed will accomplish anything. – Nellie Bly     "Puffer Fish Constructs a Masterpiece of Love"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQr8xDk_UaY      "Danny MacAskill: The Ridge"   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ_IQS3VKjA     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 ..read more

  "By The Sea" by Paul Smith   Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.   – Rumi     Paul Smith, Typewriter Artist (1921-2007) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svzPm8lT36o    View more of Paul Smith's work at his Facebook page or on YouTube.   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, X ..read more

  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 ..read more

  "Sunflowers" by Georges Lemmen (1895) at The Art Institute of Chicago    If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.    – Romain Rolland     NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory: Year 5   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSVv40M2aks     The Jive Aces "Bring Me Sunshine" from King of the Swingers   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXvJ8UquYoo       April 1: Michelle H. Barnes and Cosmo Sheldrake April 2: Hans Christian Andersen April 3: Guy Finley, Ann ..read more

  "The Contemplator" (1901)          Eugène Carrière   What makes night within us may leave stars. –Victor Hugo According to the Cleveland Museum of Art website, "in this painting Carrière captures the atmosphere of Victor Hugo's poems through his expressive brushstrokes and monochromatic palette." 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 ..read more

  "Dissociation" by Layne.   This above all: to thine own self be true.   – William Shakespeare, from Hamlet     "The Reflection in ME" Written by Marc Colagiovanni, Art by Peter H. Reynolds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9OOXCu5XMg       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 Ta ..read more

  Joshua Mayer   Amherst College Digital Collections   To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.   – Emily Dickinson     Read Emily Dickinson's advice on prairie restoration at WingraSprings.      "The Beauty of Pollination"  Moving Art by Louie Schwartzberg   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQiszdkOwuU     Meet the artist who is painting 50,000 bees to raise awareness of their plight HERE.       April 1 ..read more

  cocoparisienne But remember this, Japanese boy, airplanes are not tools for war. They are not for making money. Airplanes are beautiful dreams. Engineers turn dreams into reality.   – Hayao Miyazaki, from The Wind Rises       Huang Yi and KUKA  A human-robot dance duet   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-sK-s_TzN0   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 Pilobo ..read more