and then there were nuns..

"Keep the corners of your mouth turned up. Speak in a low, persuasive tone. Listen; be teachable. Laugh at good stories and learn to tell them...For as long as you are green, you can grow."

-Mother Teresa

(MT could speak fluently in five languages- English, Albanian, Serbo-Croat, Bengali, and Hindi- greatly facilitating her ability to communicate with so many people around the world..)


Exhibit A: "Stillness is a Move"

into the mystic

"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."
-Frank Lloyd Wright

Exhibit A: "Stillness is a Move"

The Nike of Samothrace

Created around 190 BC, Nike of Samothrace, also known as the "Winged Victory of Samothrace" was created both to honor the goddess, Nike, and as a memorial to an epic sea battle.

It is famous for its convincing rendering of a pose in which violent motion and sudden stillness meet, for its graceful balance, and for the impressive attention to detail in Nike's garments, depicted as if rippling in a strong sea breeze.

FIFA world cup trophies have been modeled after this statue and Frank Lloyd Wright has used reproductions of it in several of his buildings.


Exhibit A: Stillness is a Move

"The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience, patience, patience is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach-- waiting for a gift from the sea."

-Anne Morrow Lindbergh (Gift From the Sea)

Exhibit A: "Stillness is a Move"

wave that dog bone

..dogs judge objects first by their movement, then by their brightness, and lastly by their shape..


Exhibit A: "Stillness is a Move"

Death

He's dead
the dog won't have to
sleep on his potatoes
any more to keep them
from freezing

he's dead
the old bastard--
He's a bastard because

there's nothing
legitimate in him any
more
he's dead
He's sick-dead

he's
a godforsaken curio
without
any breath in it

He's nothing at all
he's dead
shrunken up to skin

Put his head on
one chair and his
feet on another and
he'll lie there
like an acrobat--

Love's beaten. He
beat it. That's why
he's insufferable--
because
he's here needing a
shave and making love
an inside howl
of anguish and defeat--

He's come out of the man
and he's let
the man go--
the liar

Dead
his eyes
rolled up out of
the light-- a mockery

which
love cannot touch--

just bury it
and hide its face
for shame.

-william carlos williams

Exhibit A: "Stillness is a Move"

room with a view

"Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him."
-E.M. Forster (author of "Room with a View")


Exhibit A: "Stillness is a Move"