HAPPY EASTER! CHRIST IS RISEN! – ΚΑΛΟ ΠΑΣΧΑ! ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ ΑΝΕΣΤΗ! The icon of the Anastasis – the Descent of Christ into Hell and His Resurrecti...

“A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.” - Henry Giles Johann Sebastian Bach is one of my favourite composers and his music is as c...

“We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.” - Madame de Staël A solemn day today on many counts. O...

“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.” - Lewis B. Smedes This week is Holy Week for the Orthodox pe...

“In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.” – Marcel Proust A poem written many years ago whe...

“The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer Today is Earth Day, and it...

“Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.” - Gian Carlo Menotti We watched an opera on DVD ye...

“The position of the artist if humble. He is essentially a channel.” - Piet Mondrian Piet Mondrian
 (1872-1944) was a Dutch neoplasticist p...

“Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.” - M. Scott Peck Hello from Brisbane. I am here for work for the last couple of days and...

“The point is that you can't be too greedy.” – Donald Trump A snippet of an article written by Rebecca Urban, and appearing in this morn...

“What shall become of us without any barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.” - Constantine Cavafy The field daisy , Bellis perenn...

"The avarice of mankind is insatiable." - Aristotle This poem occurred to me after watching a documentary on tomb robbers in Ancie...

“Since when was genius found respectable?” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning The crocus, Crocus aureus , is the birthday flower for this day and ...

“I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains” - Anne Frank Last Saturday we watched Olivier Dahan’s 2007 f...

“Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.” – Sallust Paul Klee. “Hermitage”. 1918. Watercolor on chalk ground. ...

“He who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once.” - Robert Browning Yesterday on the train, commuting to work I was struck by a youn...

“The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.” - Mar...

“To keep the body in good health is a duty...otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.” - Buddha The plant for this ...

“Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.” - Heraclitus of Ephesus The Ying and the Yang conspire within yet aga...

“Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.” - George Eliot The human being is cons...