Quote: Michelanglo (a Poem)

My Course of life has attained, 

Through stormy seas, and in a flimsy vessel,  

The common port, at which we land to tell

All conduct's cause and warrant, good or bad, 

So that the passionate fantasy, which made

Of art a monarch for me and an idol,

Was laden down with sin, now I know well..

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni

New Discount Art Book

Today’s thrift store buy. $8.80 CAD. 604 pages. When I go back to the Vatican I want to know more!! Around $100 CAD new.

There is so much beauty and profound humanity in great art. 

The King

The king looks down on his Kingdom from his new favourite sleeping place, under the Gauguin and above my bed!

Dimsum watching me read.

Quotes: Marian Turski

Please give the 2025 documentary "Simon Schama: The Holocaust, 80 Years On" a viewing. It is only 59 minutes long, and has much to teach us.

I met this man Marian Turski there.

 

"It comes step by step. Evil comes step by step. And therefore you shouldn't be indifferent. Let's start with reducing hatred, and trying to understand different people."

 

"Auschwitz did not fall from the sky. It began with small forms of persecution of Jews. It happened, it means it can happen anywhere. That is why human rights and democratic constitutions must be defended. The eleventh commandment is important: Don't be indifferent. Do not be indifferent when you see historical lies, do not be indifferent when any minority is discriminated, do not be indifferent when power violates a social contract."

 

Marian Turski 

 

(Survivor of the Polish ghetto, 2 death marches and Auschwitz concentration camp.)

 

Marian Turski, photographer unknown