Et Perducant Te In Civitatem Sanctam Jerusalem

Montreal Symphony & Choir (2009)

- Requiem, Op. 48
in paradisum
(Fauré)

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Yet Is Your Heart the Spring of All Love's Light

Love in October
John Drinkwater
1919

The fields, the clouds, the farms and farming gear,
The drifting kine, the scarlet apple trees ...
Not of the sun but separate are these,
And individual joys, and very dear;
Yet when the sun is folded, they are here
No more, the drifting skies: the argosies
Of wagoned apples: still societies
Of elms: red cattle on the stubbled year.

So are you not love’s whole estate. I owe
In many hearts more dues than I shall pay;
Yet is your heart the spring of all love’s light,
And should your love weary of me and go
With all its thriving beams out of my day,
These many loves would founder in that night.

2017 Custom Walls - iPhones 6 to 8 Variants

These wallpapers are created on the iPhone 6s in portrait mode. By using the Apple iOS logical resolutions associated for the iPhone 6 to 8 variants, the wallpapers fit the iPhone screen sizes as intended.

Each wallpaper can be pinched in-or-out, move-and-scale (i.e. height and width) to suit the user's display preference. As always with prospective wallpapers, the user should test the selected image to ensure it is acceptable prior to saving it. Otherwise, hit the cancel button during the wallpaper selection setup.

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2017 Autumn Wallpapers
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For Autumn Is Monarch Now

Summer Is Dead
John Reade, 1870

I.
Summer is dead. Shall we weep or laugh,
As we gaze on the dead queen’s epitaph
Which Autumn has written in letters of gold:
“She was bright and beautiful, blithe and young,
And through grove and meadow she gaily sung,
As with careless footsteps she danced along
To the grave, where she now lies cold?”

II.
Shall we weep that her beauty from earth has gone?
Shall we weep for the friends that with her have flown?
Shall we weep for those that with her have died?
For the man that has perished in manhood’s pride?
For the maiden that never can be a bride?
For the hearts that are left alone?

III.
Shall we laugh as we stand at earth’s palace-door,
With the faded crown that poor Summer wore,
And placing it on her sister’s brow,
Forget the face that once smiled beneath
That faded crown, and the flowery breath
That parted those lips now cold in death?
For Autumn is monarch now.

IV.
Summer is dead. Shall we laugh or weep?
Is she really dead or only asleep
With her sleeping garments on?
She only sleeps, and in meadow and grove
Again in gay dances her steps shall move;
But shall she come back with the friends we love?
God knows, and His will be done.

First Day of Autumn, 2017 - Northern Hemisphere

Lat: 37.7° N
@1023 Hours PDT
Current Conditions: 61°F/16°C, Sunny
Humidity: 57%
Dew Point 21°F/-6°C
Wind: 0.0 mph

Astronomy:

September  22, 2017        Rise:        Set:
Actual Time            6:53 AM PDT  7:02 PM PDT
Civil Twilight         6:27 AM PDT  7:28 PM PDT
Nautical Twilight      5:56 AM PDT  7:59 PM PDT
Astronomical Twilight  5:25 AM PDT  8:30 PM PDT
Moon (9/22)            9:15 AM PDT  8:46 PM PDT

Waxing Crescent, 7% of the moon is illuminated

Length of Visible Light 13h 01m
Length of Day 12h 09m
Tomorrow will be 2m 24s shorter

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In This Dream August Air

August
(excerpt)
W. Wilfred Campbell
1899

In this dream August air, whose ripened leaf,
Pausing before it puts death’s glories on,
Deepens its green, and the half-garnered sheaf
Gladdens the haze-filled sunlight, love hath gone
Beyond the material, trembling like a star,
To those sure heights where all thought’s glories are.

And Thought, that is the greatness of this earth,
And man’s most inmost being, soars and soars,
Beyond the eye’s horizon’s outmost girth,
Garners all beauty, on all mystery pores:
Like some ethereal fountain in its flow,
Finds heavens where the senses may not go.


Living Jazz (1967)
- "Summer Samba"
(Valle)

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O Tenderly the Haughty Day

July

"O tenderly the haughty day
Fills his blue urn with fire;
One morn is in the mighty heaven,
And one in our desire."
—Emerson

Tab 1 Feature:

21 July 2017
On This Summer Day

Denis Solee, tenor sax (2005)
"Summer Wind" 4:51
(Henry Mayer)

~*~

Tab 2 Feature:

21 July 2017
On This Summer Day

Stephen Hough, classical piano (1999)
"Weep You No More" 1:53
(Roger Quilter)



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Dorothy Fields Birthday Anniversary

Tab 1 Feature:

15 July 2017
A birthday anniversary

Dorothy Fields
Oscar winning American lyricist
(15 July 1905 - 28 March 1974)

Janet Seidel, vocal jazz (2009)
"The Way You Look Tonight" 5:21
(Kern and Fields)

~*~

Tab 2 Feature:

15 July 2017
A birthday anniversary

Dorothy Fields
Oscar winning American lyricist
(15 July 1905 - 28 March 1974)

Cheryl Bentyne, vocal jazz (2005)
"I Won't Dance" 3:56
(Kern and Fields)


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A Travel Journey Entry, 14 June 2017

Day 07.3 - Cherokee
14 June 2017

We are blessed over the last dozen years with many a summer travel mainly to different regions of North America. Much of our travels were curtailed by time and subsequent venues. Invariably in the course of every vacation, we were overwhelmed by the four Ws (who, what, when, and why) at the places visited. Nevertheless, in our mostly "see America first" journeys, we've learned and gleaned from the tapestry of our country's makeup. Scenery and landscape were always present in places we visited, though in varying proportions.

The pastoral beauty of the hazy Appalachian hills, interlaced with waterfalls and rivers, and further accented by congregations of fauna and flora. It is a region of unsurpassed beauty. And yet, all were merely scenic props. They awaited man's intrusion or discovery to give the region permanence and purpose; to give it a fuller and magnified landscape later preserved for posterity now known as the Blue Ridges and Smoky Mountains.

The Cumberland Gap and its environs were once serene and undisturbed wilderness, saved as a trace for the woodland buffaloes. Since it became a designated path blazed by Daniel Boone, as noted by Turner on the 12 June journal entry of "Cumberland Gap", "...the procession of civilization marching single file...the Indian...the pioneer farmer - and the frontier has passed by." Man has left a historic imprint on the Gap since the 1750s. Today, it still serves as a transit point westward. A century later at a place called Gettysburg, a stretch of farmland now preserved as a "hollow" and "consecrated" ground. As a timeless memorial imprinted on this field of blood, President Lincoln dedication this parcel of land to all the "brave men, living and dead." The scenery indigenous to both landmarks had served to establish, fortify, settle, and stir one's imagination to the historic importance, respectively, of these two landscape examples.

Cheorkee, NC, is a small foothill town at the southern edge of the Great Smoky Mountain NP. Located within a designated federal trust, the town also serves as the headquarter of the tribal community. When we arrived at Cherokee this morning, a rather dark chapter of our republic's history peeled back and opened to us. Surely, in the palimpsest of our nation's history, the Cherokee landscape had been paved with tears, toils, tragedies, as well as triumphs.