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Dear Zazie,  Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag dedicated to his muse.  Follow us on twitter @cowboycoleridge.  Do y’all feel the love?   Rhett

The Lovers’ Chronicle

Dear Muse,

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storm rollin’ in. copyright 2018 mac tag all rights reserved

watchin’ a storm roll in
clouds spreadin’ out
across the big
High Plains sky

and the light just right
on nature’s grand canvas

that evenin’
the way you looked
as close to splendor
as i have ever seen

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i ask myself
whether the endin’,
which i have foreseen,
might not, after all,
soon break upon me…

suddenly, there you are,
clearly against
the background
of deep shadows
holdin’ your robe
together with one hand

now what
“Take a deep breath
and let it out slowly.”

it has been a long time
“I know, me too.”
how long
“I don’t know.”
me neither
i can hardly remember

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i know this…
what we felt was real
what we had
what we were
what we knew…
yeah, we could feel it
sadly, i know this now…
without you,
i feel nothin’

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Today the song of the day is from an old friend of ours, Bret Mosley (bretmosley.com).  He is a bluesy, soulful, bare foot-stompin’ singer/songwriter.  His original tunes are built to last and his covers, or more accurately his uncovers, are unique.  Here is his original tune; “What You Feel“. #feeltheloveyall

Paul Kane
Self-portrait, circa 1845

Today is the birthday of Paul Kane (Mallow, county Cork September 3, 1810 – February 20, 1871 Toronto); painter, famous for his paintings of First Nations peoples in the Canadian West and other Native Americans in the Oregon Country.  Kane secured the support of the Hudson’s Bay Company, and set out on a voyage from Toronto across the Rocky Mountains to Fort Vancouver and Fort Victoria in the Columbia District, as the Canadians called the Oregon Country.  Kane sketched and painted Aboriginal peoples and documented their lives.  Upon his return to Toronto, he produced more than one hundred oil paintings from these sketches.  Kane’s work, particularly his field sketches, are still a valuable resource for ethnologists.  The oil paintings he completed in his studio are considered a part of the Canadian heritage.

In 1853, Kane married Harriet Clench (1823–1892), the daughter of his former employer at Cobourg.  Reportedly, she was a skilled painter and writer.

Gallery 

An early portrait (ca. 1834–36) attributed to Kane, showing Mrs. Eliza Clarke Cory Clench 

Ojibwa camp at the shores of Georgian Bay; a typical field sketch of Kane’s from his first trip 1845 

Painting by Kane of a Plains Cree warrior and pipe stem carrier. Seen along the North Saskatchewan River, Saskatchewan Canada.

Jasper’s House as painted in a field sketch by Kane in 1846. 

The interior of a ceremonial lodge in the Columbia River region painted by Kane in 1846

Mount St. Helens erupting at night by Kane after his 1847 visit to the area

Kane crossed the Rocky Mountains twice in winter. (Field sketch by Kane, 1846.) 

The fifth Fort Edmonton was constructed on the high ground above the North Saskatchewan River after the fourth fort, which had been located on the river banks, had been flooded several times. 

Kane, c. 1850

 

Two field sketches
Flathead woman and child (Caw Wacham), 1848–53, and the two field sketches Kane combined in this painting, illustrating the artistic liberties he allowed himself when elaborating the sketches into oil canvases.

 

Indian encampment on Lake Huron, 1848–50. Oil painting after the field sketch from 1845 shown above. 

Assiniboine hunting buffalo, 1851–56, an oil painting exemplifying the strong influence of European classic art conventions on Kane’s studio work. 

The Surveyor: Portrait of Captain John Henry Lefroy, ca. 1845, sold at a record price of more than 5 million Canadian dollars in 2002. The painting is sometimes also called Scene in the Northwest.

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