Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag. What do you do when you are in a daze? Who do you think of? Rhett
The Lovers’ Chronicle
Dear Muse,
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leave the ordinary
abandon, ready
to believe, an intricate
ballet hummin’ with life
inside rapt together
nestled against what comes
we make such abundance
feel the flesh churn the fire inside us,
pushin’ forward toward its ragged edge,
rushin’ like a swollen river into multitude
there is a purpose,
there is enough of us
to see it, we can, from a distance,
hear the thrum, we are gorgeous
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these days
cool mornin’s
just right evenin’s
verse comin’
followin’ the vision
these days
this daze
when writin’
and wonderin’
imaginin’,
creatin’
this
these days
lightin’ flashin’
thunder boomin’
rain pourin’
hail poundin’
days lingerin’
and lengthenin’
time spent longin’
for you
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One from the archives, originally written in April 2011. Forever lovin’ you in……
This Daze
I love these days
The cool mornin’s
Just right evenin’s
New beginnin’s
New poems comin’
Flowers buddin’
Dogwoods bloomin’
I love these days
I love this daze
My mind is in
When I’m writin’
And wonderin’
Imaginin’
And creatin’
Contemplatin’
I love this daze
I love these days
Lightin flashin’
Thunder boomin’
The rain pourin’
Days lingerin’
And lengthenin’
Time spent longin’
I love these days
I love this daze
This day dreamin’
Of her, wishin’
For romancin’
For belongin’
For love lastin’
Everlastin’
I love this daze
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The Song of the Day is “Forever in a Daze“ by Flying Colors. We do not own the rights to this song. All rights reserved by the rightful owner. No copyright infringement intended.
On this day in 1786 – In Vienna, Austria, Mozart’s opera The Marriage of Figaro is performed for the first time.
The Marriage of Figaro (Italian: Le nozze di Figaro), K. 492, is an opera buffa (comic opera) in four acts composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna. The opera’s libretto is based on a stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro (“The Mad Day, or The Marriage of Figaro”), which was first performed in 1784. It tells how the servants Figaro and Susanna succeed in getting married, foiling the efforts of their philandering employer Count Almaviva to seduce Susanna and teaching him a lesson in fidelity.
The opera is a cornerstone of the repertoire and appears consistently among the top ten in the Opera base list of most frequently performed operas.
Today is the birthday of George Inness (Newburgh, New York May 1, 1825 – August 3, 1894 Bridge of Allan, Scotland); landscape painter and georgist activist.
Inness, 1890
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The sisters
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Milton, New York, charcoal, white wash, and gouache over graphite on grey paper, ca. 1856. Yale University Art Gallery
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Lake Nemi, oil on canvas, 1857. Yale University Art Gallery
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In the Adirondacks, oil on canvas, circa 1862. Yale University Art Gallery
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The Valley of the Olives, oil on canvas, 1867. The Walters Art Museum
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In the Roman Campagna, oil on canvas, 1873, Saint Louis Art Museum
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Étretat, oil on canvas, 1875. Wadsworth Atheneum
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The Rainbow, oil on canvas ca. 1878,Indianapolis Museum of Art
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Two Sisters in the Garden, oil on millboard, 1882. Art Institute of Chicago
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Old Elm at Medfieldoil painting
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Moonrise, oil on canvas, 1887. Yale University Art Gallery
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Sunset on the Passaic, oil on canvas, 1891,Honolulu Museum of Art
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Edge of the Forest, oil on canvas, 1891. Yale University Art Gallery
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Early Morning, Tarpon Springs oil painting, 1892
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The Home of the Heron, 1893
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Summer Landscape, 1894
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Pool in the Woods, oil painting
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June, Brooklyn Museum
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Sunrise, Brooklyn Museum
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On the Delaware River,Brooklyn Museum
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Sunset over the Sea,Brooklyn Museum
Today is the birthday of Jules Breton (Jules Adolphe Aime Louis Breton, Courrieres 1 May 1827 – 5 July 1906 Paris); Realist painter. His paintings are heavily influenced by the French countryside. His absorption of traditional methods of painting helped make Breton one of the primary transmitters of the beauty and idyllic vision of rural existence.
Jules Breton
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The Song of the Lark, oil on canvas, 1884
La Glaneuse lasse (1880), Cleveland Museum of Art
“Breton Peasant Woman Holding a Taper”
Today is the birthday of Cecilia Beaux (Philadelphia May 1, 1855 – September 7, 1942 Gloucester, Mass.); society portraitist. She received her training in Philadelphia and France. Her sympathetic renderings of the American ruling class made her one of the most successful portrait painters of her era.
Beaux ca. 1888
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Self portrait 1880-85. oil on canvas, 18x14in. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
2013, after renovation of facade (originally created in 1926)
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Folies Bergère
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Established on this day in 1869, the house was at the height of its fame and popularity from the 1890s’ Belle Époque through the 1920s. The institution is still in business, and is still a strong symbol of French and Parisian life.
Located at 32 rue Richer in the 9th Arrondissement, the Folies Bergère was built as an opera house by the architect Plumeret.
It opened as the Folies Trévise, with light entertainment including operettas, opéra comique (comic opera), popular songs, and gymnastics. It became the Folies Bergère on 13 September 1872, named after a nearby street, rue Bergère (“bergère” means “shepherdess”)
In 1882, Édouard Manet painted his well-known painting A Bar at the Folies-Bergère which depicts a bar-girl, one of the demimondaines, standing before a mirror.
In 1886, Édouard Marchand conceived a new genre of entertainment for the Folies Bergère: the music-hall revue. Women would be the heart of Marchand’s concept for the Folies. In the early 1890s, the American dancer Loie Fuller starred at the Folies Bergère.
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