The Hammock Papers

To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them. He is proud of a common her...

An excellent album ...

Chappel, Samuel Adams , 1887 Is it not High Time for the People of this Country explicitly to declare, whether they will be Freemen or Slave...

There is a tendency of people in universities to think that what’s going on in the university is what really matters and that was the case o...

When people ask me are you happy, I'd say that isn't quite the question. The real question is am I still growing? Have I become a fi...

What if man had eyes to see the true beauty—the divine beauty, I mean, pure and clear and unalloyed, not clogged with the pollutions of mort...

I never got a grip on penmanship Could never make the small L's flow Seldom found the trick to arith-a-metic Three plus two be faux, pas...

Darren McCarty was born on this day in 1972. The game-winner in Game Four of the '97 Stanley Cup Final ...

RUSH released 2112 on this day in 1976. "Overture/The Temples of Syrinx"...

Locally-sourced ice.

Allen & Co., John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron of Acton , 1902 There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of...

Lang Lang ...

Abbey, Study for Design of The Hours , 1937 The great trouble with the vast majority of artists is that they cease to be students too soon. ...

van Gogh, Landscape at Auvers in the Rain , 1890 APRIL SHOWERS Delightful weather for all sorts of moods & most for him – grey morn and ...

 Böcklin, Spring Evening , 1879 And now that the year wearily turns and stretches herself before the perfect waking, the god emboldened begi...

The Smiths released Louder Than Bombs on this day in 1987. "Panic"...

Hayoung Choi performs with the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie, under the direction of Vahan Mardirossian ...

An excellent album ...

Angus Young was born on this day in 1955. "Riff Raff" (it's in high definition so you won't miss any nuance)...

I have thoughts that are fed by the sun: The things which I see Are welcome to me, Welcome every one – I do not wish to lie Dead, dead, Dead...

Execupundit has an update on renderings of the presidential phallus, I mean palace, sorry ... "library."

Friedrich, Seashore in the Fog , 1807 Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and fri...

Hoppner, Franz Joseph Haydn , 1791 Young people can learn from my example that something can come from nothing. What I have become is the re...

Weenix, Portrait of René Descartes , 1649 I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto, "To live wel...

The Westerner has been able move forward in ordered steps, while we have met superior civilization and have had to surrender to it, and we h...

Rush, "Vital Signs"...

van Gogh, Self-Portrait with Dark Felt Hat at the Easel , 1886 I, for one, am a man of passions, capable of and liable to do rather foolish ...

The TABLES TURNED Up! up! my Friend, and quit your books; Or surely you'll grow double: Up! up! my Friend, and clear your looks; Why all...

Astrud Gilberto was born on this day in 1940. "Take Me to Aruanda"...

Hamilton of Finnart, Stirling Castle , 1496 On the following morning, the sun darted his beams from over the hills through the low lattice w...

 Lively Run Goat Dairy, Finger Lakes Gold Reserve  Food & Wine has 25 essential American cheeses ...

Delacroix, A Vase of Flowers , 1833 We are nothing but links in a chain.   Old Gauguin and I understand each other basically, and if we are ...

Behold the palms of humility, which God has exalted. Behold Jesus in His crown— He who, from the highest throne of joy, willingly stepped do...

The Van Gogh Museum explores Vincent's palette ... For Vincent, an understanding of colour theory was essential in painting. He also rea...

van Gogh, Undergrowth with Two Figures , 1890 Do go on doing a lot of walking and keep up your love of nature, for that is the right way to ...

Led Zeppelin released Houses of the Holy on this day in 1973. "Over the Hills and Far Away"...

ON A MARCH DAY Here in the teeth of this triumphant wind That shakes the naked shadows on the ground, Making a key-board of the earth to str...

van Gogh, Boats at Sea, Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer , 1888 He who hoists the Ambition & Co. sail and no other on his mast, sails through li...

Illman & Sons, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft , 1884 The BIRCHEN CANOE In the region of lakes where the blue waters sleep My beautiful fabric wa...

WHAT I DO IS ME —FOR THAT I CAME for Gerard Manley Hopkins What I do is me—for that I came. What I do is me! For that I came into the world!...

Mr. and Mrs Ozaki perform ...

Excellent albums ...

An organism native to Gubbeen Farm which flourishes on the rind of Gubbeen cheese, was identified by microbiologists in 2001 and named micr...

People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them. They don’t take long looks at anything...