THEN: Mizpah at Chenery, 1972

From a 'San Francisco Remembered' post:



Tony Holiday is in San Francisco, California.

July 9, 2012

Garden in Late April

The new red growth of the photinia is turning green, while the redbud shows off with a delicate pink display.  Meanwhile, hosta begins to grow beneath the maple as its leaves appear.  Irises have found a home this year, and will dominate a little corner above the lamb's ears in years to come. 

Land and Sea

I'll cross land and sea

To follow Thee

Take me on a journey of love

Lead my steps aright

By your light and your life

Fill me with the fire of love

How you came to me

Even only in a dream

Shining light on what

I could not see

I will follow Thee

In discomfort or in ease

I'll cross land and sea

I have heard your call

And set out from my home

Restless and ablaze I will go

When my time has come

And my service is done

Let me circle round where you lay

How you came to me

Even only in a dream

Shining light on what

I could not see

I will follow Thee

In discomfort or in ease

I'll cross land and sea

The Sower

With days fleeting, I'm grateful for having found this painting and verse today.                   

The Sower - Vincent Van Gogh

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.     Galatians 6:7 

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nob hill neo-classical

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Ronaldo Farelli

Moon Transits the Earth

The relative sizes are distorted by the distance of the station point  a million miles away, but it's quite a perspective.

Source: NASA/NOAA

This is a five-hour time lapse of the far side of the Moon, illuminated by the Sun, as it crosses between the DSCOVR spacecraft's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) camera and telescope, and the Earth - one million miles away.

(It) was taken between 3:50 p.m. and 8:45 p.m. EDT showing the moon moving over the Pacific Ocean near North America. The North Pole is in the upper left corner of the image. It is in the original orientation as taken by the spacecraft.  LINK

Paris Talks

October 24th, 1911

"The perfect love needs an unselfish instrument, absolutely freed from fetters of every kind.

The love of family is limited; the tie of blood relationship is not the strongest bond. Frequently members of the same family disagree, and even hate each other.

Patriotic love is finite; the love of one’s country causing hatred of all others, is not perfect love! Compatriots also are not free from quarrels amongst themselves.

The love of race is limited; there is some union here, but that is insufficient. Love must be free from boundaries! To love our own race may mean hatred of all others, and even people of the same race often dislike each other.

Political love also is much bound up with hatred of one party for another; this love is very limited and uncertain.

The love of community of interest in service is likewise fluctuating; frequently competitions arise, which lead to jealousy, and at length hatred replaces love.

A few years ago, Turkey and Italy had a friendly political understanding; now they are at war!

All these ties of love are imperfect. It is clear that limited material ties are insufficient to adequately express the universal love.

The great unselfish love for humanity is bounded by none of these imperfect, semi-selfish bonds; this is the one perfect love, possible to all mankind, and can only be achieved by the power of the Divine Spirit. No worldly power can accomplish the universal love.

Let all be united in this Divine power of love! Let all strive to grow in the light of the Sun of Truth, and reflecting this luminous love on all men, may their hearts become so united that they may dwell evermore in the radiance of the limitless love.

Remember these words which I speak unto you during the short time I am amongst you in Paris. I earnestly exhort you: let not your hearts be fettered by the material things of this world; I charge you not to lie contentedly on the beds of negligence, prisoners of matter, but to arise and free yourselves from its chains!"

Abdu'l-Bahá  Paris Talks

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Pope John Paul at the Golden Gate

A remarkable image of Pope John Paul in 1987.

Jon Wolf's Work

Art by Jon Wolf

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