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Photo shared by Heather Cox Richardson from Letters from an American

Alongside the river
of love and desire,
my heart is strong,
my soul is a pyre.

I love others,
as I want to do,
for there is no one
as lovely as you.

Photo credit: Jaime Reimer

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Asher Brown Durand (1796 -1886) was an American Engraver and painter of the Hudson River School. His reputation as one of the country's finest engravers was established with his 1823 engraving of John Trumbull's "Declaration of Independence". His bank notes engravings were used as the portraits for America's first postage stamps. His main interest changed to oil painting about 1830 concentrating on landscape painting.
He spent summers sketching in the Catskills, Adirondacks, and the White Mountains of New Hampshire, making hundreds of drawings and oil sketches that were later incorporated into finished academy pieces which helped to define the Hudson River School. He was an advocate for drawing directly from nature with as much realism as possible. Durand wrote, "Let [the artist] scrupulously accept whatever [nature] presents him until he shall, in a degree, have become intimate with her infinity... never let him profane her sacredness by a willful departure from truth."
Biographical source: Wikipedia

Demented the soul,
before it began.
Demented the soul,
the aged man.

Cure all your ills,
before it began.
If you are guilty,
it's good you ran.

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Across the far horizon,
across the vast sea,
I'll search the World over
until I find my love, thee.

A full circle of love,
has appeared in my mind.
Wondering now, about
a circle of love, this kind.

Jan 1, 2023 - #sunset