Jeff Guess

Easter 2018 ©Jeff Guess 2018

Carpe Diem Look to this day... In it lies all the realities and verities of existence, the bliss of growth, the splendour of action, the glory of power. For yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision. But today, well-lived, makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Sanscrit Proverb ©Jeff Guess 2018

Easter 2018 Easter Sunday Under the great blue bell of morning sky old Rex is out early again pushing his ancient red tractor rattling out of dawn and towing the day ploughing up a green hill painting it brown somewhere on the Baptist church a dull clapper for the town but here hundreds of mottled pigeons fall in behind the song and scansion of his shears. Jeff Guess Good Friday After all the stories the rusted on concretions of two embellished centuries: there was a death, c

Thought Of The Day So if you desire to know and see your soul as it is, do not look for it within your body as though it were hidden in your heart in the same way that the heart is hidden within the body. If you look for it in this way you will never find it. The more you search for it as a material object, the farther you are from it, for your soul is not tangible, but a living and invisible spirit. Walter Hilton (d 1395) English monk ©Jeff Guess 2018

In a mother’s womb were two babies. One asked the other: “Do you believe in life after delivery?”The other replied, “Why, of course. There has to be something after delivery. Maybe we are here to prepare ourselves for what we will be later.” “Nonsense” said the first. “There is no life after delivery. What kind of life would that be?” The second said, “I don’t know, but there will be more light than here. Maybe we will walk with our legs and eat from our mouths. Maybe we will

chiaroscuro noun: 1. the treatment of light and shade in drawing and pai 2. an effect of contrasted light and shadow "the chiaroscuro of cobbled streets" Origin mid 17th century: from Italian, from chiaro ‘clear, bright’ (from Latin clarus ) + oscuro ‘dark, obscure’ (from Latin obscurus ). River Murray Miscellany An iron windmill grown out of willows creaks and bangs in the scorching northerly: pulls the orange river up clay baked cliffs. Tastes of green weed and salt. On the

Adelaide Railway Station - South Australia ©Jeff Guess 2018

He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. William Butler Yeats ©Jeff Guess 2018

I heard a joke I consider to be one of the very best on ABC RN this morning. It was one of my father's favourites who was a prize winning golfer. 'If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.' Lee Trevino (Retired American professional golfer regarded as one of the greatest players in professional golf history.) ©Jeff Guess 2018

There is not one judgment day, surely, but a thousand! Every time we confront beauty, truth, goodness or love, our response to them judges us. The matter is summarized in the delightful story of a visitor to a famous art gallery containing only pictures of established and famous greatness. Said the visitor to an attendant, "I don't think much of the pictures." Said the attendant, very courteously, "Excuse me, sir, the pictures are not on trial!" Dr. Leslie Weatherhead ©Jeff G