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The Sierra Rock Garden Society is the Chapter of the North American Rock Garden Society serving Tuolumne and surrounding counties in the Sierra Nevada Foothills of California. Our interests are in promoting the study and cultivation of wildflowers and low-growing perennials that grow well among rocks.
Membership in the Sierra Rock Garden Society is open to any interested local gardeners. We hold monthly meetings. Yearly dues are $10.
For information about membership, contact us.
Where we garden
Traditionally, much of the focus of rock gardeners has been on alpine plants—wildflowers that grow above the treeline on mountainous slopes. Such plants have developed a characteristic form shaped by the severe environments in which they grow. A typical alpine plant hunkers down low to the ground to minimize damage from the mountain winds, intense ultraviolet light, and blanketing snows. They are used to extreme conditions and short growing seasons.
Our gardens here in the foothills provide an environment quite different from that found in the mountains that rise behind us, or from that found in gardens in much of the rest of the country. Our dry summers start early with temperatures of 100 degrees occurring as early as May and continuing until October. We receive no rain at all during these hot months. In large parts of California, the moist air from the coast provides a moderating blanket that damps out climate extremes, provides a cooling effect in summer as well as reducing evaporative losses in plants and substrates. This effect is most noticeable along the coast, but extends inland to areas like Napa and even parts of the Central Valley. None of this moderating influence makes its way to the foothills. We are left high and dry, with not even a vestigial remnant of the marine influence to soften our summers. Winters are not severe, but are certainly not the mild and temperate seasons known in other parts of the state. Depending on the elevation, temperatures may occasionally drop into the teens with snow.
While many classical alpine plants are not happy in our climate, with our long hot summers, we are still able to create beautiful rock gardens that harmonize with the surrounding countryside.
In addition to providing an aesthetic backdrop, the rocks in our gardens create micro-climates beneficial to the cultural needs of many plants. They provide shelter from the severe heat of the mid-day sun, and also slow evaporative moisture losses. Our gardeners are able to successfully grow rock garden plants from the Western U.S., the Mediterranean, Turkey, the Balkans, and many other areas.
If you would like to know more about rock gardening in the foothills, contact us! Come attend a meeting! Our members are generous with information, and with their plants.
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A feeling of sadness and longing,
That is not akin to pain,
And resembles sorrow only
As the mist resembles the rain.
A handful of red sand from the hot clime
Of Arab deserts brought,
Within this glass becomes the spy of Time,
The minister of Thought.
A Lady with a lamp shall stand
In the great history of the land,
A noble type of good,
Heroic womanhood.
A life of honor and of worth
Has no eternity on earth,
Tis but a name
And yet its glory far exceeds
That base and sensual life which leads
To want and shame.
A millstone and the human heart are driven ever round,
If they have nothing else to grind, they must themselves be ground.
A storm-cloud lurid with lightning,
And a cry of lamentation,
Repeated and again repeated,
Deep and loud
As the reverberation
Of cloud answering unto cloud,
Swells and rolls away in the distance,
As if the sheeted
Lightning retreated,
Baffled and thwarted by the winds resistance.
After a day of cloud and wind and rain
Sometimes the setting sun breaks out again,
And, touching all the darksome woods with light,
Smiles on the fields until they laugh and sing,
Then like a ruby from the horizons ring,
Drops down into the night.
Ah yes, the sea is still and deep,
All things within its bosom sleep!
A single step, and all is oer,
A plunge, a bubble, and no more.
Ah, the souls of those that die
Are but sunbeams lifted higher.
Ah! nothing is too late
Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.
Ah! vainest of all things
Is the gratitude of kings.
Ah! what would the world be to us,
If the children were no more?
We should dread the desert behind us
Worse than the dark before.
Alas! to-day I would give everything
To see a friends face, or hear a voice
That had the slightest tone of comfort in it.
All are architects of Fate,
Working in these walls of Time;
Some with massive deeds and great,
Some with ornaments of rhyme.
All is of God. If He but wave His hand,
The mists collect, the rains fall thick and loud;
Till, with a smile of light on sea and land,
Lo! He looks back from the departing cloud.
Angels of life and death alike are His;
Without His leave their pass no threshold oer;
Who, then, would wish or dare, believing this,
Against His messengers to shut the door?
All things are symbols: the external shows
Of Nature have their image in the mind,
As flowers and fruits and falling of the leaves.
All things must change
To something new, to something strange.
All your strength is in your union,
All your danger is in discord.
And as I read
I hear the crowing cock, I hear the note
Of lark and linnet, and from every page
Rise odors of ploughed field or flowery mead.
And fast through the midnight dark and drear,
Through the whistling sleet and snow,
Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept
Towards the reef of Normans Woe.
And in the wreck of noble lives
Something immortal still survives.
And the bright faces of my young companions
Are wrinkled like my own, or are no more.
And the maize-field grew and ripened,
Till it stood in all the splendor
Of its garments green and yellow.
And the night shall be filled with music,
And the cares that infest the day
Shall fold their tents like the Arabs,
And as silently steal away.
And the smith his iron measures hammered to the anvils chime;
Thanking God, whose boundless wisdom makes the flowers of poesy bloom
In the forges dust and cinders, in the tissues of the loom.
And thy deep eyes, amid the gloom,
Shine like jewels in a shroud.
And, as she looked around, she saw how Death, the consoler,
Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever.
Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.
As pleasant songs, at morning sung,
The words that dropped from his sweet tongue
Strengthened our hearts; or, heard at night,
Made all our slumbers soft and light.
As unto the bow the cord is,
So unto the man is woman;
Though she bends him she obeys him
Though she draws him, yet she follows,
Useless each without the other!
Be still, sad heart, and cease repining,
Behind the clouds the sun is shining;
Thy fate is the common fate of all;
Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary.
Be thy sleep
Silent as night is, and as deep.
Beholding the moon rise
Over the pallid sea and the silvery mist of the meadows:
Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,
Blossomd the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.
Bell, thou soundest merrily,
When, the bridal party
To the church doth hie!
Bell, thou soundest solemnly,
When, on Sabbath morning,
Fields deserted lie!
Beloved country! banishd from thy shore,
A stranger in this prison-house of clay,
The exild spirit weeps and sighs for thee!
Heavenward the bright perfections I adore direct.
Build me straight, O worthy Master!
Staunch and strong, a goodly vessel
That shall laugh at all disaster,
And with wave and whirlwind wrestle!
Buried was the bloody hatchet;
Buried was the dreadful war-club;
Buried were all warlike weapons,
And the war-cry was forgotten.
Then was peace among the nations.
But noble souls, through dust and heat,
Rise from disaster and defeat
The stronger.
But thou dost make the very night itself
Brighter than day.
Came the Spring with all its splendor,
All its birds and all its blossoms,
All its flowers, and leaves, and grasses.
Chill airs and wintry winds! my ear
Has grown familiar with your song;
I hear it in the opening year,
I listen, and it cheers me long.
Come back! ye friendships long departed!
That like oerflowing streamlets started,
And now are dwindled, one by one,
To stony channels in the sun!
Come back! ye friends, whose lives are ended,
Come back, with all that light attended,
Which seemed to darken and decay
When ye arose and went away!
Dead he is not, but departedfor the artist never dies.
Death never takes one alone, but two!
Whenever he enters in at a door,
Under roof of gold or roof of thatch,
He always leaves it upon the latch,
And comes again ere the year is oer,
Never one of a household only.
Decide not rashly. The decision made
Can never be recalled. The Gods implore not,
Plead not, solicit not; they only offer
Choice and occasion, which once being passed
Return no more. Dost thou accept the gift?
Do you neer think what wondrous beings these?
Do you neer think who made them, and who taught
The dialect they speak, where melodies
Alone are the interpreters of thought?
Whose household words are songs in many keys,
Sweeter than instrument of man eer caught!
Dont cross the bridge till you come to it,
Is a proverb old, and of excellent wit.
Down sank the great red sun, and in golden, glimmering vapors
Veiled the light of his face, like the Prophet descending from Sinai.
Down to the Plymouth Rock, that had been to their feet as a doorstep
Into a world unknown the corner-stone of a nation!
Even the blackest of them all, the crow,
Renders good service as your man-at-arms,
Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail,
And crying havoc on the slug and snail.
Evening came.
The setting sun stretched his celestial rods of light
Across the level landscape, and, like the Hebrews
In Egypt, smote the rivers, brooks, and ponds,
And they became as blood.
Far off I hear the crowing of the cocks,
And through the opening door that time unlocks
Feel the fresh breathing of To-morrow creep.
Feeling is deep and still; and the word that floats on the surface
Is as the tossing buoy, that betrays where the anchor is hidden.
For age is opportunity no less
Than youth itself, though in another dress,
And as the evening twilight fades away
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
For bells are the voice of the church;
They have tones that touch and search
The hearts of young and old.
For his heart was in his work, and the heart
Giveth grace unto every art.
For I am weary, and am overwrought
With too much toil, with too much care distraught,
And with the iron crown of anguish crowned.
Lay thy soft hand upon my brow and cheek,
O peaceful Sleep!
For voices pursue him by day,
And haunt him by night,
And he listens, and needs must obey,
When the Angel says: Write!
God sent His Singers upon earth
With songs of sadness and of mirth,
That they might touch the hearts of men,
And bring them back to Heaven again.
Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said
Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days
That are no more, and shall no more return.
Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed;
I stay a little longer, as one stays
To cover up the embers that still burn.
Gorgeous flowerets in the sunlight shining,
Blossoms flaunting in the eye of day,
Tremulous leaves, with soft and silver lining,
Buds that open only to decay.
Hail to the King of Bethlehem,
Who weareth in His diadem
The yellow crocus for the gem
Of His authority!
He is dead, the sweet musician!
* * * * *
He has moved a little nearer
To the Master of all music.
He loved the twilight that surrounds
The border-land of old romance;
Where glitter hauberk, helm, and lance,
And banner waves, and trumpet sounds,
And ladies ride with hawk on wrist,
And mighty warriors sweep along,
Magnified by the purple mist,
The dusk of centuries and of song.
Her cap of velvet could not hold
The tresses of her hair of gold,
That flowed and floated like the stream,
And fell in masses down her neck.
Her silver voice
Is the rich music of a summer bird,
Heard in the still night, with its passionate cadence.
How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams
With its illusions, aspirations, dreams!
Book of Beginnings, Story without End,
Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!
How far the gulf-stream of our youth
May flow into the Arctic region of our lives,
Where little else than life itself survives.
How in the turmoil of life can love stand,
Where there is not one heart, and one mouth and one hand.
I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
I heard the trailing garments of the Night
Sweep through her marble halls.
I hope, as no unwelcome guest,
At your warm fireside, when the lamps are lighted,
To have my place reserved among the rest,
Nor stand as one unsought and uninvited!
I like that ancient Saxon phrase which calls
The burial ground, Gods Acre! It is just;
It consecrates each grave within its walls,
And breathes a benison oer the sleeping dust.
* * * * *
Into its furrows shall we all be cast,
In the sure faith, that we shall rise again
At the great harvest, when the archangels blast
Shall winnow, like a fan, the chaff and grain.
I saw the long line of the vacant shore,
The sea-weed and the shells upon the sand,
And the brown rocks left bare on every hand,
As if the ebbing tide would flow no more.
I see the lights of the village
Gleam through the rain and the mist,
And a feeling of sadness comes oer me
That my soul cannot resist;
A feeling of sadness and longing,
That is not akin to pain,
And resembles sorrow only
As the mist resembles the rain.
I see their scattered gravestones gleaming white
Through the pale dusk of the impending night.
Oer all alike the imperial sunset throws
Its golden lilies mingled with the rose;
We give to each a tender thought and pass
Out of the graveyards with their tangled grass.
If thou art worn and hard beset
With sorrows, that thou wouldst forget,
If thou wouldst read a lesson, that will keep
Thy heart from fainting, and thy soul from sleep,
Go to the woods and hills! No tears
Dim the sweet look that Nature wears.
In December ring
Every day the chimes;
Loud the gleemen sing
In the streets their merry rhymes.
Let us by the fire
Ever higher
Sing them till the night expire!
In the elder days of Art,
Builders wrought with greatest care
Each minute and unseen part;
For the gods see everywhere.
It is a dream, sweet child! a waking dream,
A blissful certainty, a vision bright,
Of that rare happiness, which even on earth
Heaven gives to those it loves.
It is Lucifer,
The son of mystery;
And since God suffers him to be,
He, too, is Gods minister,
And labors for some good
By us not understood.
Is it, O man, with such discordant noises,
With such accursed instruments as these,
Thou drownest Natures sweet and kindly voices,
And jarest the celestial harmonies?
It was Autumn, and incessant
Piped the quails from shocks and sheaves,
And, like living coals, the apples
Burned among the withering leaves.
Janus am I; oldest of potentates!
Forward I look and backward and below
I countas god of avenues and gates
The years that through my portals come and go.
I block the roads and drift the fields with snow,
I chase the wild-fowl from the frozen fen;
My frosts congeal the rivers in their flow,
My fires light up the hearths and hearts of men.
Joy, and Temperance, and Repose,
Slam the door on the doctors nose.
Just above yon sandy bar,
As the day grows fainter and dimmer,
Lonely and lovely, a single star
Lights the air with a dusky glimmer.
Kind messages, that pass from land to land;
Kind letters, that betray the hearts deep history,
In which we feel the pressure of a hand,
One touch of fire,and all the rest is mystery!
Leaving us heirs to amplest heritages
Of all the best thoughts of the greatest sages,
And giving tongues unto the silent dead!
Let nothing disturb thee,
Nothing affright thee;
All things are passing;
God never changeth;
Patient endurance
Attaineth to all things;
Who God possesseth
In nothing is wanting;
Alone God sufficeth.
Let one unceasing, earnest prayer
Be, too, for light,for strength to bear
Our portion of the weight of care,
That crushes into dumb despair
One half the human race.
Let us then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate,
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.
Life is real, life is earnest,
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust them art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.
Like two cathedral towers these stately pines
Uplift their fretted summits tipped with cones;
The arch beneath them is not built with stores,
Not Art but Nature traced these lovely lines,
And carved this graceful arabesque of vines;
No organ but the wind here sighs and moans,
No sepulchre conceals a martyrs bones,
No marble bishop on his tomb reclines.
Enter! the pavement, carpeted with leaves,
Gives back a softened echo to thy tread!
Listen! the choir is singing; all the birds,
In leafy galleries beneath the eaves,
Are singing! listen, ere the sound be fled,
And learn there may be worship without words.
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time;
Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing oer lifes solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwreckd brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.
Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
It serves for food and raiment.
Many ghosts, and forms of fright,
Have started from their graves to-night;
They have driven sleep from mine eyes away.
May-flowers blooming around him,
Fragrant, filling the air with a strange and wonderful sweetness.
Merrily, merrily whirled the wheels of the dizzying dances
Under the orchard-trees and down the path to the meadows;
Old folk and young together, and children mingled among them.
Midnight! the outpost of advancing day!
The frontier town and citadel of night!
Morn on the mountain, like a summer bird,
Lifts up her purple wing, and in the vales
The gentle wind, a sweet and passionate wooer,
Kisses the blushing leaf.
My designs and labors
And aspirations are my only friends.
My own thoughts
Are my companions.
Nature is a revelation of God;
Art a revelation of man.
Nature paints not
In oils, but frescoes the great dome of heaven
With sunsets, and the lovely forms of clouds
And flying vapors.
Night after night,
He sat and bleared his eyes with books.
No one is so accursed by fate,
No one so utterly desolate,
But some heart, though unknown,
Responds unto his own.
No tears
Dim the sweet look that Nature wears.
Noble souls, through dust and heat,
Rise from disaster and defeat
The stronger;
And conscious still of the divine
Within them, lie on earth supine
No longer.
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each to-morrow
Finds us farther than to-day.
* * * * *
Trust no Future, howeer pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act, act, in the living Present!
Heart within, and God oerhead!
Not in the clamor of the crowded street,
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng,
But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
Nothing that is can pause or stay;
The moon will wax, the moon will wane,
The mist and cloud will turn to rain,
The rain to mist and cloud again,
To-morrow be to-day.
Now to rivulets from the mountains
Point the rods of fortune-tellers;
Youth perpetual dwells in fountains,
Not in flasks, and casks, and cellars.
O beautiful, awful Summer day,
What hast thou given, what taken away?
Life and death, and love and hate,
Homes made happy or desolate,
Hearts made sad or gay.
O child! O new-born denizen
Of lifes great city! on thy head
The glory of the morn is shed,
Like a celestial benison!
Here at the portal thou dost stand,
And with thy little hand
Thou openest the mysterious gate
Into the futures undiscovered land.
O friend! O best of friends! Thy absence more
Than the impending night darkens the landscape oer.
O holy Night! from thee I learn to bear
What man has borne before!
Thou layest thy finger on the lips of Care,
And they complain no more.
O holy trust! endless sense of rest!
Like the beloved John
To lay his head upon the Saviours breast,
And thus to journey on!
O lost days of delight, that are wasted in doubting and waiting!
O lost hours and days in which we might have been happy!
O lovely eyes of azure,
Clear as the waters of a brook that run
Limpid and laughing in the summer sun!
O peaceful Sleep! until from pain released
I breathe again uninterrupted breath!
Ah, with what subtile meaning did the Greek
Call thee the lesser mystery, at the feast
Whereof the greater mystery is death.
O summer day beside the joyous sea!
O summer day so wonderful and white,
So full of gladness and so full of pain!
Forever and forever shalt thou be
To some the gravestone of a dead delight,
To some the landmark of a new domain.
O thou sculptor, painter, poet,
Take this lesson to thy heart;
That is best which lieth nearest;
Shape from that thy work of art.
O weary hearts! O slumbering eyes!
O drooping souls, whose destinies
Are fraught with fear and pain,
Ye shall be loved again.
O ye dead Poets, who are living still
Immortal in your verse, though life be fled,
And ye, O living Poets, who are dead
Though ye are living, if neglect can kill,
Tell me if in the darkest hours of ill,
With drops of anguish falling fast and red
From the sharp crown of thorns upon your head.
Ye were not glad your errand to fulfill?
O, fear not in a world like this,
And thou shalt know ere long,
Know how sublime a thing it is
To suffer and be strong.
O, though oft oppressed and lonely,
All my fears are laid aside,
If I but remember only
Such as these have lived and died!
Oh, sleep! sweet sleep!
Whatever form thou takest, thou art fair,
Holding unto our lips thy goblet filled
Out of Oblivions well, a healing draught!
Oh, there is something in that voice that reaches
The innermost recesses of my spirit!
Other hope had she none, nor wish in life, but to follow
Meekly, with reverent steps, the sacred feet of her Saviour.
Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee,
Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears,
Our faith triumphant oer our fears,
Are all with thee,are all with thee!
Our lives are rivers gliding free
To that unfathomd, boundless sea,
The silent grave!
Thither all earthly pomp and boast
Roll, to be swallowd up and lost
In one dark wave.
Our pleasures and our discontents,
Are rounds by which we may ascend.
Out of the bosom of the Air,
Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken,
Over the woodlands brown and bare,
Over the harvest-fields forsaken,
Silent, and soft, and slow
Descends the snow.
Patience; accomplish thy labor; accomplish thy work of affection!
Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
Therefore accomplish thy labor of love, till the heart is made godlike,
Purified, strengthened, perfected, and rendered more worthy of heaven.
Perhaps there lives some dreamy boy, untaught
In schools, some graduate of the field or street,
Who shall become a master of the art,
An admiral sailing the high seas of thought
Fearless and first, and steering with his fleet
For lands not yet laid down in any chart.
Safe from temptation, safe from sins pollution,
She lives, whom we call dead.
Sail forth into the sea of life,
O gentle, loving, trusting wife,
And safe from all adversity
Upon the bosom of that sea
Thy comings and thy goings be!
For gentleness and love and trust
Prevail oer angry wave and gust;
And in the wreck of noble lives
Something immortal still survives.
Sail on, O Ship of State!
Sail on, O Union, strong and great.
Saint Augustine! well hast thou said,
That of our vices we can frame
A ladder, if we will but tread
Beneath our feet each deed of shame.
Sang in tones of deep emotion,
Songs of love and songs of longing.
Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature,
That fashions all her works in high relief,
And that is Sculpture. This vast ball, the Earth,
Was moulded out of clay, and baked in fire;
Men, women, and all animals that breathe
Are statues, and not paintings.
Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater
To raise the dead to life than to create
Phantoms that seem to live.
See yonder fire! It is the moon
Slow rising oer the eastern hill.
It glimmers on the forest tips,
And through the dewy foliage drips
In little rivulets of light,
And makes the heart in love with night.
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing,
Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;
So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another,
Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,
Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.
Skilful alike with tongue and pen,
He preached to all men everywhere
The Gospel of the Golden Rule,
The New Commandment given to men,
Thinking the deed, and not the creed,
Would help us in our utmost need.
So many ghosts, and forms of fright,
Have started from their graves to-night,
They have driven sleep from mine eyes away;
I will go down to the chapel and pray.
So Nature deals with us, and takes away
Our playthings one by one, and by the hand
Leads us to rest so gently, that we go,
Scarce knowing if we wish to go or stay,
Being too full of sleep to understand
How far the unknown transcends the what we know.
So when a great man dies,
For years beyond our ken,
The light he leaves behind him lies
Upon the paths of men.
Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon
Like a magician extended his golden wand oer the landscape;
Twinkling vapors arose; and sky and water and forest
Seemed all on fire at the touch, and melted and mingled together.
Something the heart must have to cherish,
Must love, and joy, and sorrow learn;
Something with passion clasp, or perish,
And in itself to ashes burn.
* * * Songs of that high art
Which, as winds do in the pine,
Find an answer in each heart.
Spake full well, in language quaint and olden,
One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine,
When he called the flowers, so blue and golden,
Stars, that in earths firmament do shine.
Standing with reluctant feet,
Where the brook and river meet,
Womanhood and childhood fleet!
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.
Strange to me now are the forms I meet
When I visit the dear old town;
But the native air is pure and sweet,
And the trees that oershadow each well-known street,
As they balance up and down,
Are singing the beautiful song,
Are sighing and whispering still:
A boys will is the winds will,
And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
Such songs have power to quiet
The restless pulse of care,
And come like the benediction
That follows after prayer.
Sweet April! many a thought
Is wedded unto thee, as hearts are wed;
Nor shall they fail, till, to its autumn brought,
Lifes golden fruit is shed.
Sweet is the air with the budding haws, and the valley stretching for miles below
Is white with blossoming cherry-trees, as if just covered with lightest snow.
Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted;
If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning
Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment;
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
That beautiful season
* * * the Summer of All-Saints!
Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape
Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.
That was the first sound in the song of love!
Scarce more than silence is, and yet a sound
Hands of invisible spirits touch the strings
Of that mysterious instrument, the soul,
And play the prelude of our fate. We hear
The voice prophetic, and are not alone.
The air is full of farewells to the dying,
And mournings for the dead.
The bells themselves are the best of preachers,
Their brazen lips are learned teachers,
From their pulpits of stone, in the upper air,
Sounding aloft, without crack or flaw,
Shriller than trumpets under the Law,
Now a sermon and now a prayer.
The counterfeit and counterpart
Of Nature reproduced in art.
The course of my long life hath reached at last,
In fragile bark oer a tempestuous sea,
The common harbor, where must rendered be,
Account of all the actions of the past.
The day is cold, and dark, and dreary,
It rains, and the wind is never weary;
The vine still clings to the mouldering wall,
But at every gust the dead leaves fall,
And the day is dark and dreary.
The day is done, and the darkness
Falls from the wings of Night,
As a feather is wafted downward
From an eagle in his flight.
The day is ending,
The night is descending;
The marsh is frozen,
The river dead.
The emigrants way oer the western desert is markd by
Camp-fires long consumd and bones that bleach in the sunshine.
The flash of his keen black eyes
Forerunning the thunder.
The gentle wind, a sweet and passionate wooer,
Kisses the blushing leaf.
The holiest of all holidays are those
Kept by ourselves in silence and apart;
The secret anniversaries of the heart,
When the full river of feeling overflows;
The happy days unclouded to their close;
The sudden joys that out of darkness start
As flames from ashes; swift desires that dart
Like swallows singing down each wind that blows!
The hooded clouds, like friars,
Tell their beads in drops of rain.
The life of woman is full of woe,
Toiling on and on and on,
With breaking heart, and tearful eyes,
The secret longings that arise,
Which this world never satisfies!
Some more, some less, but of the whole
Not one quite happy, no, not one!
The light upon her face
Shines from the windows of another world.
Saints only have such faces.
The lovely town was white with apple-blooms,
And the great elms oerhead
Dark shadows wove on their ærial looms,
Shot through with golden thread.
The low desire, the base design
That makes anothers virtues less.
The night is calm and cloudless,
And still as still can be,
And the stars come forth to listen
To the music of the sea.
They gather, and gather, and gather,
Until they crowd the sky,
And listen, in breathless silence,
To the solemn litany.
The nightingales among the sheltering boughs
Of populous and many-nested trees
Shall teach me how to woo thee, and shall tell me
By what resistless charms or incantations
They won their mates.
The Nile, forever new and old,
Among the living and the dead,
Its mighty, mystic stream has rolled.
The nimble lie
Is like the second-hand upon a clock;
We see it fly; while the hour-hand of truth
Seems to stand still, and yet it moves unseen,
And wins, at last, for the clock will not strike
Till it has reached the goal.
The pleasant books, that silently among
Our household treasures take familiar places,
And are to us as if a living tongue
Spake from the printed leaves or pictured faces!
The poor too often turn away unheard,
From hearts that shut against them with a sound
That will be heard in heaven.
The rising moon has hid the stars,
Her level rays, like golden bars
Lie on the landscape green,
With shadows brown between,
And silver white the river gleams,
As if Diana, in her dreams,
Had dropt her silver bow
Upon the meadows low.
The song on its mighty pinions
Took every living soul, and lifted it gently to heaven.
The sparrows chirped as if they still were proud
Their race in Holy Writ should mentioned be.
The sun is set; and in his latest beams
Yon little cloud of ashen gray and gold,
Slowly upon the amber air unrolled,
The falling mantle of the Prophet seems.
The sunshine falls, the shadows grow more dreary,
And I am near to fall, infirm and weary.
The surest pledge of a deathless name
Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.
The swallow is come!
The swallow is come!
O, fair are the seasons, and light
Are the days that she brings,
With her dusky wings,
And her bosom snowy white!
The tide rises, the tide falls,
The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;
* * * * *
The little waves, with their soft, white hands,
Efface the footprints in the sands,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
The twilight is sad and cloudy,
The wind blows wild and free,
And like the wings of sea-birds
Flash the white caps of the sea.
The wind is rising; it seizes and shakes
The doors and window-blinds, and makes
Mysterious moanings in the halls;
The convent-chimneys seem almost
The trumpets of some heavenly host,
Setting its watch upon our walls!
Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow,
We will stand by each other, however it blow.
Oppression, and sickness, and sorrow, and pain
Shall be to our true love as links to the chain.
Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom,
A shadow on those features fair and thin;
And softly, from that hushed and darkened room,
Two angels issued, where but one went in.
Then from the neighboring thicket the mocking-bird, wildest of singers,
Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung oer the water,
Shook from his little throat such floods of delirious music,
That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen.
There are two angels that attend unseen
Each one of us, and in great books record
Our good and evil deeds. He who writes down
The good ones, after every action closes
His volume, and ascends with it to God.
The other keeps his dreadful day-book open
Till sunset, that we may repent; which doing,
The record of the action fades away,
And leaves a line of white across the page.
Now if my act be good, as I believe it,
It cannot be recalled. It is already
Sealed up in heaven, as a good deed accomplished.
The rest is yours.
There is a Reaper whose name is Death,
And with his sickle keen,
He reaps the bearded grain at a breath,
And the flowers that grow between.
There is no Death! What seems so is transition;
This life of mortal breath
Is but a suburb of the life elysian,
Whose portal we call death.
There is no flock, however watched and tended,
But one dead lamb is there!
There is no fireside, howsoeer defended,
But has one vacant chair.
There is no light in earth or heaven
But the cold light of stars;
And the first watch of night is given
To the red planet Mars.
Theres a brave fellow! Theres a man of pluck!
A man whos not afraid to say his say,
Though a whole towns against him.
Theres not a ship that sails the ocean,
But every climate, every soil,
Must bring its tribute, great or small,
And help to build the wooden wall!
These faces in the mirrors
Are but the shadows and phantoms of myself.
These grains of gold are not grains of wheat!
These bars of silver thou canst not eat;
These jewels and pearls and precious stones
Cannot cure the aches in thy bones,
Nor keep the feet of death one hour
From climbing the stairways of thy tower.
They, the holy ones and weakly,
Who the cross of suffering bore,
Folded their pale hands so meekly,
Spake with us on earth no more!
They who go
Feel not the pain of parting; it is they
Who stay behind that suffer.
This is the forest primeval.
This is the place. Stand still, my steed,
Let me review the scene,
And summon from the shadowy Past
The forms that once have been.
Thou shalt learn
The wisdom early to discern
True beauty in utility.
Thoughts so sudden, that they seem
The revelations of a dream.
Thousands of toiling hands
Where theirs have ceased from their labours,
Thousands of aching brains
Where theirs are no longer busy.
Thousands of weary feet
Where theirs have completed their journey,
Thousands of throbbing hearts
Where theirs are at rest for ever.
Three Silences there are: the first of speech,
The second of desire, the third of thought.
Thus at the flaming forge of life
Our fortunes must be wrought;
Thus on its sounding anvil shaped
Each burning deed and thought!
Time has laid his hand
Upon my heart, gently, not smiting it,
But as a harper lays his open palm
Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations.
Time rides with the old
At a great pace. As travellers on swift steeds
See the near landscape fly and flow behind them,
While the remoter fields and dim horizons
Go with them, and seem wheeling round to meet them,
So in old age things near us slip away,
And distant things go with us.
Tis the cessation of our breath.
Silent and motionless we lie;
And no one knoweth more than this.
To be left alone
And face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.
To be strong
Is to be happy!
To-morrow! the mysterious, unknown guest,
Who cries to me: Remember Barmecide,
And tremble to be happy with the rest.
And I make answer: I am satisfied;
I dare not ask; I know not what is best;
God hath already said what shall betide.
Trust no future, howeer pleasant;
Let the dead past bury its dead;
Act,act in the living present,
Heart within, and God oerhead!
Twas but a dreamlet it passlet it vanish like so many others!
What I thought was a flower is only a weed, and is worthless.
Under a spreading chestnut tree
The village smithy stands;
The smith a mighty man is he,
With large and sinewy hands;
And the muscles of his brawny arms
Are strong as iron bands.
Very hot and still the air was,
Very smooth the gliding river,
Motionless the sleeping shadows.
We see but dimly through the mists and vapors;
Amid these earthly damps,
What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers
May be heavens distant lamps.
Welcome, my old friend,
Welcome to a foreign fireside.
What shall I say to you? What can I say
Better than silence is?
Whatever hath been written shall remain,
Nor be erased nor written oer again:
The unwritten only still belong to thee:
Take heed, and ponder well what that shall be.
Whatever poet, orator, or sage
May say of it, old age is still old age.
Wheneer a noble deed is wrought,
Wheneer is spoken a noble thought,
Our hearts, in glad surprise,
To higher levels rise.
Where, twisted round the barren oak,
The summer vine in beauty clung,
And summer winds the stillness broke,
The crystal icicle is hung.
Within her heart was his image,
Clothd in the beauty of love and youth, as last she beheld him,
Only more beautiful made by his death-like silence and absence.
Within her tender eye
The heaven of April, with its changing light.
White swan of cities, slumbering in thy nest
So wonderfully built among the reeds
Of the lagoon, that fences thee and feeds,
As sayeth thy old historian and thy guest!
Who dares
To say that he alone has found the truth?
Work is my recreation,
The play of faculty; a delight like that
Which a bird feels in flying, or a fish
In darting through the water,
Nothing more.
World-wide apart, and yet akin,
As showing that the human heart
Beats on forever as of old.
Write on your doors the saying wise and old,
Be bold! be bold! and everywhereBe bold;
Be not too bold! Yet better the excess
Than the defect; better the more than less;
Better like Hector in the field to die,
Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly.
Yea, music is the Prophets art;
Among the gifts that God hath sent,
One of the most magnificent!
Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship
Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!
You know I say,
Just what I think, and nothing more nor less,
And, when I pray, my heart is in my prayer.
I cannot say one thing and mean another:
If I cant pray, I will not make believe!
A boys will is the winds will.
A face that had a story to tell. How different faces are in this particular! Some of them speak not. They are books in which not a line is written, save perhaps a date.
A life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely.
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years study of books.
A tender heart, a will inflexible.
A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
A word that has been said may be unsaid; it is but air. But when a deed is done, it cannot be undone, nor can our thoughts reach out to all the mischiefs that may follow.
Ah, how wonderful is the advent of the spring,the great annual miracle of the blossoming of Aarons rod, repeated on myriads and myriads of branches!
Ah, to build, to build! that is the noblest art of all the arts.
Alas! it is not till time with reckless hand has torn out half the leaves from the book of human life, to light the fires of passion with from day to day, that man begins to see that the leaves which remain are few in number, and to remember faintly at first, and then more clearly, that upon the early pages of that book was written a story of happy influence which he would fain read over again.
All sense of hearing and of sight enfold in the serene delight and quietude of sleep.
All the means of action, the shapeless massesthe materialslie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius!
All was ended now, the hope and the fear and the sorrow, all the aching of heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing, all the dull, deep pain, and constant anguish of patience.
Ambitions cradle oftenest is its grave.
And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships.
And when the echoes had ceased, like a sense of pain was the silence.
Art is Long, and Time is fleeting.
Art is power.
Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.
Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory.
As the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
As the heart is, so is love to the heart. It partakes of its strength or weakness, its health or disease.
As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain.
As unto the bow the string is, so unto the man is woman; though she bends him, she obeys him; though she draws him, yet she follows, useless each without the other.
At my feet the city slumbered.
Authors have a greater right than any copyright, though it is generally unacknowledged or disregarded, They have a right to the readers civility. There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it, and to these the author has a claim. Yet many people think that when they buy a book they buy with it the right to abuse the author.
Authors must not, like Chinese soldiers, expect to win victories by turning somersets in the air.
Ballads are the gypsy children of song, born under green hedgerows, in the leafy lanes and by-paths of literature, in the genial summer-time.
Believe me, every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold when he is only sad.
Beneath me flows the Rhine, and, like the stream of time, it flows amid the ruins of the past. I see myself therein, and know that I am old. Thou, too, shalt be old. Be wise in season. Like the stream of thy life runs the stream beneath us. Down from the distant Alps, out into the wide world, it bursts away, like a youth from the house of his fathers. Broad-breasted and strong, and with earnest endeavors, like manhood, it makes itself a way through these difficult mountain-passes. And at length in old age, it falters, and its steps are weary and slow, and it sinks into the sand, and through its grave passes into the great ocean, which is its eternity.
Books are sepulchres of thought.
Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
Darkness of slumber and death, forever sinking and sinking.
Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of heaven, and Evening stooped down to unloose the latchets of his sandal shoon.
Death brings us again to our friends. They are waiting for us, and we shall not be long. They have gone before us, and are like the angels in heaven. They stand upon the borders of the grave to welcome us with the countenance of affection which they wore on earth,yet more lovely, more radiant, more spiritual.
Defeat may be victory in disguise.
Don Quixote thought he could have made beautiful bird-cages and toothpicks if his brain had not been so full of ideas of chivalry. Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather than its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as the bad heart of Procrustes turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.
Emblems of our own great resurrection, emblems of the bright and better land.
Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm.
Even cities have their graves!
Even He who died for us upon the cross, in the last hour, in the unutterable agony of death, was mindful of His mother, as if to teach us that this holy love should be our last worldly thoughtthe last point of earth from which the soul should take its flight for heaven.
Every dew-drop and rain-drop had a whole heaven within it.
Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite.
Every human heart is human.
Every man has a paradise around him until he sins, and the angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden. And even then there are holy hours, when this angel sleeps, and man comes back, and with the innocent eyes of a child looks into his lost paradise again.
Fair words gladden so many a heart.
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
Fear is the virtue of slaves; but the heart that loveth is willing.
Feet that run on willing errands!
Footprints on the sands of time.
For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one.
From labor there shall come forth rest.
Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us. There lies the Land of Song; there lies the poets native land.
God had sifted three kingdoms to find the wheat for this planting.
Gods illumined promise.
Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God, and secret passages running deep beneath external nature, give their thoughts intercourse with higher intelligences, which strengthens and consoles them, and of which the labourers on the surface do not even dream.
He has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world, and the glories of a modern one.
He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.
He the sweetest of all singers.
He used words as mere stepping-stones, upon which, with a free and youthful bound, his spirit crosses and recrosses the bright and rushing stream of thought.
Her face had a wonderful fascination in it. It was such a calm, quiet face, with the light of a rising soul shining so peacefully through it. At times it wore an expression of seriousness, of sorrow even; and then seemed to make the very air bright with what the Italian poets so beautifully call the lampeggiar dell angelico riso,the lightning of the angelic smile.
His heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
His thoughts are like mummies, embalmed in spices and wrapped about with curious envelopments; but, within, those thoughts themselves are kings.
History casts its shadow far into the land of song.
Home-keeping hearts are happiest.
Hospitality sitting with gladness.
How absolute and omnipotent is the silence of night! And yet the stillness seems almost audible! From all the measureless depths of air around us comes a half-sound, a half-whisper, as if we could hear the crumbling and falling away of earth and all created things, in the great miracle of nature, decay and reproduction, ever beginning, never ending,the gradual lapse and running of the sand in the great hour-glass of Time.
How beautiful it was, falling so silently, all day long, all night long, on the mountains, on the meadows, on the roofs of the living, on the graves of the dead!
How beautiful the silent hour, when morning and evening thus sit together, hand in hand, beneath the starless sky of midnight!
How like they are to human things!
How wonderful is the human voice! It is indeed the organ of the soul! The intellect of man sits enthroned visibly upon his forehead and in his eye; and the heart of man is written upon his countenance. But the soul reveals itself in the voice only, as God revealed himself to the prophet of old, in the still, small voice, and in a voice from the burning bush. The soul of man is audible, not visible. A sound alone betrays the flowing of the eternal fountain, invisible to man!
I dislike an eye that twinkles like a star. Those only are beautiful, which, like the planets, have a steady, lambent lightare luminous, but not sparkling.
I hear the wind among the trees playing celestial symphonies.
I love these rural dancesfrom my heart I love them. This world, at best, is full of care and sorrow; the life of a poor man is so stained with the sweat of his brow, there is so much toil and struggling and anguish and disappointment here below, that I gaze with delight on a scene where all those are laid aside and forgotten, and the heart of the toil-worn peasant seems to throw off its load.
I should think your tongue had broken its chain!
I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding.
If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning.
If spring came but once in a century, instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake, and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change! But now the silent succession suggests nothing but necessity. To most men only the cessation of the miracle would be miraculous, and the perpetual exercise of Gods power seems less wonderful than its withdrawal would be.
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each mans life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
If we love one another, nothing, in truth, can harm us, whatever mischances may happen.
If you once understand an authors character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy.
In character, in manners, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
In the mouths of many men soft words are like roses that soldiers put into the muzzles of their muskets on holidays.
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
It is a very indiscreet and troublesome ambition which cares so much about fame; about what the world says of us; to be always looking in the faces of others for approval; to be always anxious about the effect of what we do or say; to be always shouting, to hear the echoes of our own voices.
It is by the vicars skirts that the devil climbs into the belfry.
It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know it has begun. A thousand heralds proclaim it to the listening air, a thousand messengers betray it to the eye. Tone, act, attitude and look, the signals upon the countenance, the electric telegraph of touchall these betray the yielding citadel before the word itself is uttered, which, like the key surrendered, opens every avenue and gate of entrance, and renders retreat impossible.
It is folly to pretend that one ever wholly recovers from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar. There are faces I can never look upon without emotion, there are names I can never hear spoken without almost starting.
It is the Indian summer. The rising sun blazes through the misty air like a conflagration. A yellowish, smoky haze fills the atmosphere, and a filmy mist lies like a silver lining on the sky. The wind is soft and low. It wafts to us the odor of forest leaves, that hang wilted on the dripping branches, or drop into the stream. Their gorgeous tints are gone, as if the autumnal rains had washed them out. Orange, yellow and scarlet, all are changed to one melancholy russet hue. The birds, too, have taken wing, and have left their roofless dwellings. Not the whistle of a robin, not the twitter of an eavesdropping swallow, not the carol of one sweet, familiar voice. All gone. Only the dismal cawing of a crow, as he sits and curses that the harvest is over; or the chit-chat of an idle squirrel, the noisy denizen of a hollow tree, the mendicant friar of a large parish, the absolute monarch of a dozen acorns.
It seems impossible they should ever grow to be men, and drag the heavy artillery along the dusty road of life.
Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.
Learn to labor and to wait.
Let the dead past bury its dead!
Let us be merciful as well as just.
Let us then be what we are, and speak what we think, and in all things keep ourselves loyal to truth, and the sacred professions of friendship.
Life hath quicksands; life hath snares.
Life is the gift of God, and is divine.
Like a river down the gutter roars the rain, the welcome rain!
Like black hulks the shadows of the great trees ride at anchor on the billowy sea of grass.
Like Dians kiss, unasked, unsought, love gives itself, but is not bought.
Look not mournfully into the past,it comes not back again; wisely improve the present,it is thine; go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear, and with a manly heart.
Look, then, into thine heart and write!
Love gives itself, but is not bought.
Love is a bodily shape; and Christian works are no more than animate faith and love, as flowers are the animate springtide.
Love is ever busy with his shuttle, is ever weaving into lifes dull warp bright, gorgeous flowers, and scenes Arcadian.
Make not thyself the judge of any man.
Man is unjust, but God is just; and finally justice triumphs.
Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor.
Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings,as some savage tribes determine the power of their muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser.
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as the blazing meteor when it descends to the earth is only a stone.
Men should soon make up their minds to be forgotten, and look about them, or within them, for some higher motive in what they do than the approbation of men, which is fame, namely, their duty; that they should be constantly and quietly at work, each in his sphere, regardless of effects, and leaving their fame to take care of itself.
Mercy more becomes a magistrate than the vindictive wrath which men call justice.
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning,an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Music is the universal language of mankind.
Nature alone is permanent.
Nature is a revelation of God.
Nature with folded hands seemed there, kneeling at her evening prayer.
Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others.
No literature is complete until the language in which it is written is dead.
Noble by birth, yet nobler by great deeds.
None but yourself who are your greatest foe.
Nothing is too late till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.
Nothing now is left but a majestic memory.
Nothing with God can be accidental.
O beautiful, awful summer day, what hast thou given, what taken away?
O day of rest! how beautiful, how fair, how welcome to the weary and the old! day of the Lord! and truce of earthly care! day of the Lord, as all our days should be.
O precious evenings! all too swiftly sped!
Oh, how beautiful is love! Even thou that sneerest and laughest in cold indifference or scorn if others are near thee,thou too must acknowledge its truth when thou art alone, and confess that a foolish world is prone to laugh in public at what in private it reveres as one of the highest impulses of our nature; namely, love.
Oh, how short are the days! How soon the night overtakes us!
Oh, what a glory doth this world put on for him who, with a fervent heart, goes forth under the bright and glorious sky!
On her cheek blushes the richness of an autumn sky with ever-shifting beauty.
One-half of the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.
Patience! * * * have faith and thy prayer will be answered!
Patient endurance is Godlike.
People of a lively imagination are generally curious, and always so when a little in love.
Perhaps the greatest lesson which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a single word: Wait!
Prayer is innocences friend; and willingly flieth incessant twixt the earth and the sky, the carrier-pigeon of heaven.
Resolve, and thou art free.
Round about what is lies a whole mysterious world of what might bea psychological romance of possibilities and things that do not happen. By going out a few minutes sooner or later, by stopping to speak with a friend at a corner, by meeting this man or that, or by turning down this street instead of the other, we may let slip some great occasion of good, or avoid some impending evil, by which the whole current of our lives would have been changed. There is no possible solution to the dark enigma but the one word Providence.
Silence and solitude, the souls best friends.
Simplicity is the character of the spring of life, costliness becomes its autumn; but a neatness and purity, like that of the snow-drop or lily of the valley, is the peculiar fascination of beauty, to which it lends enchantment, and gives what amiability is to the mind.
Sit in revery, and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle sea-shore of the mind.
So much to pardon, so much to pity, so much to admire!
Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon, like a magician, extended his golden wand oer the landscape.
Some critics are like chimney-sweepers; they put out the fire below, and frighten the swallows from their nests above; they scrape a long time in the chimney, cover themselves with soot, and bring nothing away but a bag of cinders, and then sing from the top of the house as if they had built it.
Some feelings are quite untranslatable; no language has yet been found for them. They gleam upon us beautifully through the dim twilight of fancy, and yet when we bring them close to us, and hold them up to the light of reason, lose their beauty all at once, as glow worms which gleam with such a spiritual light in the shadows of evening, when brought in where the candles are lighted, are found to be only worms like so many others.
Some must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay!
Sometimes we may learn more from a mans errors than from his virtues.
Speaking words of endearment where words of comfort availed not.
Still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.
Tales that have the rime of age.
That unfathomed, boundless sea, the silent grave!
The air is full of farewells to the dying and mournings for the dead.
The air of summer was sweeter than wine.
The architect built his great heart into those sculptured stones.
The atmosphere breathes rest and comfort, and the many chambers seem full of welcome.
The babbling day has touched the hem of nights garment, and, weary and still, drops asleep in her bosom.
The belfries of all Christendom now roll along the unbroken song of peace on earth, good will to men!
The blossoms of passions, gay and luxuriant flowers, are brighter and fuller of fragrance; but they beguile us and lead us astray, and their odor is deadly.
The day is dark and cold and dreary; it rains, and the wind is never weary.
The day is done, and the darkness falls from the wings of night.
The day is done; and slowly from the scene the stooping sun upgathers his spent shafts, and puts them back into his golden quiver!
The everyday cares and duties, which men call drudgery, are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of time; giving its pendulum a true vibration and its hands a regular motion; and when they cease to hang upon its wheels, the pendulum no longer swings, the hands no longer move, the clock stands still.
The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness,the taste and stain from the lees of the vat.
The glory of Him who hung His masonry pendent on nought, when the world He created.
The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
The greatest grace of a gift, perhaps, is that it anticipates and admits of no return.
The hearts of some women tremble like leaves at every breath of love which reaches them, and they are still again. Others, like the ocean, are moved only by the breath of a storm, and not so easily lulled to rest.
The heaven of poetry and romance still lies around us and within us.
The history of the past is a mere puppet-show. A little man comes out and blows a little trumpet, and goes in again. You look for something new, and lo! another little man comes out, and blows another little trumpet, and goes in again. And it is all over.
The hooded clouds, like friars, tell their beads in drops of rain.
The human voice is the organ of the soul.
The intellect of man sits enthroned visibly upon his forehead and in his eye, and the heart of man is written on his countenance; but the soul reveals itself in the voice only.
The joy of meeting not unmixed with pain.
The language spoken by angels.
The laws of nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have no forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, the air consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would be well for our race if the punishment of crimes against the laws of man were as inevitable as the punishment of crimes against the laws of nature,were man as unerring in his judgments as nature.
The leaves of memory seem to make a mournful rustle in the dark.
The little I have seen of the world teaches me to look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger. When I take the history of one poor heart that has sinned and suffered, and represent to myself the struggles and temptations it has passed through, the brief pulsations of joy, the feverish inquietude of hope and fear, the pressure of want, the desertion of friends, I would fain leave the erring soul of my fellow-man with Him from whose hand it came.
The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.
The mighty hopes that make us men.
The mind of the scholar, if you would have it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds. It is better that his armor should be somewhat bruised by rude encounters, even, than hang forever rusting on the wall.
The motives and purposes of authors are not always so pure and high, as, in the enthusiasm of youth, we sometimes imagine. To many the trumpet of fame is nothing but a tin horn to call them home, like laborers from the field, at dinner-time, and they think themselves lucky to get the dinner.
The natural alone is permanent.
The passing years had drunk a portion of the light from her eyes, and left their traces on her cheeks, as birds that drink at lakes leave their footprints on the margin. But the pleasant smile reminded him of the bygone days.
The pen became a clarion.
The pleasant books, that silently among our household, treasures take familiar places.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
The secret studies of an author are the sunken piers upon which is to rest the bridge of his fame, spanning the dark waters of oblivion. They are out of sight, but without them no superstructure can stand secure.
The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone.
The shadows of the mind are like those of the body. In the morning of life they all lie behind us; at noon we trample them under foot; and in the evening they stretch long, broad, and deepening, before us.
The soul never grows old.
The star of the unconquered will.
The strength of criticism lies only in the weakness of the thing criticised.
The sun stands, at midnight, blood-red, on the mountains of the North.
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without a thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
The thoughts of God in the heavens.
The twilight that surrounds the border-land of old romance.
The world loves a spice of wickedness.
The young may die, but the old must!
Then stars arise, and the night is holy.
There is no death! What seems so is transition.
There is no fireside, howsoeer defended, but has one vacant chair!
There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
There is nothing perfectly secure but poverty.
These stars of earth, these golden flowers.
They who live in history only seemed to walk the earth again.
This country is not priest-ridden, but press-ridden.
This is the field and acre of our God; this is the place where human harvests grow.
This is the forest primeval.
Thou driftest gently down the tides of sleep.
Thou hast betrayed thy secret as a bird betrays her nest, by striving to conceal it.
Thus came the lovely spring, with a rush of blossoms and music, flooding the earth with flowers and the air with melodies vernal.
Tis sweet to stammer one letter of the Eternals language; on earth it is called forgiveness.
Thy voice is a celestial melody.
Time has a doomsday book, upon whose pages he is continually recording illustrious names. But as often as a new name is written there, an old one disappears. Only a few stand in illuminated characters never to be effaced.
Time has laid his hand upon my heart gently, not smiting it; but as a harper lays his open palm upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations.
Time is the Life of the Soul.
To be infatuated with the power of ones own intellect is an accident which seldom happens but to those who are remarkable for the want of intellectual power. Whenever Nature leaves a hole in a persons mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.
To sleepthere is a drowsy mellifluence in the very word that would almost serve to interpret its meaningto shut up the senses and hoodwink the soul; to dismiss the world; to escape from ones self; to be in ignorance of our own existence; to stagnate upon the earth; just breathing out the hours, not living themdoing no mischief, only dreaming of it; neither merry nor melancholy, something between both, and better than either. Best friend of frail humanity, and, like all other friends, it is best estimated in its loss.
To the poetic mind all things are poetical.
To-day, to-morrow, every day, to thousands the end of the world is close at hand. And why should we fear it? We walk here, as it were, in the crypts of life; at times, from the great cathedral above us, we can hear the organ and the chanting choir; we see the light stream through the open door, when some friend goes up before us; and shall we fear to mount the narrow staircase of the grave that leads us out of this uncertain twilight into life eternal?
War is a terrible trade; but in the cause that is righteous sweet is the smell of powder.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
We may build more splendid habitations, fill our rooms with paintings and with sculptures, but we cannot buy with gold the old associations.
We waste our best years in distilling the sweetest flowers of life into potions which, after all, do not immortalize, but only intoxicate.
Weak minds make treaties with the passions they cannot overcome, and try to purchase happiness at the expense of principle; but the resolute will of a strong man scorns such means, and struggles nobly with his foe to achieve great deeds.
Welcome, Disappointment! Thy hand is cold and hard, but it is the hand of a friend. Thy voice is stern and harsh, but it is the voice of a friend. Oh, there is something sublime in calm endurance, something sublime in the resolute, fixed purpose of suffering without complaining, which makes disappointment oftentimes better than success!
Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.
What a glorious thing human life is, * * * and how glorious mans destiny!
What child has a heart to sing in this capricious clime of ours, when spring comes sailing in from the sea, with wet and heavy cloud-sails and the misty pennon of the east-wind nailed to the mast.
What heart has not acknowledged the influence of this hour, the sweet and soothing hour of twilight, the hour of love, the hour of adoration, the hour of rest, when we think of those we love only to regret that we have not loved them more dearly, when we remember our enemies only to forgive them.
What is time? The shadow on the dial, the striking of the clock, the running of the sandday and night, summer and winter, months, years, centuriesthese are but arbitrary and outward signs, the measure of time, not time itself. Time is the life of the soul.
What rapturous flights of sound! what thrilling, pathetic chimes! what wild, joyous revelry of passion! what an expression of agony and woe! All the feelings of suffering and rejoicing humanity sympathized with and finding a voice in those tones.
What seem to us but dim funereal tapers may be heavens distant lamps.
When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
When she passed it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
Where should the scholar live? In solitude, or in society? in the green stillness of the country, where he can hear the heart of Nature beat, or in the dark, gray town where he can hear and feel the throbbing heart of man?
Winter giveth the fields, and the trees so old, their beards of icicles and snow.
With many readers brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable mines of gold under ground.
Wondrous strong are the spells of fiction.
Writ in the climate of heaven, and in the language spoken by angels.
Your supper is like the Hidalgos dinner; very little meat, and a great deal of table-cloth.
Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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Synopsis: A younger and more reluctant Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, sets out on an "unexpected journey" to the Lonely Mountain with a spirited group of Dwarves to reclaim their stolen mountain home from a dragon named Smaug.
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Vicente Fernandez is keeping the faith. Fred Godinez Jr. always had faith he would.
Vicente Fernandez is keeping the faith. Fred Godinez Jr. always had faith he would.
"It was a thing of God," Godinez said.
That would be both Fernandez's ongoing recovery from liver surgery and an unusual scheduling scenario that allows Fernandez to conclude part of his delayed "Gira de Adios" ("Goodbye") tour in Stockton.
Fernandez's sold-out Nov. 17 show at Stockton Arena had to be canceled - along with the rest of his 26-city tour's remaining dates - so the 72-year-old "El Rey" could undergo surgery.
He'll now perform at the Arena on April 13. Tickets go on sale Feb. 2. The original on-sale date had been Friday.
It was changed so it wouldn't conflict with initial ticket sales for Fernandez's April 12 show at Fresno's Selland Arena. They've already sold 11,000 tickets for his final tour finale on April 14 at San Jose's HP Pavilion.
"This is the last time," said Godinez, whose father first brought Fernandez, a revered ranchera singer-songwriter and film actor, to Stockton in the 1970s. "Thank heavens, above all, it was nothing so serious. I always said he would do it if he was able to do it. He's fine. He just needed rest and recreation time."
Fernandez had a benign growth removed from his liver in November at the University of Illinois Hospital in Chicago.
His farewell tour includes son Vicente Fernandez Jr. Though 11,786 tickets were sold for the original Arena date - the venue's first $1 million single-event gate - there might be slightly fewer seats available because Stockton Arena now is configured for Stockton Thunder hockey games.
Fernandez sold out Stockton Arena shows in 2007 (9,300), 2008 (11,600) and 2009 (9,200). This will be his fifth appearance since 2000.
Situations such as this can get complicated in this confusing computer ticket-selling age. There were some inevitable misunderstandings.
All ticket-buyers for the Nov. 17 show received full refunds - except those who opted for expedited overnight or two-day delivery from UPS or FedEx. Those costs (from $12 to $23) couldn't be refunded.
"Some people didn't understand," Godinez said. "Those fees were UPS and FedEx's. Not ours. We refunded 100 percent of all our ticket sales and surcharges."
During the college and professional basketball and hockey seasons, finding three consecutive weekend venues available was an unlikely prospect. An aspect of Godinez's "act of God."
He's certain there'll be a second act: another sellout.
"I'm pretty optimistic," he said. "It's a given. Especially based on the response in San Jose. They were lining up at 10 p.m. the night before."
Obviously, a Fernandez sellout would be beneficial for the Arena in a financial sense.
For the second straight fiscal quarter, Stockton Arena has made it to the top 200 in ticket sales among worldwide venues compiled by Pollstar, a Bakersfield industry publication.
Based on the sale of 86,892 tickets, the Arena was ranked No. 136. That's down from No. 113 in the third quarter of 2012. It equates to No. 78 in the U.S.
Arena managers, obviously, couldn't include the Fernandez totals following the Nov. 17 show's cancellation. Only non-competitive events can be counted.
Graham Hope, a graduate of Stockton's Lincoln High School, is living out his last name right now.
A hopeful Hope, 32, has been nominated for a Grammy Award.
"It's really kind of an honor to have my name in there with so many guys who are kind of legendary," said Hope, a California State University, Chico, graduate.
He's nominated for "best engineered album, non-classical" as part of the seven-man team that worked on pop-rock singer-songwriter Jason Mraz's "Love is a Four Letter Word" recording, which was released in 2012.
The album was recorded at Sunset Sound studios in Hollywood, where Hope has worked for 10 years. He plans to attend the Feb. 10 awards presentation at Los Angeles' Staple Center.
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Although I don't use the app myself, there seems to be a good amount of folks out there who frequent the Cineplex app. With that being said, those looking for it on their BlackBerry 10 smartphone may have been a little upset to find the app was not quite ready as of a few days ago. Now though, if you search for Cineplex in BlackBerry World you'll find it has finally been released and not only is it available, its been created using native tools to ensure it runs great.
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Position: U.S. treasury secretary
Incumbent: Jacob "Jack" Lew
Date of Birth: August 29, 1955
Term: Sworn in as 76th treasury secretary on February 28, 2013, after being approved by the Senate. Serves at the wish of the president.
Key facts:
- Lew served as President Barack Obama's chief of staff before being chosen to replace Timothy Geithner, who left the top Treasury post after serving through Obama's first term. Lew easily won confirmation in the Democratic-controlled U.S. Senate, receiving the support of 20 Republicans. But a few lawmakers were sharply critical of the large bonuses and other perks he received from previous employers Citigroup and New York University. Lew was also grilled about an investment he once had in the Cayman Islands. In his 2008 presidential campaign Obama criticized the practice of using the Cayman Islands as a tax haven.
- Bespectacled and unassuming, Lew spent most of his career in public service as a staffer and manager behind the scenes, preferring to avoid the limelight. Lew has a passion for budgets, and served as budget director under former President Bill Clinton as well as Obama.
- Lew honed his political skills as a policy adviser to Democratic House Speaker Tip O'Neill, who is still touted as a symbol of bipartisanship because he worked with a Republican White House to change the tax code and the Social Security retirement program in the 1980s. As Obama's budget chief, Lew led talks with Congress in 2011 that brought a deal to avert a U.S. debt default, though he antagonized some Republicans with his unwavering defense of government-run benefit programs, including the Medicaid healthcare insurance for the poor and disabled.
- The choice of Lew as the administration's top economic official signals the importance Obama places on ongoing battles in Washington over the U.S. government's budget. Lew's bipartisan credentials could come in handy as he is expected to take the lead in difficult talks with Congress on how to trim the budget and keep a lid on the nation's $16.6 trillion debt. Lew will also have to confront a host of tricky economic topics ranging from how best to scale back the government's role in the housing market to how to respond to China's economic heft. In his first action as treasury chief, Lew presided over a meeting of the Financial Stability Oversight Council, a panel of the country's top banking and market regulators that is charged with preventing another financial collapse.
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The whole deal, as 42 might say, was 43's idea. Looking for a way to showcase the U.S. relief effort after the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami last December, George W. Bush wondered if his two immediate predecessors in the White House might be willing to suit up and hit the road. He asked his chief of staff, "Do you think they'd work together?" The easy, reflex answer would have been no. George Herbert Walker Bush and William Jefferson Clinton came from different generations, from different social classes and from opposing political parties. Their 1992 face-off wasn't exactly tea and sympathy: Bush...
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Using Apps to Bring Sesame's Message of Resilience to Military Families
Lynn Chwatsky is Sesame Workshop's Vice President of Outreach Initiatives and Partners. She has been overseeing the work the Workshop does with military families since 2006.
When we think about the challenges of military life, we sometimes forget the transitions the youngest members of our military families go through. Our service members' young children are faced with a number of uniquely difficult circumstances: repeated relocation, the deployment of a parent, homecomings, injuries, even the death of a parent – to name a few. For years, Sesame Workshop has been providing resources that help both military parents and their children stay resilient during those trying transitions, and now those bilingual (English and Spanish) resources are available on our new, free Military Families mobile application.
The Sesame Street for Military Families app includes videos, articles, storybooks and caregiver guides on how parents and children can communicate and express their emotions about challenging transitions.
Sesame Workshop has long been dedicated to the well-being of military families and their children. We reach out to families wherever they are: online, on mobile devices, even on the road. Our partnership with the USO, which brings The Sesame Street/USO Experience for Military Families to thousands of families around the world, has provided infinite smiles and messages of love and support.
As technology evolves, new ways to help children through challenging transitions have emerged. That's why Sesame Workshop uses online resources like our FamiliesNearAndFar.org website, which provides digital tools for military children, and social media like our Sesame Street for Military Families Facebook page to create an online community for sharing these resources. Our Feel Electric! app for military kids proved that mobile apps could deliver much needed content to help children express themselves during tough transitions. From those successes we knew we needed to provide the grown-ups in these same military families with resources on the device they rely on more and more – that is why we launched the Sesame Street for Military Families mobile app.
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This is an excerpt from The Wrestling Drill Book, 2nd Edition by William Welker.
The success of your scholastic wrestling program will depend largely on how well you prepare practice sessions from day to day. Daily practices must evolve with the needs of the athletes participating in the program. For example, if you are working with young and inexperienced wrestlers, you will need to spend more time on the perfection of fundamental techniques. After that, you can begin to move on to more advanced wrestling skills.
Preseason Daily Practice Sessions
Many state high school associations designate dates when participating schools may begin organized wrestling practices. Because a six-week training period is considered ideal in preparing wrestlers for competitive action, it would be to your advantage to schedule dual meets and tournaments to allow for at least this amount of preseason practice time.
Preseason practices should start with conditioning activities and passive to semiactive drill work. In the first two weeks of practice, emphasis should be on preparing the wrestlers for wrestling.
Following are some examples of conditioning drills for strength, quickness, agility, endurance, flexibility, balance, and mental toughness that can be implemented during preseason practices:
Always remember, if you begin active wrestling before the participants are properly conditioned, you may find yourself facing an abundance of injuries. Moreover, when you do begin all-out wrestling in practice, it would be wise to start with mat (or ground) wrestling and gradually work into active takedown wrestling.
This is also the time of year you will want to work on your wrestlers' fundamental skills, discuss rule changes, and review healthy weight-management practices. Keeping with this philosophy from the beginning of the year will make for a safer and more rewarding season.
In-Season Daily Practice Sessions
The last two weeks of preseason practice should resemble your in-season practice sessions. At this point in the year, you shouldn't teach any new moves; instead, stress the perfection of previously taught maneuvers via drills and active wrestling.
The wrestling workout session is the most important phase of practice for two reasons. First, it allows you the opportunity to observe the wrestlers more thoroughly and correct their weak areas. Second, it is the best conditioning activity for preparing your wrestlers for competitive action.
On days before dual meets or tournaments, practice should be very light so the wrestlers get sufficient rest for their matches. A few conditioning exercises and wrestling drills would be adequate. If the dual meet or tournament begins early the next day, a discussion period and pep talk would suffice.
Of course, those wrestlers with weight-management problems may have to do additional work. This would include endurance activities, such as rope skipping, interval running, or riding the stationary bike to make weight. However, they should be close to match weight the day before competition. They should spend this time thinking about their opponents and wrestling, not thinking about food and making weight. If a wrestler is constantly dwelling on weight problems, you must step in and sternly suggest that he move up a weight class for his own physical and psychological well-being.
At the start of practices that follow a dual meet or tournament, point out mistakes made by individual wrestlers. They may need to work on their bridging skills, in which case you would reteach the half nelson bridging counter with partner drill. Or if they had trouble countering the double-leg takedown, you might revisit the double-leg reaction counter drill.
On the flip side, don't forget to praise those team members who had superior performances.
Read more from The Wrestling Drill Book, 2nd Edition by William Welker.
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Betty McIntosh, 79 - January 09, 2008
Betty McIntosh, 79, of Gothenburg, died on Thursday, Jan. 3, 2008, at Gothenburg Memorial Hospital.
Services were held on Monday, Jan. 7, at Blase-Strauser Memorial Chapel in Gothenburg with the Rev. Larry Viter officiating. Burial took place at the Gothenburg Cemetery.
McIntosh was born on Feb. 12, 1928, to Gust Emil and Alice Irene (Floro) Viter at Gothenburg. She grew up in Gothenburg and attended Gothenburg High School.
She was united in marriage to Alfred DeFruiter. To this union, seven daughters were born—Linda, Cheryl, Donna, Roxie, Sandy, Karen and Lana.
Later in life, she married Russ McIntosh. To this union was born a daughter, Shanna.
McIntosh was a homemaker, an avid reader and enjoyed singing, baking and spoiling her grandchildren, according to family members.
She was preceded in death by: her parents, Gust and Alice; nine brothers and sisters; a grandchild, Markie Rae Devine; a great-grandchild, Aydan Lee DeFruiter.
?Survivors include: her daughters—Linda (Kenny) Gerdes of Cozad, Cheryl (Dale) Knoedler, Donna (Frank) Vandolah, Roxie Ritz (Tim Devine), Sandy (Jim) Sabotka, Karen (Randy) Derra, Lana DeFruiter (Dale), and Shanna (Tim) Keiser; 18 grand children and 22 great-grand children; brothers—Larry, Doug, Paul, Bobby, Junior, Dick and Cliff Viter; a sister, Kay Ensworth.
Memorials are suggested to the Betty R. McIntosh family, 620 10th St., Gothenburg, NE 69138.
Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.blase strauser.com. Arrangements have been placed in the care of Blase-Strauser Memorial Chapel of Gothenburg.
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LSU Football Video Staff
LSU Sports Interactive
2007-08 LSU Football Video Staff
Front Row (L to R): Ryan Mendow, Joel Champagne, Tate Guillotte
Back Row (L to R): Cody Currier, David Trichel, Brad Mendow, Doug Aucoin, Alex Goodwin, Emile Goodwin
Doug Aucoin
Video Coordinator
Doug Aucoin enters his 13th season as LSU's video coordinator. During that time he has developed LSU's football video department into the one of the finest in the nation.
Aucoin, who has twice been named the SEC Video Coordinator of the Year (2000 and 2007) by his peers, oversees LSU's multi-million dollar video department that rivals that of most NFL teams. Following the 2007 season, Aucoin was named a finalist for National Video Coordinator of the Year.
Aucoin, who joined the Tigers in 1997 after a stint with Tulane, is responsible for analytical support of computer and video technologies including the taping of games and practices, opponent video exchange, self-scout and opponent breakdowns, and tape cut-ups used as a teaching tool.
Aucoin also manages the computer network that the football coaches use for statistical analysis as well as self-scouting and the scouting of opponents. Another of Aucoin's responsibilities is the production of a weekly highlight and motivational video for the football team.
Aucoin oversees a staff of eight people, which includes one full-time assistant, one graduate assistant and six student assistants.
Prior to working for Tulane, Aucoin was employed by the New Orleans Saints as an assistant to his brother, Albert, who was video director for the Saints. Their father, Erby, is a member of the Saints Hall of Fame for his pioneering analytical film work in the early years of the National Football League.
A native of New Orleans, Aucoin graduated from Riverdale High School and the University of New Orleans, earning his degree in business administration in 1995. In the summer of 1998, Aucoin married the former Angela Bordelon and the couple has three children, Ryan, Shane and Chanler.
|Brad Mendow
Assistant Video Coordinator
Brad Mendow enters his fifth year as LSU's assistant video coordinator. Prior to his appointment as a full-time employee, the Covington, La., native spent five years as a student worker with the LSU video staff.
Mendow assists videographer director Doug Aucoin with the day-to-day video operations and the maintenance of the coaching staff's computer network for the LSU's football program. He also serves as the SEC's Instant Replay Technician for all of LSU's home football games.
A 2004 LSU graduate with a degree in business administration, Mendow has three older brothers who worked as equipment managers or videographers for the LSU football team, and has a younger brother that currently works for him in the video department.
Student Managers
|David Trichel
West Monroe, La.
West Monroe
Fall 2005
Mass Communications/Advertising
|Ryan Mendow
Covington, La.
Fall 2004
Construction Management
|Joel Champagne
Covington, La.
St. Paul
Fall 2004
Business Administration
|Cody Currier
Amite, La.
Fall 2005
Business Administration, Management
|Tate Guillotte
Coteau, La.
Catholic - New Iberia
Fall 2006
Plant and Soil Science


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Hey guys,
I have searched online all over the place for the image files from the C-A-T Logos back from 2k10-2k14 or so, and can not find them ANYWHERE.
I was planning on using these images in 2K16's Pro-AM as its my old crew logo, BUT I wanted to edit up the logo a bit and make it our own.
So my request is if someone could possible extract or just somehow give me the image file of the old Create-A-Team logo that is a grizzly bear looking one. It would mean a lot to me and my crew!
You can upload it to Imgur or wherever you need. If you need my email, let me know!
Thank you,