Granville Austin – The Thinkerer

Infernal Earth

On loneliness and separation from the wider world…

Still Life with Potatoes - Vincent van Gogh (Painted between 1886-87) — Young Man at His Window – Gustave Caillebotte (Painted in 1876)

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
Joseph Brodsky, Russian-American Poet and Nobel Laureate in Literature (1987)

Life’s Bowl

On Life’s bittersweet nature…

Life is like a box of chocolates… you never know what you’re gonna get.
Tom Hanks, From the movie ‘Forest Gump’

Broken Silence

On loneliness and separation from the wider world…

Automat – Edward Hopper (Painted in 1927)

The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.
Mitch Albom, American Author who famously penned ‘Tuesdays With Morrie’

The Still Remembered (Salk’s Hope)

On being a good ancestor…

Jonas Salk (Photographed in 1959)

Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.
Jonas Salk, American Virologist who developed one of the first successful Polio Vaccines

Cupid’s Dart

On cardiac battles and Cupid’s quiver…

Amor – Hans Makart (Painted between 1861 and 1884)

Hey hey, set me free! Stupid Cupid stop picking on me!
Connie Francis, American Singer and Actress

Profit Lost to Prophecy

Hope – George Frederic Watts (Painted in 1886)

A new year’s resolution worth considering: substituting the urge to prophesize with hoping.
Granville D. Austin, The Thinkerer

The Story of a Human Fall

The Fall of Icarus – Jacob Peter Gowy (Painted between 1636 and 1638)

If we fail to ward off Hubris, Error eventually does so for us.
Granville D. Austin, The Thinkerer

The Great Gust

Ventania (The Windstorm) – Antônio Parreiras (Painted in 1888)

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
Augustus Hare, English Writer and Raconteur

Unheard Heroics – Saint George

Saint George and the Dragon – Raphael (Painted in 1505)

But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.
Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

Unheard Heroics – Theseus

Theseus in the Minotaur’s Labyrinth – Edward Burne-Jones (Painted in 1861)

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca , Roman Philosopher and Statesman