Lenten meditation for 2/28/2021.
Image: Flowering Plum, in training since 1967. Artist: John Yoshio Naka. Photograph by Troy's Work Table, 2021, at Pacific Bonsai Museum.
Song: "Cherry Blossom" by Lana Del Rey. Studio version. Unreleased. Listen HERE.
Lenten meditation for 2/24/2021.
Image: "Saturn Devouring His Children," oil mural transferred to canvas, 1819–1823, by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes. From Goya's series of "Black Paintings."
Song: “Herd Killing” by The Future Sound of London, from the album Dead Cities (1996). Listen HERE.
Lenten meditation for 2/22/2021.
Image: “The Islands,” oil and graphite on canvas, 1961, by Agnes Martin.
Song: Part 1: “Acknowledgment” by John Coltrane, from the album A Love Supreme (1965). Listen HERE.
(Image and song selected for this meditation by Andy Engelson.)
Lenten meditation for 2/21/2021.
Image: "And They Laid Him in a Tomb," spray paint and ink on cardboard, 2020, by Troy Kehm-Goins.
Song: "Lament" by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Michael Brook, from the album Night Song (1996). Listen HERE.
Lenten meditation for 2/19/2021.
Image: "The Game of Chess," oil on canvas, 1555, by Sofonisba Anguissola.
Text: "A Game of Chess" by T. S. Eliot. Part II of The Waste Land. Published in 1922, read by T. S. Eliot and recorded in 1949. Listen HERE.
