Preservation Hall Jazz

Holiday

brute

easy rider

support

beauty still

"To be wise is to be eternally curious."

                                                                                                  Frederick Bruechner



Happy Father's Day

“We do not need to grieve for the dead. Why should we grieve for them? They are now in a place where there is no more shadow, darkness, loneliness, isolation, or pain. They are home.” John O'Donohue

Joseph M. Verrastro Sr. circa 1958

explore

...and forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet

and the wind longs to play with your hair...

                                                                                                                    Khalil Gibran

time

stream

stream

stream

field

field

field

         a dream

         pales sunlight
         diffused by sheer curtains
         plays on my face.
          disrupting--
         as I cling to
         a dream of you
         like trying to hold
         smoke
         after a candle
         has been blown out.    Mary Jones

     



Excerpt

Lorica of Saint Patrick

I arise today

Through the strength of heaven;

Light of the sun,

Splendor of fire,

Speed of lightning,

Swiftness of the wind,

Depth of the sea,

Stability of the earth,

Firmness of the rock.