READING THE PAPER

MYRIAH'S GOLD

TJ Mabrey

Cut, folded paper, Gold Leaf, 20 x 20 inches

 

Who has seen the wind? 

Neither you nor I: 

But when the trees bow down their heads, 

The wind is passing by.

– Christina Rossetti



Northern New Mexico has some fierce winds this time of year. Some folks love it; others are driven to drink. Still others flee to their beds with a book to wait it out. Not much to do about this thing that technically we are not able to see. We only see its effects of air movement. How it affects objects is easy to witness. How it affects the mind is more difficult to explain. I will not even try. Following are wind quotes which may enlighten or entertain.

It is an all-too-human frailty to suppose that a favorable wind will blow forever. – Rick Bode


Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.

– William Shakespeare


The older you get the stronger the wind gets and it's always in your face.

– Jack Nicklaus


Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

– Robert Green Ingersoll


Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid. – Homer


Who am I to blow against the wind? – Paul Simon


Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.

– Hugo Black


When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.

– Frederick Douglass


True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

– John Petit-Senn


A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache. – Catherine the Great


Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak,

you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.

– Elizabeth I


Let mystery have its place in you; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring.

– Henri Frederic Amiel


These winds are driving me crazy! – TJ Mabrey

 

Hear the Kingston Trio from 1963 perform

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