Exquisite botanical paintings from Jacques le Moyne, a sixteenth century French painter who is best-known for his work as part of a (failed) French expedition to Florida:
Finished reading: Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis 📚
Honest, sobering reflections on life without H. It’s Lewis, ergo worthwhile. But felt a little strange to read, as if I’d stolen his diary.
Sometimes, Lord, one is tempted to say that if you wanted us to behave like the lilies of the field you might have given us an organization more like theirs. But that, I suppose, is just your grand experiment. Or no; not an experiment, for you have no need to find things out. Rather your grand enterprise. To make an organism which is also a spirit; to make that terrible oxymoron, a ‘spiritual animal.’ To take a poor primate, a beast with nerve-endings all over it, a creature with a stomach that wants to be filled, a breeding animal that wants its mate, and say, ‘Now get on with it. Become a god.’