“On soft Spring nights I’ll stand in the yard under the stars - Something good will come

“On soft Spring nights I’ll stand in the yard under the stars - Something good will come out of all things yet - And it will be golden and eternal just like that - There’s no need to say another word.”~ Jack Kerouac[Starry sky, 1914 - Nicholas Roerich] • Kerouac saw his mission as a writer in religious terms. He was born in 1922 and raised in a …Catholic French-American home in Lowell, Massachusetts. His name at baptism was Jean-Louis. When he was 4 years old, his older brother Gerard died of rheumatic fever. Afterward his mother, encouraged by the religious sisters in the parish, venerated Gerard as a saint. His father, however, lost his faith and grew anticlerical. More: https://angelusnews.com/arts-culture/original-hipsters-the-beats-catholic-confusion/ • It is not hard to find the influence of Nicholas Roerich in this city if you know where to look. Not that the 20th century mystic and artist is obscure here – among Russia’s cultured classes, he is well known for his visionary Tibetan landscapes and spiritually allegorical art. But he is also famed for his lifelong devotion to the cause of global peace, perhaps best through a peace symbol of his devising: three red dots arranged like a small pyramid within a red circle. More: https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2017/0503/How-an-art-museum-in-Russia-became-the-target-of-Kremlin-police-raids  -- source link

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