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05/25/2026

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05/25/2026

Gotta love the way Jack Gilbert thinks. Failing and Flying

Jack Gilbert
1925 –
2012
Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew.
It’s the same when love comes to an end,
or the marriage fails and people say
they knew it was a mistake, that everybody
said it would never work. That she was
old enough to know better. But anything
worth doing is worth doing badly.
Like being there by that summer ocean
on the other side of the island while
love was fading out of her, the stars
burning so extravagantly those nights that
anyone could tell you they would never last.
Every morning she was asleep in my bed
like a visitation, the gentleness in her
like antelope standing in the dawn mist.
Each afternoon I watched her coming back
through the hot stony field after swimming,
the sea light behind her and the huge sky
on the other side of that. Listened to her
while we ate lunch. How can they say
the marriage failed? Like the people who
came back from Provence (when it was Provence)
and said it was pretty but the food was greasy.
I believe Icarus was not failing as he fell,
but just coming to the end of his triumph.

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05/24/2026

This...Is a glass top table. 59" long x 31" deep x 29" high. The base...I am...pretty sure...is an old, tribal, Taureg, camel saddle stand. It is quite sturdy, and I used it to display a, recently sold, large heavy sculpture. Since it's really too large for this cluttered room, and I don't need it anymore, I'm going to sell it. There's a smaller one on 1st Dibs that was listed for like $2000. $2000 works for me! However...since...sadly for them...most people are emotionally attached to their filthy $2000. I'll take $500. It will be the only one, in whatever town you live in !

12/22/2025

CONGRATULATIONS BRIDGET BROWN

This fabulous wool painting sold at the Daughter Of Th!e Stars show at Melissa Ichiugi Gallery. Daughter Of The Stars is part of Women Artists Of The DMV. The largest curated art show in the United States.
Bridget created this, with wool from her sheep!

12/13/2025

Barn Finds congratulates our resident artist !