The Eclectacy Laboratory

This painting is part of a series the artist made depicting the "Loves of Jupiter." Ganymede is a beautiful youth, nude except for a flowing red cloth. He is being carried aloft by a massive eagle, who is Zeus in disguise. The painting captures a moment of gentle surrender and almost dreamy sensu...

Understanding Friendship A quest to understand understanding: What is friendship?
Or, more precisely, what does it take to be a friend?
I've never considered myself a good friend to anyone.
I'd offer help, not necessarily when it was convenient, but when it didn't cost too much, if that makes sense.
I suppose I'd evaluate the investment.
I might help for days or weeks if I deemed it worthy and if it didn't take away from my family.
If I believed it would in any way negatively impact my child ...

Nay, move not! Sit just as you are, Under the carved wings of the chair. The hearth-glow sifting through your hair Turns every dim pearl to a star Dawn-drowned in floods of brightening air. I have been thinking of that night When all the wide hall burst to blaze With spears caught up, thrust fifty ways To find my throat, while I lay white And sick with joy, to think the days I dragged out in your hateful North-- A slave, constrained at banquet's need To fill the black bull's horns with mead F...