Thursday, December 27, 2012
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
holiday card 2012
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© Hector Lee, 2012
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May the blessings of peace + joy + love be with you this holiday season.
Monday, December 24, 2012
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
La virgen de Guadalupe: 12/12/12
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© Hector Lee, 2012
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Sunday, December 2, 2012
there is a blessing in this
Remember to cherish each day and tell your loved ones that you love them.
Saturday, December 1, 2012
ODC's Velveteen Rabbit
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| Ade: I want to go ice skating. |
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
A Taste for Modernism
On Sunday, MM and I had a
chance to visit the William S. Paley Collection A Taste for Modernism in the de Young Museum. Paley, the founder of CBS,
bequeathed his collection of masterpieces of Picasso, Matisse, Cezanne to MOMA
in NYC. As his company grew into one of the world’s largest broadcast
companies, he endeavored in philanthropic work, becoming MOMA’s president. He
collected works that were intimate in scale and character and had the art adorn
his apartment, providing a personal and immediate experience of these works.
The small and digestible
exhibition did not have the chronological organization as the previous
Impressionist exhibits. Rather it had the feel of a stamp collection mirroring
the modern taste of the collector. A few of the works were simply striking and
moving and arresting.
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Henri Matisse Odalisque
with a Tambourine
I love Matisse’s Odalisque: it shows movement, composition and balance of color. |
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Henri Matisse The
Musketeer
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| Pablo Picasso La Coiffure |
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Pablo Picasso Circus
Rider
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| Pierre Bonnard Reclining Nude |
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Édouard Vuillard The
Green Lamp
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Georges Braque Still Life
on a Mantelpiece
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Georges Rouault Biblical
Landscape with Two Trees
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Georges Rouault Little
Peasant Girl
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Georges Rouault The
Clown
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Rouault has been a
favorite of mine for his black lines that contain bright color and his
sympathetic characters and religious imagery.
Come celebrate
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| © Hector Lee, 2012 |
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| © Kara Gonzales, 2012 |
Nothing is more practical than finding God, than falling in Love in a quite absolute, final way. What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything. It will decide what will get you out of bed in the morning, what you do with your evenings, how you spend your weekends, what you read, whom you know, what breaks your heart, and what amazes you with joy and gratitude. Fall in Love, stay in love, and it will decide everything.
--Pedro Arrupe S.J.
Happy 25th anniversary, Robert & Paloma.
Happy 25th anniversary, Robert & Paloma.
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| © Paloma Similla, 2012 |
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Christ the King
You say I am a king.
For this I was born and
for his I came into the world:
To testify to the
truth.
Everyone who belongs to
the truth listens to my voice.
--John 18:37
We encounter truths in our
lives. Some “truths” are given to us. But some truths are born out of
experience and life—no less real than the laws of physics. Below I provide some
truths that I’ve come to in my life or truths I try to live out:
- The purpose of life is to love and be loved.
- I can only change myself. As I recognize the
circumstances necessary for my change, I can have compassion and only
invite others to their own change.
- Change can be both scary and life-affirming.
- I must accept people as they are and as they
can be.
- Failure to address a problem is sometimes not
a lack of knowledge and will but of imagination.
- When I am angry, I must find the cause within
rather than the cause without.
- Man (and woman) are not meant to be alone. Gen
2:18
- To have strength for my job, I must remember
to nourish myself, identify and do the things that I enjoy about my job,
and remind myself of my core values as to why chose this job.
- To do nothing is a value.
- Be creative. Recreate.
- The best cure for loneliness is solitude.
- I have to have a God otherwise I will create one.
© Hector Lee, 2012
Friday, November 23, 2012
The mystery of vocations
Vocation is partially
about the job, but more about the way a person’s choice of work allows
something deeper to develop in his or her heart. For many “the call” comes at
the expense of other aspirations. It is a trade-off. We let go of certain
impulses and choose to follow other desires, in what is often circuitous route,
that we hope will lead toward a deeper awareness of how we might better love
and serve humanity.
--Fr. Paul Lickteig,
S.J
Read more:
http://thejesuitpost.org/site/2012/09/how-vocations-happen-it-could-happen-to-you/
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Sunday, November 18, 2012
WWW: what went well?
During Sunday’s homily,
Fr. Buckley mentioned that as part of helping those in the St. Vincent de Paul
Wellness Center to flourish, he has the participants ask themselves: What
went well? And have them list
3 things that went well. Doing this repeatedly has an impact on the person’s
whole outlook and disposition.
It appears that it
comes from Ignatian examen of consciousness, of 1. What went well? 2 what
didn’t go well? 3. What can I do better next time? It affirms the goodness we are and we do,
acknowledges the truth about our failings, and is rooted in the hope that we
can change.
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Saturday, November 10, 2012
My wonderful world of shoes
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© Hector Lee, 2012
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Safe within my walls
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© Hector Lee, 2012
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Safe within my walls,
You open your arms
You open your arms
And invite me to risk—
To trust in honesty,
In order to be whole
And alive,
And free to love.
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Longing
Longing
Come to me in my dreams,
and then
By day I shall be well
again!
For so the night will more
than pay
The hopeless longing of
the day.
Come, as thou cam’st a
thousand times,
A messenger from radiant
climes,
And smile on thy new work,
and be
As kind to others as to
me!
Or, as thou never cam’st
in sooth,
Come now, and let me dream
it truth,
And part my hair and kiss
my brow,
And say, my love why
sufferest thou?
Come to me in my dreams,
and then
By day I shall be well
again!
For so the night will more
than pay
The hopeless longing of
the day.
--Matthew Arnold
1822-1888
Monday, October 1, 2012
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Meklit & Quinn
I first heard Meklit Hadero some years ago at a KFOG concert. We got to see her with Quinn DeVeaux at Yoshi’s this past Tuesday. What a treat! The show was largely covers of songs of which I was unfamiliar. The duo had an endearing and playful chemistry. They complemented each other with music, part soul, jazz, folk, was heartfelt and just infectiously delightful. Her clear voice hit on notes in a playful and commanding way, while Quinn’s smoky voice went well with New Orlean’s jazzy notes. It was inspiring to see someone who loves to do what they do and share it with others. As their poster quotes Matthew Forss review: “The music is not rock or folk; it’s just good music with good instrumentation. It’s that simple … and delectable.”
We got to meet the artists
afterwards but the best was meeting Meklit’s father who came from Florida with
his girlfriend. He was such a happy and proud father.
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Nurture
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Nurture © Hector Lee, 2012
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Let him kiss me with the
kisses of his mouth!
More delightful is your love than wine!
More delightful is your love than wine!
Your name spoken is a
spreading perfume—
that is why the maidens love you.
Draw me— We will follow
you eagerly!
Bring me, O king, to your chambers.
With you, we rejoice and
exult, we extol your love;
it is beyond wine: how rightly you are loved.
Song of Songs 1:2-4
Thursday, September 20, 2012
The Normal Heart
On Wednesday, we went to see Larry Kramer’s The Normal
Heart at A.C.T. It was a moving drama set
in the early 80s when the appearance of AIDS/HIV began to appear among the gay
community of NYC. Kramer’s alter-ego Ned is a Cassandra telling the gay
community, the medical establishment and politicians to do act on this
information, but their tepid and fearful response incends Ned, whose lover and
friends are impacted by AIDS. I thought the drama by Kramer, who founded ACT-UP
and the Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC), would be a screed against what
individuals and organizations had failed to do in the face of an epidemic, but
it was an emotional work because of the impact AIDS had on loving relationships:
that with family, with lovers and friends. I was especially moved my the
depiction of one character bringing his dying partner back to his mother—a
modern day pieta. HIV infections continues to rise among many populations and
the take away is that we should fight and scream for that which we truly care
about.
Sunday, September 16, 2012
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Monday, September 3, 2012
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