Comments on: The Lyf so Short; the Craft so Long to Lerne http://paintedgenerations.com/blog Exploring possibilities, asking questions, discovering life day by day. Sat, 27 Aug 2011 05:36:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Barbara Hartsook http://paintedgenerations.com/blog/articles/the-lyf-so-short-the-craft-so-long-to-lerne/comment-page-1/#comment-17076 Barbara Hartsook Sat, 15 Jan 2011 13:52:44 +0000 http://paintedgenerations.com/blog/?page_id=285#comment-17076 Thank you, Lyn. I think most of us open fully to our visions over time. That's what struck me so completely about the quote. There's a certain peace and fulfillment that comes with years of pursuing. It's not all frantic, though surely some of it is. Over our lifetimes, however long or short they may be, our music crescendos. And that's a good thing. :) Hi Jeff. And thank you so much for the source of the quote! I followed up with a search of my own. Brings even more meaning to it when I read the Latin, then the English versions in Wikipedia: [The] art is long, life is short, opportunity fleeting, experiment dangerous, judgment difficult. My father-in-law used to recite long passages from The Canterbury Tales. I didn't understand him, but I loved hearing him. I remember tackling some of Chaucer when I was a sophomore in high school. Not a lot of it stuck. Haha. Bless you for taking the time here... Barb Thank you, Lyn. I think most of us open fully to our visions over time. That’s what struck me so completely about the quote. There’s a certain peace and fulfillment that comes with years of pursuing. It’s not all frantic, though surely some of it is. Over our lifetimes, however long or short they may be, our music crescendos. And that’s a good thing. :)

Hi Jeff. And thank you so much for the source of the quote! I followed up with a search of my own. Brings even more meaning to it when I read the Latin, then the English versions in Wikipedia:

[The] art is long,
life is short,
opportunity fleeting,
experiment dangerous,
judgment difficult.

My father-in-law used to recite long passages from The Canterbury Tales. I didn’t understand him, but I loved hearing him. I remember tackling some of Chaucer when I was a sophomore in high school. Not a lot of it stuck. Haha.

Bless you for taking the time here…

Barb

]]> By: Jeff http://paintedgenerations.com/blog/articles/the-lyf-so-short-the-craft-so-long-to-lerne/comment-page-1/#comment-15478 Jeff Fri, 03 Dec 2010 12:58:18 +0000 http://paintedgenerations.com/blog/?page_id=285#comment-15478 The quote is Hippocrates and included by Geoffrey Chaucer (14th century) in his poem, 'Parlement of Foules'. The quote is Hippocrates and included by Geoffrey Chaucer (14th century) in his poem, ‘Parlement of Foules’.

]]> By: Lyn http://paintedgenerations.com/blog/articles/the-lyf-so-short-the-craft-so-long-to-lerne/comment-page-1/#comment-10205 Lyn Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:08:39 +0000 http://paintedgenerations.com/blog/?page_id=285#comment-10205 How beautiful and how true. We are each a blank canvas or a piano alone in a room, until we take the time to open ourselves up to our own visions and our own music. Thank you, Barbara Hartsook. How beautiful and how true. We are each a blank canvas or a piano alone in a room, until we take the time to open ourselves up to our own visions and our own music. Thank you, Barbara Hartsook.

]]> By: Over Coffee… sharing thoughts, paintings… » Blog Archive » It Takes a Lifetime to Develop our Craft… Fully http://paintedgenerations.com/blog/articles/the-lyf-so-short-the-craft-so-long-to-lerne/comment-page-1/#comment-1445 Over Coffee… sharing thoughts, paintings… » Blog Archive » It Takes a Lifetime to Develop our Craft… Fully Sat, 01 Nov 2008 23:08:40 +0000 http://paintedgenerations.com/blog/?page_id=285#comment-1445 [...] Well, that’s a lofty goal. One stuffed full of promise for our lives. But then God does claim to have packed each of us with his purpose.¹ He is not necessarily concerned with immediacy, though, ² and eventually he ties it all up and makes it work.³ … (read the rest of the article here) [...] [...] Well, that’s a lofty goal. One stuffed full of promise for our lives. But then God does claim to have packed each of us with his purpose.¹ He is not necessarily concerned with immediacy, though, ² and eventually he ties it all up and makes it work.³ … (read the rest of the article here) [...]

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