Number 55: Lafcadio Hearn (January 12, 2012)
Writer Lafcadio Hearn sailed to Japan from New Orleans in April of 1890, beguiled in advance by a vision of "Fujiyama's white witchery," of a beatific Japan "with its magical trees and luminous atmosphere....and forty millions of the most lovable people in the universe."
--Christopher Benfrey, The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics and the Opening of Old Japan (New York: Random House, 2003), p. 222.
Number 54: Dove (January 16, 2011)
This dove--though the drawing in my notebook is only a few inches high--strikes me as somehow immense. But of course as an emblem of peace, a dove needs all the heft it can muster to minister to our queasy and tattered planet.
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