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The 2009 Literary Calligraphy calendar features 12 of Susan Loy's watercolor paintings featuring literary and Biblical quotations about Peace and Tranquility. Along with these beautiful paintings, you'll enjoy the entertaining quotes, literary birthdays, lunar phases, holidays, and other goodies interspersed throughout the calendar grid. We personally write and oversee every detail of calendar production -- done entirely Bedford County, VA. Our 12th calendar is an economical way to enjoy Susan's past and current art.
Each month features a different full-page image on the top, with a full-page monthly grid below (including past and future months) providing a perfect combination of beauty and utility. The 12" x 12" format opens to 12" x 24" -- large enough to display intricate detail and allow ample room for writing in important dates.
Here is what Susan Loy says about her new calendar:
Peace and tranquility are the themes of my 2009 Literary Calligraphy calendar. Each month presents various aspects of the theme from world peace to inner peace. I have interspersed daily captions throughout the calendar that provide insights from the journals and writings of Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, and others.
January begins the year with the timeless lines from Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8, "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven... a time of war and a time of peace." February features a peace mandala that is unique among my work in that it is the result of a collaboration between poet, Cathryn Hankla, and me. Hankla's poem reminds us that "peace is a practice, moment to moment." Louis Untermeyer's "House Prayer," presented in March, wishes peace, love, and laughter.
April shows "The Flowers in Spring" with works from many writers, including Rumi's "What the Flowers Said," in which the hyacinth said to the jasmine, "Peace be upon you." William Henry Channing's "My Symphony" and its message to live simply but elegantly is presented in May. June features Emily Dickinson's "There Came a Day at Summer's Full," which describes a peaceful summer day.
July presents "The Preamble" to the Constitution of the United States, which lays the foundation for our "domestic tranquility." William Penn's "Fruits of Solitude," shown in August, is full of wisdom such as "have an indifferency for more than what is sufficient." September displays "The Serenity Prayer" attributed to Reinhold Niebuhr, "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change..."
October features the Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi, "Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace..." November presents the hymn of praise, "For the Beauty of the Earth," which lauds the joy of human love and the mystic harmony. December concludes the year with a letter that Mark Twain wrote in 1868, when he imagined the scene in Bethlehem, where "possibly flowers were being charmed to life in the dismal plain where the shepherds watched their flocks, and the hovering angels were singing, peace on earth."
This calendar represents my wish for the inner peace and tranquility that all of these writers agree is the first step in the process toward world peace and domestic tranquility.
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