Art and thoughts by Roger Vincent Jasaitis

This Speaks My Mind

  • Becoming Beauty

    “What we do not nourish within ourselves cannot exist in the world around us because we are its microcosm. We cannot moan the loss of quality in our world and not ourselves seed the beautiful in our wake. We cannot decry the loss of the spiritual and continue ourselves to function only on the level…

  • Sugaring by Starlight

     Sugaring by Starlight The weather forecast here in Vermont for the coming week has no frost in it for the first time since last October. Spring is here, and with it the last of my winter images for the (now past) winter. In the spring when the maple sap starts to flow, the sugar makers…

  • Miracle enough…

      The last of the snow, the first of the green plants…miracle enough. While talking with a neighbor this week, he ( being a Catholic) remarked on the importance of Easter Sunday in his faith. He made the observation of how lucky we are to live in New England where we have a physical, tangible…

  • Cold Hearted Orb

      Cold-hearted orb that rules the night, Removes the colours from our sight Red is grey, and yellow white But we decide which is right. And which is an illusion. Pinprick holes in a colourless sky, Let incipient figures of light pass by, The mighty light of ten thousand suns, Challenges infinity and is soon…

  • The Divine Spark

    In his recent column,  Among Friends in Friends Journal, Gabriel Ehri wrote; “When we are privileged to experience great art, we experience wonder: wonder at sheer beauty, at discovering a novel avenue of our own perception, and often wonder at the seemingly impossible fineness of the artist’s execution. Art, like worship, can allow us to…