{"id":764,"date":"2013-01-02T19:45:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T00:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=764"},"modified":"2013-01-02T19:48:56","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T00:48:56","slug":"andrea-del-sarto-called-the-faultless-painter-and-pauls-three-legged-stool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=764","title":{"rendered":"Andrea del Sarto (Called “The Faultless Painter”) and Paul’s three-legged stool."},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrea del Sarto<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>by Robert Browning<\/p>\n

I reread this poem on New Year\u2019s Day 2013. I believe that I had not read it fully since high school, and it is amazing how different it feels to read it in my late 60\u2019s compared to reading it as a teenager. “A man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?\u201d is a common quotation from the poem, and it was my intention to understand that phrase better though a better familiarity with its context. I often heard that phrase when young, with only vague understanding, The poem was written for an adult reader, yet I am grateful for having been exposed to it when still a callow youth.<\/p>\n

I suggest that you read the poem<\/a> and think about it yourself.<\/p>\n

It is amazing poem that perfectly fit the mood that I was in on New Year\u2019s Day and that relates to what I have been considering of late. I often find it helpful to try to express my thinking through writing, and my first Comment (\u201cThe three-legged stool\u201d) is an attempt at expressing how I am reviewing\/organizing\/structuring my life at the moment.<\/p>\n

p.s. Framed copies of two Elizabeth Barrett Browning poems (How do I love thee; If thou must love me.) hang in our bedroom with pressed leaves that a relative gathered from E.B.B.\u2019s grave in Florence on Christmas Day, 1911. I gave them to Fran our first Christmas. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andrea del Sarto\u00a0by Robert Browning I reread this poem on New Year\u2019s Day 2013. I believe that I had not read it fully since high school, and it is amazing how different it feels to read it in my late 60\u2019s compared to reading it as a teenager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-love","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":766,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions\/766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}