All posts by Eric Robert Nolan

Eric Robert Nolan graduated from Mary Washington College in 1994 with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology. He spent several years a news reporter and editorial writer for the Culpeper Star Exponent in Culpeper, Virginia. His work has also appeared on the front pages of numerous newspapers in Virginia, including The Free Lance – Star and The Daily Progress. Eric entered the field of philanthropy in 1996, as a grant writer for nonprofit healthcare organizations. Eric’s poetry has been featured by Dead Beats Literary Blog, Dagda Publishing, The International War Veterans’ Poetry Archive, and elsewhere. His poetry will also be published by Illumen Magazine in its Spring 2014 issue.

“Love is patient, love is kind.”

Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast,
it is not proud.
It does not dishonour others,
it is not self-seeking,
it is not easily angered,
and it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil
but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects,
always trusts,
always hopes,
and always perseveres.

Love never fails.

—  1 Corinthians 13



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Photo credit: Follash, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons

Street Dad Strikes.

You know you’re getting old when you pass 20-somethings in the street and get paternal impulses.  MY DUDE, WHERE IS YOUR JACKET?  Did you leave the house wearing only a flannel shirt?

[Update — sorry for any repeat posts, guys.  It’s a WordPress glitch — not mine.]



Starting off the New Year with some new artwork.

Courtesy of my dear friend Anna, who sent me this neurographic painting.  Neurographic art is a meditative process in which artists channel their subconsciouses to create. 

Thanks, Anna!  Your painting now has a permanent home upon the Wall of Important Keepsakes.



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Cover to “Amazing Spider-Man” #1, Alex Ross, 2015

Marvel Comics.

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“A ship in a harbor is safe …”

“A ship in a harbor is safe but that is not what ships are built for.”

— John A. Shedd (attributed)



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The Ships “Winged Arrow” and “Southern Cross” in Boston Harbor, Fitz Henry Lane, 1853

“The whole future lies in uncertainty …”

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Source: the “Life” Facebook page

Title page of W. H. Auden’s “The Age of Anxiety,” 1947

Random House.

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(And this meme says a clear thing in a blurry way.)

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“The Sea (Rose Pastor Stokes, Caritas Island, Connecticut),” Clarence Hudson White, 1909

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“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought …”

“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and. the thought has found words.”

—  Robert Frost



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