It seems pumpkins do not inspire much respect. But I was enchanted by their charming and winsome form. What appealed to me most was the pumpkin’s generous unpretentiousness. That and its solid spiritual base.
Yayoi Kusama, via the Smithsonian newsdesk.
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DIY Halloween potato prints for lmnop created by Robin Rosenthal and photographed by Ian MacPherson, via Tea Collection.
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John Prine, performing "Daddy's Little Pumpkin.'
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Yayoi Kusama, Pumpkin, 2014. At the Cleveland Clinic main campus (my photo).
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William Archer, quoted in Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Victorian Literature by Catherine Maxwell.
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