1DebiCates
NPM 2026, Day 21 "Yellow"
Look at the stars
Look how they shine for you
And everything you do
Yeah, they were all yellow
--Coldplay
Hope you find the prompt inspirational and celebratory. Feel free to create and share an original poem. Or tell an anecdote. Find a connection with an existing poem you know and share that. Or post a link to music, film, essay, book.
Or, just relax, view these images, and meditate a few minutes. Look outside at the stars.
Look at the stars
Look how they shine for you
And everything you do
Yeah, they were all yellow
--Coldplay
Hope you find the prompt inspirational and celebratory. Feel free to create and share an original poem. Or tell an anecdote. Find a connection with an existing poem you know and share that. Or post a link to music, film, essay, book.
Or, just relax, view these images, and meditate a few minutes. Look outside at the stars.
2DebiCates
NPM 2026, Day 21 "Yellow" Source and info
Barbara Latham, artist and illustrator https://roswell-nm.gov/1628/Barbara-Latham-Lifetime
Barbara Latham (American 1896-1989), Milkweed 1940, Egg Tempera on Panel 33.75x27.25" Permanent collection of Roswell Museum and Art Center, New Mexico, USA.. Milkweed is the only host plant for the monarch caterpillar. Five other native plants are crucial for the adult butterfly https://www.worldwildlife.org/resources/facts/beyond-milkweed-five-native-plants...
Wanda Gág, artist, writer, illustrator https://www.nga.gov/artists/4151-wanda-gag/artworks
Wanda Gág (American 1893-1946) Millions of Cats won a Newbery Honor award in 1929, one of the few picture books to do so. It is the oldest American picture book still in print. It entered the public domain in the United States in 2024. You can read it here https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/74181/pg74181-images.html My two granddaughters and I enjoyed her 1935 Gone is Gone; or, the Story of a Man Who Wanted to Do Housework
Hilma af Klint, artist and mystic https://www.guggenheim.org/audio/track/group-iv-the-ten-largest-no-7-adulthood-1...
Hilma af Klint (Swedish 1862-1944) Group IV, The Ten Largest, No. 7, Adulthood (Grupp IV, De tio största, nr 7, Mannaåldern) 1907, 315 x 235 cm (10.3 x 7.7 ft), tempera on paper mounted on canvas. Located at the Guggenheim Museum. "Art history has to be rewritten," and I must see this documentary! BEYOND THE VISIBLE: HILMA AF KLINT, trailer here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGw9sAxhXXw
Gwendolyn Brooks, poet https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/gwendolyn-brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks (American 1917-2000). Various schools in Illinois have been named after her, as well as two parks. In 2012 she was featured on a US postage stamp. In 1976 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, in 1995 she was presented with the National Medal of Arts. In 1950, Brooks became the first African-American to be given a Pulitzer Prize. She also served as US poet laureate 1985-1986. Portrait by Debi Cates, 2015, "suicide" linocut printed in four colors, oil, 8X10in on acid free paper. (That is what I'm going to do more of after I retire in July!)
The Trembling Giant – the Pando aspen tree colony https://thetreeographer.com/2017/11/22/pando-aspen/
Researchers are unsure about the actual age of Pando, but the general consensus is 80,000 years old, making it the oldest living thing on the planet. Each tree is a clone, individually living about 130 years, coming up from the extensive and ancient root system. Part of the Fishlake National Forest in Utah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ5GIq0DMaQ&t=4s
Barbara Latham, artist and illustrator https://roswell-nm.gov/1628/Barbara-Latham-Lifetime
Barbara Latham (American 1896-1989), Milkweed 1940, Egg Tempera on Panel 33.75x27.25" Permanent collection of Roswell Museum and Art Center, New Mexico, USA.. Milkweed is the only host plant for the monarch caterpillar. Five other native plants are crucial for the adult butterfly https://www.worldwildlife.org/resources/facts/beyond-milkweed-five-native-plants...
Wanda Gág, artist, writer, illustrator https://www.nga.gov/artists/4151-wanda-gag/artworks
Wanda Gág (American 1893-1946) Millions of Cats won a Newbery Honor award in 1929, one of the few picture books to do so. It is the oldest American picture book still in print. It entered the public domain in the United States in 2024. You can read it here https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/74181/pg74181-images.html My two granddaughters and I enjoyed her 1935 Gone is Gone; or, the Story of a Man Who Wanted to Do Housework
Hilma af Klint, artist and mystic https://www.guggenheim.org/audio/track/group-iv-the-ten-largest-no-7-adulthood-1...
Hilma af Klint (Swedish 1862-1944) Group IV, The Ten Largest, No. 7, Adulthood (Grupp IV, De tio största, nr 7, Mannaåldern) 1907, 315 x 235 cm (10.3 x 7.7 ft), tempera on paper mounted on canvas. Located at the Guggenheim Museum. "Art history has to be rewritten," and I must see this documentary! BEYOND THE VISIBLE: HILMA AF KLINT, trailer here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGw9sAxhXXw
Gwendolyn Brooks, poet https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/gwendolyn-brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks (American 1917-2000). Various schools in Illinois have been named after her, as well as two parks. In 2012 she was featured on a US postage stamp. In 1976 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, in 1995 she was presented with the National Medal of Arts. In 1950, Brooks became the first African-American to be given a Pulitzer Prize. She also served as US poet laureate 1985-1986. Portrait by Debi Cates, 2015, "suicide" linocut printed in four colors, oil, 8X10in on acid free paper. (That is what I'm going to do more of after I retire in July!)
The Trembling Giant – the Pando aspen tree colony https://thetreeographer.com/2017/11/22/pando-aspen/
Researchers are unsure about the actual age of Pando, but the general consensus is 80,000 years old, making it the oldest living thing on the planet. Each tree is a clone, individually living about 130 years, coming up from the extensive and ancient root system. Part of the Fishlake National Forest in Utah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ5GIq0DMaQ&t=4s
3DebiCates
A Thousand Dandelions
--Debi Cates
Oh Dandelion, how does it feel
when your thousand children launch
And you stand naked, left behind?
Do you think, as you droop,
how you once flew the air too
then rooted, waved beautifully in yellow?
Are you counting clouds again
remembering a certain courting bee
who flew to you and now must also be gone?
The field is full of such questions.
Oh Dandelion, did you ever once feel
you were as ordinary as a dandelion?
--Debi Cates
Oh Dandelion, how does it feel
when your thousand children launch
And you stand naked, left behind?
Do you think, as you droop,
how you once flew the air too
then rooted, waved beautifully in yellow?
Are you counting clouds again
remembering a certain courting bee
who flew to you and now must also be gone?
The field is full of such questions.
Oh Dandelion, did you ever once feel
you were as ordinary as a dandelion?
4elenchus
>2 DebiCates: Pando.
80K Years is pretty good, but I suspect there's older out there on this globe of ours. Maybe lichen related, or fungi. More likely, something in the oceanic abyssal plains that we haven't begun to experience. Not sure it'll be yellow!
But 80K is pretty good.
80K Years is pretty good, but I suspect there's older out there on this globe of ours. Maybe lichen related, or fungi. More likely, something in the oceanic abyssal plains that we haven't begun to experience. Not sure it'll be yellow!
But 80K is pretty good.
