Quent Cordair's Blog, page 6
October 17, 2018
My Kingdom
My kingdom has no subjects,
No serfs, their backs to bear
The weight of lives of others;
None here are forced to share.
A kingdom filled with kings and queens,
Their castles great and small,
With princes blue, princesses true,
Good dogs to guard them all.
A kingdom built with brains and brawn,
Each year less brawn than brains;
We sow and reap, invent machines
That till the fertile plains.
We sail and dream, we wing the skies,
Beguile with arts refined;
We trade for riches far and near,
Hold f...
June 22, 2018
In which I’m interviewed by The Fussy Librarian …
“Author and artist Quent Cordair has come a long, long way from his upbringing….”
Check out The Fussy Librarian’s Q & A with me here ~ https://www.thefussylibrarian.com/newswire/for-readers/2018/06/22/author-qa-quent-cordair
May 26, 2018
May 11, 2018
For this Mothers Day, an excerpt ~
For this Mothers Day, I offer an excerpt from the current draft for IDOLATRY, Part III, The Fruit of the Tree (working title):
The lines had shuffled forward. Paige found herself standing next to the mother. The baby, bundled in her arms, had settled and calmed. He was so beautiful, so right, his blue eyes as clear and complete as little planets, encircled with rays of long blond lashes. His lips were ripe petals, formed for ready suckling. His ivory skin as of the most translucent, softest w...
May 7, 2018
May 1, 2018
Spirited Gods
Spirited gods of body and mind,
Cleaving the earth and taking the find,
Arranging the atoms above in a bend,
Beneath which to dine, to dance, and attend
To desirable ends and needful things,
Burning the coal, inventing the wings
Upon which to soar like winged beasts do,
While raising fat herds for the savory stew,
Weaving silk threads, carving bone combs,
Harvesting timber for warm and dry homes,
Gathering the knowledge to hold in one hand,
On tablets of plastic and metal and sand,
Harnessi...
April 22, 2018
The real meaning of Earth Day
For this Earth Day, a brief passage from Chapter 3 of A New Eden, Part II of Idolatry:
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The sun had risen high. The breeze was warm on their faces. Ian produced a bottle of chilled white wine and two glasses, removed the cork, and poured. He raised a toast.
“To another day in paradise.”
She touched her glass to his. They drank, the sunbeams reflecting off the wine and the glasses, dancing across their faces, splashing in their eyes. The wine was crisp, light and good.
“Paradise . . .”...
March 4, 2018
Plato’s children
ICE and the FDA are sister organizations, existing on the same plane, born of the same philosopher-king father and nanny-state mother. Both agencies were brought into existence on the same principle, to serve the same end: to stand between the individual and a class of things the individual might value, on grounds that only the government can properly judge whether the thing is good or harmful for the individual. Both agencies employ the same means. Through both organizations the government i...
February 25, 2018
February 14, 2018
2018 Cordair Arts and Wine Weekend
Join us FRIDAY JULY 6th & SATURDAY JULY 7th for a weekend of art, wine, music, art history, music theory and more!
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Location: Quent Cordair Fine Art, 1301 First Street, Napa, California
Reserve your seat for only $25. Call the gallery today. 707-255-2242
PROGRAM SUBJECT TO CHANGE
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FRIDAY EVENING, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Wine reception in the gallery, with a program of American and Great American Songbook music as performed by...
