28 January

Born in 1863 – Ernest William Christmas, Australian-American painter.

Above: Kilauea Caldera, c. 1917

Also, born in 1853, Russian philosopher and poet Vladimir Solovyov.

True spiritual love is not a feeble imitation and anticipation of death, but a triumph over death, not a separation of the immortal form from the mortal, of the eternal from the temporal, but a transfiguration of the mortal into the immortal, the acceptance of the temporal into the eternal. False spirituality is a denial of the flesh; true spirituality is the regeneration of the flesh, its salvation, its resurrection from the dead.

― from The Meaning of Love (1894)