4 December

Born in 1866 – Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-French painter.

Above: Murnau Street With Women,1908

Also, born in 1875, Austrian-Swiss poet and author Rainer Maria Rilke.

If you trust in Nature, in the small Things that hardly anyone sees and that can so suddenly become huge, immeasurable; if you have this love for what is humble and try very simply, as someone who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor: then everything will become easier for you, more coherent and somehow more reconciling, not in your conscious mind perhaps, which stays behind, astonished, but in your innermost awareness, awakeness, and knowledge.

Previously on December 4, Saint Barbara & Thomas Carlyle.