Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I learned about just this month: the Lithuanian composer and artist Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911). His paintings and music evoke a mysterious feeling that has stuck with me throughout these intensely rainy weeks in California. Some look a bit like the covers of alternate-reality C. S. Lewis or Tolkien books; others are visionary artworks in the style of William Blake.