https://janusworx.com/tags/versailles/Recent content in Versailles on JanusworxHugo -- gohugo.ioenfeedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza)feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza)© 2026, Mario Jason BraganzaSat, 06 Apr 2024 20:39:16 +0530https://janusworx.com/personal/the-art-of-losing/Sat, 06 Apr 2024 20:39:16 +0530feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza)https://janusworx.com/personal/the-art-of-losing/<p><br> <a href="https://janusworx.com/images/2024/art-of-losing.jpg" > <figure> <img class="my-0 rounded-md" src="https://janusworx.com/images/2024/art-of-losing-s.jpg" alt="" /> </figure></a></p> <figcaption style="font-style: italic; text-align: center; font-size: 85%; color: var(--secondary)"> <p>A path, somewhere in the palace gardens at Versailles.<br> Click to enlarge</p> </figcaption> <p><hr style='margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 40px; margin-top: 50px; width:100px; border: none; background-color:rgb(238, 238, 238); color: rgb(238, 238, 238); height: 1px;'/> Lose something every day. Accept the fluster<br> of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.<br> The art of losing isn’t hard to master.</p> <p>I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,<br> some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.<br> I miss them, but it wasn’t a disaster.</p> <p>— Elizabeth Bishop, <em><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47536/one-art" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">One Art</a></em></p> <p><hr style='margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 40px; margin-top: 50px; width:100px; border: none; background-color:rgb(238, 238, 238); color: rgb(238, 238, 238); height: 1px;'/> Feedback on this post? Mail me at <a href="mailto:&amp;#102;&amp;%23101;&amp;%23101;&amp;%23100;&amp;%2398;&amp;%2397;&amp;%2399;&amp;%23107;&amp;%2364;&amp;%23106;&amp;%2397;&amp;%23110;&amp;%23117;&amp;%23115;&amp;%23119;&amp;%23111;&amp;%23114;&amp;%23120;&amp;%2346;&amp;%2399;&amp;%23111;&amp;%23109;" >feedback at this domain</a> <br> <br> P.S. Subscribe to my <a href="https://janusworx.com/subscribe/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">mailing list!</a><br> Forward these posts and letters to your friends and get them to subscribe!<br> P.P.S. Feed my <a href="https://www.amazon.in/hz/wishlist/ls/2QAUKHHAMOOVS?ref_=wl_share" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">insatiable reading habit.</a></p>