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Monthly Archives: October 2017
Thought For the Day: Inspiration Requires Moments of Quiet and Rest
“Inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, … Continue reading
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Tagged Brenda Ueland, Creativity, Idleness, Inspiration, Solitude, Stillness
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Sonic Gems – X – Wild Gift
X is an American punk band that originated in Los Angeles in 1977. The original members were Exene Cervenka (vocalist), John Doe (vocalist/bassist), Billy Zoom (guitarist) and D.J. Bonebrake (drummer. This first wave band of American punk put out seven … Continue reading
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Tagged Billy Zoom, Exene Cervenka, John Doe, Los Angeles, Punk Rock, Sonic Gems, Wild Gift, X
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics – Plutarch’s Lives – Caesar
Within Plutarch’s Parallel Lives previously discussed on an earlier post is the biography of Caesar. By this, I mean Gaius Julius Caesar known as simply Julius Caesar. Except that is that there is very little that is simple about Julius Caesar. … Continue reading
Verbal Intention
Verbal Intention by Michael Romani The word is miserable and flimsy But I cannot help stealing the word The word that speaks is mimsy A word that was two and then blurred At Lewis Carroll’s sharp whimsy It’s a looking … Continue reading
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Tagged Free Verse, Inventions, Lewis Carroll, Linguistics, Looking Glass, Memes, Neologism, Neophile, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Verbal, Word Play
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Cacophony
Madmen hear music that is heard like a symphony To rest of us it plays unwell as a sort of cacophony Something majoring in the key of clashing dissonance That we swear that in the future we will have vigilance … Continue reading
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Tagged Cacophony, Choice, Daily Prompt, Dice, Photograph, Symphony, Toss, Vigilance, Wordpress
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First Principles: All Governments Eventually Go Back To Their First Principles
“There is not in the whole science of politics a more solid or a more important maxim than this — that of all governments, those are the best, which, by the natural effect of their constitutions, are frequently renewed or … Continue reading
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Tagged First Principles, Government, James Wilson, Lectures On Law, Maxim, Political Science, Renewed, Theory
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Thought For the Day: Holding Hands Helps With Life’s Stumbles
“Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.” – Emily Kimbrough, author and broadcaster (23 Oct 1899-1989) Hard to argue against the notion that we all need a hand to … Continue reading
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Tagged Comfort, Emily Kimbrough, Handholding, Humanity, Mistakes, Stumble, Walk
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics – Thackeray – Jonathan Swift
Interestingly, despite multiple searches, I came up empty on additional material about this essay written by Thackeray pertaining to Jonathan Swift. I will say that the essay was deemed sufficient to include it in the Harvard Classics and that it … Continue reading
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Tagged Essay, Harvard Classics, Humorist, Jonathan Swift, Satire, Thackeray
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Sonic Gems – Richard Wagner – Die Walkure
The Valkyries or Die Walkure, WWV 86B, is a music drama in three acts by Richard Wagner with a German libretto. It is the second work in the four pieces that form Der Ring des Nibelungen or The Ring of the Nibelung. It is … Continue reading
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Tagged Die Walkure, Edda, King Ludwig, Mythology, Norse, Richard Wagner, Sonic Gems, The Ring of the Nibelung, Valkyries, Volsunga Saga
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Here In This Age of Wonder
Here In This Age of Wonder by Michael Romani Here in this age of wonder Mankind dreams much and then blunders Governments desperately try to lead In words, actions and in deeds Yet, with all of this going on Some … Continue reading
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Tagged Age of Wonder, Better Place, Dreamers, Dreams, Peace, Photograph, Plan, Poems, Poetry, Time
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 