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Sonic Gems: Baaba Maal and Mansour Seck – Djam Leelii
Bringing guitar back to its African roots, the music presented here is as pastoral as it is centered as it is mindful of a centered journey through life. This album of two African guitarists, some percussion and an electric accent … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, Baaba Maal, Djam Leelii, Guitar, Koro, Mansour Seck, Senegal, Sonic Gems
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics – The Confessions of St Augustine
St Augustine was born on November 13, 354 AD We have previously examined St Augustine’s life as well as his Confessions in part. Please review the previously posted material so that you receive a fuller picture of the work and the … Continue reading
WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Riff
There I was hanging out down on the dock When I was reminded by a clicking clock Not to reveal my hand to what might bite it And I had to smile, I couldn’t really fight it It was a … Continue reading
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Tagged Clock, Crocodile, Daily Prompt, Joke, Laugh, Neverland, Peter Pan, Pirate, Raff, Riff, Wordpress
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Thought For the Day: We Teach Our Children By Our Actions and Through Our Words
“The words a father speaks to his children in the privacy of the home are not overheard at the time, but, as in whispering galleries, they will be clearly heard at the end and by posterity.” – Jean Paul Richter, … Continue reading
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Tagged Example, Father, Jean Paul Richter, Mother, Parents, Posterity, Teach, Thought For the Day, Words
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First Principles: The Constitution Is Not Written On Blank Pages
“Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.” –Thomas Jefferson, letter to Wilson Nicholas, 1803 Every word in the Constitution either means something of particular intent or … Continue reading
Sonic Gems: Lecuona Plays Lecuona – Ernesto Lecuona
Cuban composer and pianist Ernesto Lecuona y Casado was born on August 6, 1895. Before he had passed away on November 29, 1963, he had composed over 600 pieces mostly in the Cuban vein. Through these compositions, Lecuona raised Cuban … Continue reading
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Tagged Classical, Cuba, Cuban Gershwin, Desi Arnaz, Ernesto Lecuona, Latin Music, Sonic Gems
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: Paradise Lost – John Milton
As previously discussed the epic blank verse poem Paradise Lost was a sort of mirror to Virgil’s Aeneid. It is considered by critics to be Milton’s major work. The poem relates the Biblical tale of the fall of man through the temptation of … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeneid, Blank Verse, Epic, Fall of Man, Garden of Eden, Havard Classics, John Milton, Paradise Lost
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Offense In the Name of the Lord
Offense In the Name of the Lord by Michael Romani Preacher man keeps on saying That he’s here for truth not playing Truth is what it is what it is To tell anything less would be amiss He’s been that … Continue reading
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Tagged Boldness, Christianity, Deliverance, Grace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Sermon, Truth, Worship
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Black
Never will I forget that black day of darkest infamy When horror stepped out of the pages of surreality Startling it way across this workaday world of you and me And killing others over a cartoon became our reality Certainly, … Continue reading
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Tagged Black, Cartoon, Daily Prompt, Free Speech, Free Thought, Hierography, Infamy, Paris, Profane, Tolerance, Wordpress
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First Principles: Neither the Constitution Nor Law Protects A Corrupt People
“[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.” –Samuel Adams (1749) How about that, the Founders called out the conditions of today more than we might … Continue reading
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Tagged Constitution, Corruption, First Principles, Laws, Samuel Adams, Wisdom, Wise
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