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Musical Afterthoughts
Music is a universal language that speaks to each of our souls. In all of my life, I have never someone whose heart cannot be reached through music. I started my study of music via classical music at a very … Continue reading
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Tagged Alpha, Audience, Chaos, Concert Hall, Fleeting Moments, Heights, Icarus, Imagination, Immediacy, Maestro, Mood, Mozart, Music, Omega, Paradox, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Relevance, Rest, Serenity, Silence, Soul, Symmetry, Universal Language
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Thought For the Day: Musicians Paint On A Canvas of Silence
“A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.” – Leopold Stokowski
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Tagged Canvas, Leopold Stokowski, Musician, Painter, Paints, Silence, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Freedom Is More Usually Taken Through Gradual and Silent Encroachments
“There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” – James Madison, speech to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, 1788 … Continue reading
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Tagged Abridgment, Encroachments, First Principles, Freedom, Gradualism, James Madison, People, Power, Silence, Usurpations
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Thought For the Day: Attempted Censorship Often Honors the Superiority of An Idea
“The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.” – Joseph Sobran (1946-2010)
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Tagged Attempt, First Amendment, Honor, Humans, Ideas, Joseph Sobran, Silence, Superiority, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: Silence Can Be An Acceptable Response
“To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.” – Colette, author (28 Jan 1873-1954)
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Tagged Acceptable, Flattering, Poet, Response, Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, Silence, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: Better To Silent Than Speak and Be Thought A Fool
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.” – Maurice Switzer, in Mother Goose, Her Book I do not know that I fully agree with this adage. Maybe, I think, it is … Continue reading
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Tagged Doubt, Foolish, Maurice Switzer, Mother Goose, Remove, Silence, Thought For the Day, Vocal
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City of Noise
City of Noise by Michael Romani For our ears there is no escape Not from the bustling sounds Of our shared landscape The omnipresent din that surrounds This may seem benign and endearing But is noise pollution that we are … Continue reading
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Tagged Antagonism, Autonomy, City of Noise, Gentrified, Landscape, Moralism, Noise Pollution, Personal, Photograph, Poems, Poetry, Silence, Sound, Soundscape, Urban Blight
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Thought For the Day: Sometimes It Is the Silence In Music That Speaks Loudest
“A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh, writer (1906-2001)
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Tagged Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Music, Notes, Significance, Silence, Thought For the Day
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Willful Blindness
Willful Blindness by Michael Romani Few in words but reliable Is the life found viable Stated simply in the declarative The crucial moments in our narrative These crucial moments of unsparing poetry Slip the strictures in blurred novelty The courage … Continue reading
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