Photo from Wikimedia CHARATERS NADIA BOULANGER (16 September 1887 to 22 October 1979), French composer and conductor. Likely the greatest music teacher of all time. Possibly the most influential teacher since Socrates, as one leading composer has said of her. In that capacity Boulanger has influenced generations of music, most notably in the United States […]
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Photo from Wikimedia TIME, place AND NOTES Summer vacation, 2019, on board an ocean liner crossing the Atlantic. The primary characters are the seven children, who set about developing a variety show for an evening’s entertainment onboard ship. The world has gone mad todayAnd good’s bad todayAnd black’s white todayAnd day’s night todayAnd that gent
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“Now is the time, if ever there was one,for us to care selflessly about one another.” – Anthony Fauci. “The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people.But it does desperately need more peacemakers,more healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind.It needs people who live well in their places.It needs
Photo from Wikimedia You caught it in a glass jarto study it awhilein your kitchen, before turning it looseoutdoors. I didn’t study it. You did. You said.I didn’t exhaust myself with it. You did.I didn’t name it “Limbo.” Or read Sylvia Plath to it, half the night. You did. “Last summer’s reeds are all engraved
Photo by Luis Felipe Alburquerque Briganti from Pexels Crooked menlead crooked lives.Like lightning. “Now that I have your face by heart, I lookLess at its features than its darkening frameWhere quince and melon, yellow as young flame,Lie with quilled dahlias and the shepherd’s crook.Beyond, a garden. There, in insolent easeThe lead and marble figures watch the showOf yet
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