February 2012
“O Mozart! immortal Mozart! what countless impressions of a brighter, better life...”
– an excerpt from Schubert’s diary
June 13, 1816 - the year that Symphony No. 5 composed
BOO to Susan G. Komen for pulling funding for... →
Today I heard that the Susan G. Komen foundation (the pink ribbon people) pulled funding for Planned Parenthood because they were complying with their rule of pulling funding from organizations that were under investigation by Congress. Funny, I read that these investigations were instigated by anti-abortion groups.
Did you know that Planned Parenthood also provides breast cancer prevention...
January 2012
WatchLouange à l’Éternité de Jésus
Olivier Messiaen Quatuor pour la fin du temps
WatchLouange à l’Immortalité de Jésus
Olivier Messiaen Quatuor pour la fin du temps
“He has never seen God,
but, once or twice, he believes
he has heard Him.”
– W.H. Auden
"For the first time I know what love is..." →
In 1937, as photographer Ansel Adams recovered from a nervous breakdown, he wrote this beautiful letter to his best friend, Cedric Wright:
“Dear Cedric,
A strange thing happened to me today. I saw a big thundercloud move down over Half Dome, and it was so big and clear and brilliant that it made me see many things that were drifting around inside of me; things that ...
Holiday crowds swarmed, sprawled, and frolicked everywhere. It was one of those gala days that all the clowns, jugglers, animal trainers, and ambulant hucksters count on, long in advance, to make up for the lean seasons of the year. On such days people seem to forget everything, all their troubles and their toil; they become like children. For the youngsters it means freedom, the...
