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The Human Library

In Denmark, there are libraries where you can ′′ borrow ′′ a person instead of a book to listen to their life story for 30 minutes. The goal is to fight prejudice. Each person has a title like: ′′ unemployed ", ′′ refugee ", ′′ bipolar ", but listening to…

Blog planned on interviews with concentration camp survivors from 1946

“Voices of the Holocaust”: The unique interviews with concentration camp survivors directly after the liberation are to be brought closer to a wider audience. The German historian Jürgen Bassfreund is planning a blog.

The unique sound archive “Voices of the Holocaust” has been accessible to the public for over ten years, but is almost unknown to…

When God had completed the creation of the tree of life God determined next to create the fruit of it. And so he designed and made Adam from the dust..

At this point God requested all created life to bow down to the form of Adam. All created life did so with the exception of the Jinn who refused to bow and so it was that the Jinn saw God breathe life into Adam..

But next God dived and disappeared into its own creation and hid in the heart of Adam and so the fruit of the…

Secrets out Sunday!

Read something great...?

Have you seen a brilliant film or exhibition..?

Found a glorious recipe or photographed something marvelous?

Have you been stitching and making or have you started a new business?

Let me know below with a few words and links.

If you would like a new…

“Forever Young – A Bob Dylan 80th Birthday Celebration”

Bob Dylan sings during a concert on Sept. 6, 1987, in Tel Aviv. (Anat Givon/AP)

“May your heart always be joyful

May your song always be sung

May you stay forever young”

– Bob…

Art by Lily Seika Jones

Why, the very thought

That you thought of me

In such a way

Well,

That shall see me through my day

Poem written by Athey…

one from a year ago and one from today neither of which have been shown before.

bubble

full of fun -having noticed the change in orientation

i asked what does it take to turn a corner.) To know

where you are going, she said (in that languid time

of after shower changing when intimacy is felt

as common ground for nothing but simply being,

although it’s a mystery why the glimpse of an errant

but well known breast still thrilled as…

Still waiting to put something of mine up. Below is a poem written by my wife very recently. Des Dillon came across it and suggested it would go well here:

IS%20IT%20OKAY.pdf 

IS IT OKAY?

Is it OK to feel…

“I believe that we, that this planet, hasn't seen its Golden Age. Everybody says its finished ... art's finished, rock and roll is dead, God is dead. Fuck that! This is my chance in the world. I didn't live back there in Mesopotamia, I wasn't there in the Garden of Eden, I wasn't there with Emperor Han, I'm right here right now and I…

"Rabbit Dancing Graces" by Melinda Cooper

Across the Western Hemisphere, May is the month for flora, fauna, and gardeners to revel in the arrival of spring. In Celtic lands, Maia (the Roman goddess of growth and increase for whom the month is named) originally shared the May…

i have sought to love you

unworthy that i am

i have sat in the tall grass

looking out over water

watching a setting sun

and i have sought to love you

unworthy that i am

i have walked poetic the meadow

a red tailed hawk circled…

 Monoimus lived in the 2nd Cent.. below is an extract of a letter he sent to a friend:  

   Cease to seek after God in created things, such as the universe and the like. Seek Him within thyself, and learn who it is. who includes always all things within himself, saying 'My God, my mind, my reason, my soul, my body.' And learn from where comes sorrow and joy, and love and hate, and being awake against ones will, and sleeping against one's will,…

 this is the most authentic demonstration of two voice singing that i know from Anna-Maria Hefele 9mins

.polyphonic overtone singing - explained visually - YouTube

One of Poland's greatest poets, Adam Zagajewski, who wrote a poem that came to symbolize the world's sense of shock and loss after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States, died in Krakow on Sunday March 21, 2021, aged 75

(picture alliance / dpa / Grzegorz Jakubowski)

Adam…

Landscape Garden Meadow in Flower, 1906

Gustav Klimt

Oberösterreichisches Bauernhaus, 1911

Gustav Klimt

Rosebushes Under the Trees, 1905

Gustav…

 this link provides 4 very short clips each of which demonstrates the burning of snow that will not melt..

 this was the snow that fell on Texas last week:

  .Texas Snow That Doesn't Melt? Weather Modification…

For further emphasis:

“Pity the nation whose people are sheep,

and whose shepherds mislead them.

Pity the nation whose leaders are liars, whose sages are silenced,

and whose bigots haunt the airwaves.

Pity the nation that raises not its voice,

except to praise conquerors and acclaim the bully as hero

and aims to rule the world with force and by torture.

Pity the nation that knows no other language but its own

and no other…

this 17 minute utube are the words of Aldous Huxley and George Orwell together with very evocative artwork.

 the subject is a warning that is most relevant in our time Now .. please do your very best to take heed.

.Love Your Servitude - Aldous Huxley & George Orwell - YouTube…

this is for those who are wondering what is happening re: world health.. having read from different sources many differing explanations this link is by far the very best i have come across.. it takes about 15 or 20 minutes to read..

UK COVID Conundrum: The Mysterious Case of Disappearing Flu | Principia Scientific Intl.…

Today I bow to all women

who have endured

oppression, silencing, abuse, rape.



Today I bow to all women

who have made any steps

in their lifetime toward finding their voice, their truth, their heart, their power, in spite of it all.



Today I bow

to the long line of women who were…