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Why "Moondance" exists !

"I love science.

I also love the concept of magic.

I don't find that these ideas conflict.

Fact and magic go together like sound and song,

like ink and poetry,

like truth and metaphor.

A good metaphor does not destroy the truth.

It brings it home to a human context.

For me, magic is about…

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Added by Eva Libre on December 27, 2022 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Chanukah 1932:

Chanukah 1932:

"It was on a Friday afternoon right before Shabbat that this photo was taken. My grandmother realized that this was a historic photo, and she wrote on the back of the photo that ‘their flag wishes to see the death of Judah, but Judah will always survive, and our light will outlast their flag.’

My…

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Added by Eva Libre on December 20, 2022 at 2:22pm — No Comments

A Family Fairy Tale

“He drew a circle that shut me out. Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle and took him in!” From the poem “Outwitted” by Edwin Markham.

Every family has its stories. My family’s stories contain a fairy tale. There are no magic beans,…

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Added by Eva Libre on December 9, 2022 at 12:30pm — No Comments

The level of culture

The level of culture

On the spiritual and cultural level, traditional matriarchal societies do not have religions based on a God who is invisible, untouchable, and incomprehensible -- but omnipotent -- and in contrast to whom the world is devalued as “dead matter”. In matriarchy, divinity is immanent, for the whole world is…

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Added by Eva Libre on November 28, 2022 at 11:23pm — No Comments

Solitude is a condition of peace

Solitude is a condition of peace that stands in direct opposition to loneliness. Loneliness is like sitting in an empty room and being aware of the space around you. It is a condition of seperateness. Solitude is becoming one with the space around you. It is a condition of union. Lonliness is small, solitude is large. Lonliness closes in around you; solitude expands toward the infinite. Lonliness has its roots in words, in an internal conversation that nodbody answers; solitude has it's…

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Added by Eva Libre on October 18, 2022 at 8:08pm — No Comments

Shana Tova !

מאחל לכל החברים שנה טובה, שנה של שמחה, בריאות, שגשוג ושלום !

A Shana Tova to all friends, a year of happiness, health, prosperity and peace !

 Eva L.

Added by Eva Libre on September 25, 2022 at 1:05pm — 3 Comments

'Life'

Men don’t age better than women,

men age without fear,

without worry,

without judgement.

Men age secure in the knowledge that it’s as it should be,

and the fight is not theirs to take on.

Men age without prying eyes looking for lines,

looking for grey hairs or spare fat.

Men just age.…

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Added by Eva Libre on September 5, 2022 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Victoria - A victory of hope over suffering.

I photographed Victoria two weeks ago in Chisinau, Moldova. Her name means victory in Romanian, the language of Moldova. And her own life is a victory of hope over suffering.

Victoria was born with a disability and spent most of her childhood and adolescence in hospitals. When she was home, other kids were making fun of…

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Added by Eva Libre on July 20, 2022 at 11:01pm — 1 Comment

Just one day would change the world…

On Thursday, I was driving into town and spotted a Raven in the middle of the highway. As I got closer, I could see that it was hit by a car. The bird was in the middle of the lane and about three miles from home. Knowing Ravens well from living alongside a family for twenty years, I suspected it was one of the pair that lives in the…

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Added by Eva Libre on June 17, 2022 at 5:23pm — 1 Comment

Helen Keller listening to Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony".

Here's how she describes listening to #Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony" over the radio, Helen Keller wrote the following letter to the New York Symphony Orchestra in March 1924.

Dear Friends:



I have the joy of being able to tell you that, though deaf and blind, I spent a glorious hour last night listening over…

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Added by Eva Libre on June 8, 2022 at 5:02pm — 2 Comments

Max Ehrmann, Desiderata, 1927

"Go placidly amid the noise and haste,

and remember what peace

there may be in silence.

As far as possible without surrender

be on good terms with all persons.

Speak your truth quietly

and clearly;

and listen to others,

even the dull and the ignorant;

they too have their…

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Added by Eva Libre on May 23, 2022 at 1:10pm — No Comments

Yoko Ono "That's life"

You should know that life is lonely. You come out alone and you go out alone. If you know that, it will get better. Some people will love you and some won't. That's life. If you know that, it's a pretty good life.

Yoko Ono

IMAGINE PEACE

Added by Eva Libre on May 13, 2022 at 3:09pm — No Comments

Sparkling Awareness

You can sweep up the dust of a thousand ruined civilizations in this breath. You can gather the ashes of your ancestors in this breath. Whisk the DNA from all the microbes that ever swarmed the gut or swam the blood of rodent, honeybee, or leprous medieval peasant in this breath. You can…

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Added by Eva Libre on May 10, 2022 at 5:34pm — No Comments

"Today was a Difficult Day,"

"Today was a Difficult Day," said Pooh.

There was a pause.

"Do you want to talk about it?" asked Piglet.

"No," said Pooh after a bit. "No, I don't think I do."

"That's okay," said Piglet, and he came and sat beside his friend.

"What are you doing?" asked Pooh.

"Nothing, really," said Piglet. "Only, I…

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Added by Eva Libre on April 14, 2022 at 12:58pm — No Comments

Do you believe in life after delivery?

In a mother’s womb were two babies. One asked the other:

“Do you believe in life after delivery?” The other replied, “Why, of course. There has to be something after delivery. Maybe we are here to prepare ourselves for what we will be later.”

“Nonsense” said the first. “There is no life after delivery. What kind of life would…

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Added by Eva Libre on April 7, 2022 at 6:03am — No Comments

“People and the Souls Near Them” - Romania

“People and the Souls Near Them” - Romania

- photo. ©Vlad Dumitrescu



I never intended to work on a project that brings together people and animals. But people have always been my main subject, and the animals have always been around. I have always found them alongside people in moments of rest or work, but they were always there, almost as life partners. This topic quickly began to attract me. Portraits together or simple moments of life gatherd in a collection that…

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Added by Eva Libre on April 6, 2022 at 1:09pm — 1 Comment

A great message

Art is a universal language. Through our understanding of that language, we connect ourselves with each other, and come together, even without knowing that we do. It is not one artist who has a great message. By connecting ourselves to each other, we become part of the greatness.

~ Yoko Ono

Added by Eva Libre on March 30, 2022 at 11:07am — No Comments

Hey God.

Me: Hey God.

God: Hey John.

Me: What should I say to somebody who is about to die?

God: The exact same things you should say to everybody else whenever you have a chance.

Me: What’s that?

God:   I love you.

          I love you so.

          I forgive you.

          I’m…

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Added by Eva Libre on March 20, 2022 at 5:38pm — No Comments

After the war

after the war

     we will wring our hands

and wonder how humans

could show so little humanity

to each other

after the war

     we will tie ribbons on trees

and shake our heads whenever we

see pictures of hospitals that were

bombed into inhospitable ruins

after the war

     we…

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Added by Eva Libre on March 10, 2022 at 8:32pm — No Comments

that's what grief is ~POEM~

death is the wildfire

that rips through

the forest of our life

it scorches the ground

it chars the the rocks

it engulfs the trees

death is the fire

that comes to consume

everything…

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Added by Eva Libre on March 4, 2022 at 5:00pm — No Comments

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We light a candle for all our friends and members that have passed to the other side.

Gone from our life and forever moved into our heart. ~ ❤️ ~


Grant us peace
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Ireland NOV 2020
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"Love, acceptance and inclusion. Grant us peace."

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