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Thursday
“I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it’s pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.” Harry Nilsson If there’s anyone who understood Thursday better than Harry Nilsson, I can’t imagine who it Read more
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Feast and Famine
“Germany’s Children Are Starving!” by Kathe Kollwitz, 1924 Feast and famine Binge and purge Celebrate and sacrifice What goes up Is going to come back down Somebody is going to pay the price Turning the world upside-down Let them have some freedom And when you turn your back They’ll turn the whole world upside down Read more
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Genius In Our Midst: Bragg
“We’re actually recharging our batteries: me from the audience and their response, and the audience from me and my songs and ideas. We’re recharging our batteries so we can go back out there and fight the good fight, get our own little space wherever we are. I’ll do my bit, and you’ll do your bit, Read more
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Down In The Salley Gardens
A friend recently turned me on to a poem by William Butler Yeats called Down By The Salley Gardens. It was first published in 1899 in a collection called The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems. According to Wikipedia, “Oisin introduces what was to become one of his most important themes: the appeal of Read more
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A Song of Joys
O the old manhood of me, my noblest joy of all! My children and grand-children, my white hair and beard, My largeness, calmness, majesty, out of the long stretch of my life. O ripen’d joy of womanhood! O happiness at last! I am more than eighty years of age, I am the most venerable mother, Read more
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CitySketch – Delacorte Clock
“The fountain is my speech. The tulips are my speech. The grass and trees are my speech.” George Delacorte George Delacorte was born and raised in NYC where he also graduated from Columbia University and founded Dell Publishing. He became a philanthropist with a taste for whimsy, donating money to build fountains at Columbus Circle Read more
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