"When the violin can forgive the past it starts singing."

                               (Quote from When the Violin by poet Hafiz with graphic supplied by…

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"Everybody Wants to Rule the World" by Tears for Fears live in Belgium.

(YouTube video shared by Ogmuk)

 

Freedom can mean different things to different people depending on their circumstances. Some have said the most importance circumstance is social. Others believe the political or spiritual is more important.…

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Cover of Illuminated Corners, Collected Essays and Articles Volume 1, by Aberjhani. 

“The duality of inwardness and the outside world: that is the one essential existential condition of…

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       “What hits you affects you and wakes you up more than what pleases you.”

            --Michel de Montaigne, On the Art of Conversation

I generally do not write about private matters such as this in public forums but I’m…

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Here are ten short extracts from my last collection of poetry, titled “Five Years and Counting. A Journey into the Mind of Soul Poetry.”

For more information about the book, visit http://www.fiveyearsandcounting.com, Amazon (US, UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, France), McNally Robinson Booksellers, Lulu.com, iBookstore, and Barnes & Noble NOOK…

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Singer Michael Jackson August 29, 1959-June 25, 2009







When a friend expressed her sadness over the recent death of Michael Jackson, she was surprised to hear me say I never paid much attention to his music or videos. I like different kinds of music but in the past few years noticed that I particularly appreciate classical music and modern New Age music with strong classical influence. Then my friend said Jackson was… Continue

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I have to admit that I’m actually having more fun going through the different blogs and picking out favorite quotes than I did reading them the first time around. Guess that’s one major bonus of this particular celebration. And yes, I admit I do love it when I surprise myself that way :- )



So here’s part 2 of… Continue

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Quote Appreciation Day here at CTI is supposed to start tomorrow on the 10th but I figure it's midnight somewhere by now :-) so I'm getting started because I’m going to be posting quotes from different members blogs and comments in at least three parts. I can honestly say that I have enjoyed… Continue

Presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama announces his candidacy in his hometown of Springfield, Illinois.





From the response around the internet to the Barack Obama critici who stated, “He’s a poet, not a fighter,” apparently I was not the only one stunned by the offensive words. The following are a second batch of quotes from the poet who would be president. They begin with a prose excerpt from his memoir, “Dreams from My…

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(Obama photograph by Annie Leibovitz )





Watching the NBC evening news on Sunday (Feb 24, 2008) I was more than a little shocked when a critic of U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama stated that Obama had no chance of winning against the Republicans in his bid for the White House for this reason: “He’s a poet, not a…

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"The more I grow
as an artist,
the more I think I become
like my father as an artist.
The more I diversify,
the more I become like my father,
which is true to who he was."

--Musician Ziggy Marley, son of the late
singer-prophet Bob Marley.