Homer out for a walk at Silverwood Park on May 17, 2013.
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I hope you enjoy these quotes and videos I have found while reading or viewing the Internet
One of the classic love songs, written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, and sung by one of the great singers of torch songs in the modern era, Diana Krall.
Read more →Edgar Yipsel “Yip” Harburg, April 8, 1896-March 5, 1981, was an American songwriter who wrote the lyrics for such classics as “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?,” “April in Paris,” “It’s Only a Paper Moon,” and the Broadway show, Finnan’s Rainbow, …
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We need more poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize.
Joseph Campbell
A lovely video from Motionpoems of a poem written and read by Robert Bly.
Read more →Rachel Carson warned us of the dangers of pesticides and insecticides in our environment back in the early 1960s. I remember being fogged by clouds of insecticide sprayed from the bed of a pickup truck as it wove its way between rows …
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You'd never know it/But buddy I'm a kind of poet/And I've got a lot of things I want to say/And if I'm gloomy, please listen to me/'Till it's all, all talked away
Johnny Mercer, from "One for My Baby"
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The modern hero, the modern individual who dares to heed the call and seek the mansion of that presence with whom it is our whole destiny to be atoned, cannot, indeed must not, wait for his community to cast off its slough of pride, fear, rationalized avarice, and sanctified misunderstanding. It is not society that is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse. And so every one of us shares the supreme ordeal—carries the cross of the redeemer—not in the bright moments of his tribe's great victories, but in the silences of his personal despair. 'Live,' Nietzsche tells us, 'as though the day were here.'
Joseph Campbell
This is a beautiful example of the wonderful videos of poetry created by Motionpoems, a project co-founded by local and nationally-renowned poet, Todd Boss, and animator/producer Angella Kassube. This poem is read superbly by Linnea Mohn, a professional voice actor, also from …
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