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- Jun 26, 3:35am
 from Sheri & Bob Stritof
Today's Marriage Quote
Sophie Keller
"Your children will grow up much more secure in that way when they see their parents as a team."
Today's Dialogue Question
Sleep
Am I willing to sacrifice a half hour of sleep so we can be together? How does my answer make me feel?
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What Tree Did You Fall From?
Do you recognize yourself?
Jul 05 to Jul 14 Fir Tree
FIR TREE (the Mysterious)
- extraordinary taste, dignity, sophisticated, loves anything beautiful, moody, stubborn,
tends to egoism but cares for those close to them, rather modest, very ambitious, talented,
industrious, uncontented lover, many friends, many foes, very reliable.
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The Little Fir-Trees
by Evaleen Stein
Hey! little evergreens,
Sturdy and strong!
Summer and autumn time
Hasten along;
Harvest the sunbeams, then,
Bind them in sheaves,
Range them, and change them
To tufts of green leaves.
Delve in the mellow mold,
Far, far below,
And so,
Little evergreens, grow!
Grow, grow!
Grow, little evergreens, grow!
Up, up so airily
To the blue sky,
Lift up your leafy tips
Stately and high;
Clasp tight your tiny cones,
Tawny and brown;
By and by, buffeting
Rains will pelt down;
By and by, bitterly
Chill winds will blow;
And so,
Little evergreens, grow!
Grow, grow!
Grow, little evergreens, grow!
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- Jul 5, 8:27pm (1 review) painting, arts, art http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:B...
Monday
Jul. 6, 2009
It was on this day in 1812 that Ludwig van Beethoven wrote two famous love letters to an unknown woman.
Beethoven wrote the letters from the Czech resort town of Teplitz, which his physician had recommended for his health, and there he became friends with the poet Goethe.
And over the course of two days, he wrote three letters to a mysterious woman who has come to be known as "the Immortal Beloved."
Portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven 1804 - 1805
Mähler, Willibrord Joseph (1778 - 1860)
He wrote:
July 6, in the morning
My angel, my all, my very self -- Only a few words today and at that with pencil (with yours) ... Oh God, look out into the beauties of nature and comfort your heart with that which must be -- Love demands everything and that very justly -- thus it is to me with you, and to your with me. ... We shall surely see each other soon; moreover, today I cannot share with you the thoughts I have had during these last few days touching my own life -- If our hearts were always close together, I would have none of these. My heart is full of so many things to say to you -- ah -- there are moments when I feel that speech amounts to nothing at all -- Cheer up -- remain my true, my only treasure, my all as I am yours. The gods must send us the rest, what for us must and shall be --
Your faithful LUDWIG
Evening, Monday, July 6
... Wherever I am, there you are also -- I will arrange it with you and me that I can live with you. What a life!!! thus!!! without you -- pursued by the goodness of mankind hither and thither -- which I as little want to deserve as I deserve it -- Humility of man towards man -- it pains me -- and when I consider myself in relation to the universe, what am I and what is He -- whom we call the greatest -- and yet -- herein lies the divine in man -- I weep when I reflect that you will probably not receive the first report from me until Saturday - Much as you love me -- I love you more -- But do not ever conceal yourself from me -- good night -- As I am taking the baths I must go to bed -- Oh God -- so near! so far! Is not our love truly a heavenly structure, and also as firm as the vault of heaven?
Good morning, on July 7
Oh God, why must one be parted from one whom one so loves. And yet my life in V is now a wretched life -- Your love makes me at once the happiest and the unhappiest of men -- At my age I need a steady, quiet life -- can that be so in our connection? Be calm -- love me -- today -- yesterday -- what tearful longings for you -- you -- you -- my life -- my all -- farewell. Oh continue to love me -- never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved.
ever thine
ever mine
ever ours
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- Jul 5, 7:49pm (1 review) flowers, photo http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
`Love Sonnet 130'
by William Shakespeare
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare
Rose Garden, Summer Solstice
by Carolyn Miller
Everyone here believes that the roses
are blooming only for them, there where the air
by the formal beds is layered with the scent
of roses. From deep in their flushed and darkening hearts
pour odors of lemons and pepper, apricots, honey,
vanilla and myrrh and musk and semen, apples and quince,
raspberries and wine and ocean, the faint
scent of blood and the fragrance of death and the breath
of the life we are living now, in this place
where the roses are blooming for each of us, alone.
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"Rose Garden, Summer Solstice" by Carolyn Miller, from Light, Moving.
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- Thomas More - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Jul 5, 7:27pm (2 reviews) history, literature, politics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_More
Monday
July 6
2009
It was on this day in 1535 that Sir Thomas More was beheaded in the Tower of London for refusing to recognize his longtime friend King Henry VIII as the head of the Church. Thomas More was a barrister, a scholar, and a writer. He was the author of Utopia (1516), a controversial novel about an imaginary island named Utopia, where society was based on equality for all people. It is from this novel that we get our word "utopia."
Sir Thomas More was a champion of King Henry VIII and helped him write rebuttals to Martin Luther's attacks on Henry. More presented sound theological arguments, and he also said things like, "Come, do not rage so violently, good father; but if you have raved wildly enough, listen now, you pimp," and (also about Luther): "If he proceeds to play the buffoon in the manner in which he has begun, and to rave madly, if he proceeds to rage with calumny, to mouth trifling nonsense, to act like a raging madman, to make sport with buffoonery, and to carry nothing in his mouth but bilge-water, sewers, privies, filth and dung."
Thomas More was a staunch Catholic, and so for a while, he and King Henry were both aligned against Protestantism, and Henry made More his Lord Chancellor. But then Henry decided to break with the Church and declare himself Supreme Head of the English Church, and More refused to sign an oath recognizing Henry above the rest of the Church. Finally Henry had More beheaded.
Robert Bolt wrote the play A Man For All Seasons about the life of Sir Thomas More. It debuted in London in 1960, and in 1966, it was made into a movie starring Paul Scofield and Orson Welles.
In A Man For All Seasons, More says, "I do none harm, I say none harm, I think none harm. And if this be not enough to keep a man alive, in good faith I long not to live."
Utopia (1516)
I must say, extreme justice is an extreme injury: for we ought not to approve of those terrible laws that make the smallest offences capital,
nor of that opinion of the Stoics that makes all crimes equal; as if there were no difference to be made between the killing a man and the taking his purse, between which, if we examine things impartially, there is no likeness nor proportion.
God has commanded us not to kill, and shall we kill so easily for a little money?
* Ch. 1 : Discourses of Raphael Hythloday, of the Best State of a Commonwealth
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- Frida Kahlo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Jul 5, 7:14am
 (7 reviews) arts, mexican http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida_Kahlo
___Frida Kahlo ___
(July 6, 1907 - July 13, 1954)
born Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón was an internationally popular Mexican painter. She painted using vibrant colors in a style that was influenced by indigenous cultures of Mexico and European influences including Realism, Symbolism, and Surrealism. Many of her works are self-portraits that symbolically express her own pain and sexuality. Kahlo was married to Mexican muralist Diego Rivera.
QUOTES
* A little while ago, not much more than a few days ago, I was a child who went about in a world of colors, of hard and tangible forms. Everything was mysterious and something was hidden, guessing what it was was a game for me. If you knew how terrible it is to know suddenly, as if a bolt of lightning elucidated the earth. Now I live in a painful planet, transparent as ice; but it is as if I had learned everything at once in seconds.
o Letter to Alejandro Gómez Arias, (1926-09-29
* I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
o Letter to Ella Wolfe, "Wednesday 13," 1938,
My Grandparents, My Parents and I, 1936
Broken Column
- Jul 5, 4:59am
Saturday,
July 4, 2009
Precious freedom
Freedom is what makes the very best possibilities possible. It is truly a treasure that nothing else can replace.
Freedom does not guarantee any specific result, and that is in fact its beauty. Instead, freedom gives you the priceless opportunity to create your own results.
Freedom taps into the awesome power of each unique individual. Freedom is the fertile ground from which magnificent achievements spring forth with unceasing vigor.
The demands of freedom are great. To live with freedom requires effort and discipline, commitment and sacrifice.
Yet the rewards of freedom are even greater. For in freedom you truly become the best you can be.
Resolve today, and every day, to make the most of the precious freedom that is yours.
-- Ralph Marston
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- Jul 5, 4:31am (1 review) painting, arts, art http://www.artdaily.org/imagenes/2009/07...
The director of the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Javier Viar, and museum curator, Ana observe the guest work "Boy with Cherries" by Edouard Manet.
BILBAO.- The Bilbao Museum of Fine Arts presented its 27th guest work, the piece is titled "Boy with Cherries" by Edouard Manet (París, 1832-1883). This is a simply composed portrait, but of great quality and shows the artist's expression. Manet was a fundamental figure in the transition between Realism and Impressionism. Manet knew how to introduce new themes and techniques which confronted him with academic art.
The Boy with Cherries hides the tragic destiny the model had. Alexandre, a humble youngster, who helped Manet clean brushes and occasionally posed for him, ended up committing suicide at age 15, in the painter's studio on Lavoisier Street. Profoundly affected by the death of his assistant, Manet finished the painting in a studio on Victoire Street, where he had moved after what had happened.
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- Jul 5, 4:26am (1 review) painting, impressionism, art, realism, boy http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:E...
Manet, Edouard
Knabe mit den Kirschen 1858-1859
" . . . for not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love."
Charles Dickens
Dombey and Son
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- Mark Twain quotations - Cats
- Jul 4, 9:43pm (5 reviews) cats, mark-twain http://www.twainquotes.com/Cats.html
Mark Twain's cats
..the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn't, and said a person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.
-Tom Sawyer Abroad
Mark Twain's cats "Fast Asleep"
photo by Elmira photographer
Elisha M. VanAken, 1887
Mark Twain's cats "Wide Awake"
photo by Elmira photographer
Elisha M. VanAken, 1887
[Photos from the Dave Thomson collection]
When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.
- "An Incident," Who Is Mark Twain?
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- Jul 4, 9:38pm (1 review) quotes http://www.twainquotes.com/poolcats.jpg
I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl you love, of course.
- quoted in Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field, Fisher
One of them likes to be crammed into a corner-pocket of the billiard table--which he fits as snugly as does a finger in a glove and then he watches the game (and obstructs it) by the hour, and spoils many a shot by putting out his paw and changing the direction of a passing ball.
- Letter to Mable Larkin Patterson, October 2, 1908
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