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Seven days later — Japanese Cherry Flowers
on April 20th on April 13th
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Recurring Music Series: Symphony, Mahler #3
Recurrence brings intentionality:* One discovers more than the first time* One contemplates and deciphers the varied interpretations by conductor and orchestra* The state of the individual listener will change through having eaten garlic or no garlic, through joy or suffering, or based on a peaceful sleep or a difficult and aggressive conversation beforehand, thus changing…
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Germaine Tailleferre *IV 19 1892 / The Life You Give
Of significance as the sole female member of the post-World War I group of French composers known as Les Six, Germaine Tailleferre remained a prominent — if somewhat inaccessible — musician long after the disintegration of that group during the middle and late 1920s. She left behind, at her death in 1983 at the age…
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— revisiting the blueberry-basil-cornbread
Many European and US-American years went by, without me fasting. Each morning I had some form of breakfast, light or intense, as celebration or as mere quotidian digestive flow. However, moments during these few years, in which I felt physically and mentally filled, kept telling me that some cleansing was needed. Feeling filled does not…
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Charlie Chaplin *IV 16 1889 / The Life You Give
Charlie Chaplin, byname of Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, (born April 16, 1889, London, England, is the comedian, producer, writer, director, and composer who is widely regarded as the greatest comic artist of the screen and one of the most important figures in motion-picture history. Early life and career Chaplin was named after his father, a…
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The purpose of a broom will determine the sounds it will make, and thus the musicality one may tap into with it
One of my new brooms has arrived. Its bristles are African bassine, made from the leaf fiber of the palmyra palm.
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Possible physiology of not breaking fast
Before day one, the rush of all becomes a perpetual surrounding. What happens when the rushing stops? From day one onward, there has been the physical and mental state of intaking nourishments. It seems to be an existential need. Seems unavoidable.Then there is an apparently seldom visible space between automatism and obsession, between invested joy…
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Tulips
The lady of the house asked me if I like flowers. For this she interrupted herself during the conversation she was carrying with the cat in her arms. I answered with a friendly smile.
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Cut to taste — texture, flavor
It has become a practice — yes, a practice, as in exercising, investigating, intentional rehearsal — to use certain products for their respective qualities, more than for contributing themselves to the flavor of others, like in seasoning, marrying of flavors, and such. The leek is therefore cut for heightened possibilities of what it is, not…
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