Sila Blume
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Since childhood, and cane before sugar
chewing on these, extracting their juice, is much more about the memory than about my current understanding of joyful eating Memories can be more true to perception than to the actual event referencing the memory. Today I used a memory as a shield of honor. While I can not refer to my father as having…
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A day in a shuar farm, for a chicken, rice, and sugar
When visiting a farm owned by the shuar, they ask that one brings a small contribution, consisting of a whole chicken, rice, and sugar. I understand this as a type of tradition in trade, as a form of gratitude, as a form of support for the farm, and, perhaps, mostly as a form of unity…
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Samuel Barber *III 9 1910 — The Life You Give
Early years Barber was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, the son of Marguerite McLeod (née Beatty) and Samuel LeRoy Barber. At a very early age, Barber became profoundly interested in music, and it was apparent that he had great musical talent and ability. At the age of nine he wrote to his mother: Dear Mother:…
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Ornette Coleman *III 9 1930 — The Life You Give
Ornette Coleman, born Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman, on March 9, 1930, in Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.A., is the jazz saxophonist, composer, and bandleader who was the principal initiator and leading exponent of free jazz in the late 1950s. Coleman began playing alto, then tenor saxophone as a teenager and soon became a working musician in…
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Anselm Kiefer *III 8 1945 — The Life You Give
Anselm Kiefer, born March 8, 1945, in Donaueschingen, Germany, is the painter who became one of the most prominent figures in the Neo-Expressionist art movement of the late 20th century. Kiefer abandoned his law studies at the University of Freiburg in 1966 to pursue art. He subsequently studied at art academies in Freiburg, Karlsruhe, and…
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Gary Numan *III 8 1958 — The Life You Give
Gary Numan is an influential English singer, composer, and musician. Most widely known for his chart-topping 1979 hits “Are ‘Friends’ Electric?” (when in Tubeway Army) and “Cars”, Numan achieved his peak of mainstream popularity in the late 70s and early 80s but maintains a loyal cult following. Numan, whose signature sound consists of heavy synthesizer…
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a flower
Where there is a bar, there has been a powderwhere there is the powder, there has been a seedwhere there is a seed, there has been fleshwhere there is flesh, there is a fruitwhere there is a fruit, there is a podwhere there is a pod, there has been a flower
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