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  • Celebration Day — twenty-six

    Many lives stay with us in spirit, memory, lessons, inspiration. Some stay with us even as measuring kingdoms. Jacqueline Mary du Pré was born in Oxford, Oxfordshire, on the twenty-sixth of January of 1945. She could have never known that she, and her year would never be forgotten, and both would become significant in the…

    January 26, 2021

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    Celebration Day, Life, Music, Personalities
    birthday celebration, cello, Elgar cello concerto, Jacqueline du Pré
    Celebration Day — twenty-six
  • Cuban Standing

    January 26, 2021

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    Fine Tobacco, Photography
    botl, cigars, Cuba, Partagás, Photography, sotl, Tobacco
    Cuban Standing
  • A presence of a somewhat relaxed past tense

    January 26, 2021

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    Nature, Photography, Poetry, Still Life
    Photography, Still Life, the poetic life, wabi sabi
    A presence of a somewhat relaxed past tense
  • Porcelain Coffee Filter

    January 25, 2021

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    Coffee, Design, Photography
    Coffee, Design, Photography, porcelain
    Porcelain Coffee Filter
  • Celebration Day — twenty-five

    Crying is truthUnexplainable TrueJust entered a room where Japanese are speakingSomething draws me to all things JapanFor yearsI listen — tones, laughs, an energy I do not understand—- listeningJust being there touched meCultures are a wonder, even before being understoodAttentive understandingor attentive without understandingA wonderBeing is trueAttentive being If you ask where tears come fromand…

    January 25, 2021

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    Celebration Day, ing form, to be, Joy, Life
    Clubhouse, crying, Culture, emotions, Japan, Life, Oddities, tears, the poetic life
  • Mirror Manipulations I

    January 25, 2021

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    Art, Biographical, Photography
    aesthetic, Photography, self portrait, the poetic life
    Mirror Manipulations I
  • Celebration Day — twenty-four

    We struggle, and glide in epistemological flights — intellectuals, scientists, creators, muses. Others may choose comfortable hammocks.

    January 24, 2021

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    Celebration Day
    Life, the poetic life
  • Truth

    Hunger, wanting, anger, as well as peacefulness, all seem to be what draws us again and again towards reaching, grasping, recognizing what is true.

    January 24, 2021

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    Life
    God, Life, reality, truth
  • Hudson Yards

    January 23, 2021

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    Architecture, Manhattan, New York City, New York, New York
    Architecture, Hudson Yards, Manhattan, New York, New York City, NYC, Photography
    Hudson Yards
  • Celebration Day — twenty-three

    Today is handwriting day.

    January 23, 2021

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    Celebration Day, Culture, Individuality, ing form, to be
    aesthetic, celebration, Culture, handwriting, Homo sapiens, humans, Life, personality, psychology, self
    Celebration Day — twenty-three
  • Boxes

    January 23, 2021

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    Architecture, New York, New York
    aesthetic, New York, Photography
    Boxes
  • Joy from the Past

    When an experience occurs through the palate, a unique physical and spiritual state will arise. It will sensitize memories into references of the present, and transport one back to the past. Subsequently, some otherwise unreachable memories may leave oblivion. After all, what is the organic and biological sense of memory storage, if there are no…

    January 23, 2021

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    COVID-19, Culture, Food History, Homemade, Joy, Life
    COVID-19, food, History, hummus, Joy, kitchen, Life, the poetic life
  • The Himmas Kassa Process

    lemons in salt chickpeas cinnamon, coriander, black pepper, cumin, caraway garlic and ginger added some lemon juice parsley, mint, olive oil and the chickpeas added, and pounded to a paste…

    January 22, 2021

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    Culture, Food History, Foods, Gastronomy, Mortar and Pestle, Recipes, Spices
    celebration, Culture, hummus, kitchen, Mortar and Pestle, olive oil, paradise, Photography, Recipes, Spices, the poetic life
    The Himmas Kassa Process
  • ‘unconditional love’ is a curious term, proclaimed and conceptualized in counseling sessions by many

    I simply wonder, can ‘it’ be called love if it is conditional?

    January 22, 2021

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    Animal Noble, Love
    animal, Homo sapiens, humans, Life, life coaching, Love, love therapy, unconditional love
  • Celebration Day — twenty-two

    On this day of celebration I began working last year. After the planning began, the first physical step was realized on December 31st, as I put four lemons in a salt bad. Here is to the hummus from ancient times.

    January 22, 2021

    Sila Blume

    Celebration Day, Culture, Foods, Gastronomy, Joy, Mortar and Pestle, Spices
    ancient recipes, celebration, Culture, food, garlic, himmas kassa, hummus, Irak, kitchen, Mortar and Pestle, Nutrition, olive oil, the poetic life
    Celebration Day — twenty-two
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