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William S. Burroughs *II 5 1914 — The Life You Give
The elder statesman of literature’s Beat Generation — and, by extension, of the American underground culture — few figures outside of the musical sphere exerted a greater influence over rock & roll than novelist William S. Burroughs. A provocative, controversial figure famed for his unique cut-up prose aesthetic, Burroughs lived the rock lifestyle years before…
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Rosa Parks *II 4 1913 — The Life You Give
Rosa Parks, born Rosa Louise McCauley, on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S.A., is the civil rights activist whose refusal to relinquish her seat on a public bus precipitated the 1955–56 Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama, which became the spark that ignited the civil rights movement in the United States. Born to parents James…
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handwriting
Even more bombastic than buildings in Manhattan, is to spot an individual on the train, in the midst of an ancient habit of Homo sapiens, known as writing with the hand (as opposed to texting with the two fingers).
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bombastic
For many thousands of years, humans have been building with some notion of what we have been knowing for very long as architecture. For the most part, the building has occurred with three key efforts in mind: being firm for durability, considering its utility, and the joy in contemplating and using it. Whether with the…
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to intentionally forget
As I mentioned not long ago, during the summer of 2023, I noticed a couple of beetroots on the counter. They were hidden from clear sight, thus it is safe to say that I forgot them, or that they went (or stayed) unnoticed for some time. It is for me impossible to know how long…
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Felix Mendelssohn *II 3 1809 — The Life You Give
Felix Mendelssohn, born Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, on February 3 1809, in Hamburg, Germany, is, as composer, pianist, musical conductor, and teacher, one of the most-celebrated figures of the early Romantic period. In his music Mendelssohn largely observed Classical models and practices while initiating key aspects of Romanticism—the artistic movement that exalted feeling and the…
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