Celebration Day
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a short love dissection / Twenty-one days with my Father – 2026
Tears flow from love Smiles widen through love Laughing erupts out of love Silence spreads in u-turned love Perseverance lives love Countenance dresses love, if it manages not to mask love Had I Served You Coffee — in process, content, notes
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Maurice Ravel *III 7 1875 — The Life You Give
Maurice Ravel, born Joseph-Maurice Ravel, on March 7 1875, Ciboure, France, was the composer of Swiss-Basque descent, noted for his musical craftsmanship and perfection of form and style in such works as Boléro (1928), Pavane pour une infante défunte (1899; Pavane for a Dead Princess), Rapsodie espagnole (1907), the ballet Daphnis et Chloé (first performed…
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Gabriel García Márquez *III 6 1927 — La Vida Que Das / The Life You Give
Gabriel José García Márquez nació en Aracataca, Colombia, en 1928. Cursó estudios secundarios en San José a partir de 1940 y finalizó su bachillerato en el Colegio Liceo de Zipaquirá, el 12 de diciembre de 1946. Se matriculó en la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad Nacional de Cartagena el 25 de febrero de 1947,…
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I would refuse elsewhere / Twenty-one days with my Father – 2026
If I were given the opportunity to do it all over again elsewhere, I would refuse. Had I Served You Coffee — in process, content, notes
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Like Father, Like Son / Twenty-one days with my Father – 2026
Emulation detailed I never wanted to be like you. Well, perhaps I ought to rephrase that. It might be quite common for a young boy to wish to be like his father, walking behind him, doing his best effort to walk like him, perhaps eat like him, drink like him, burp like him. I do…
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Antonio Vivaldi *III 4 1678 — The Life You Give
Antonio Vivaldi, born Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, on March 4 1678, in Venice, Republic of Venice [Italy], is the composer and violinist who left a decisive mark on the form of the concerto and the style of late Baroque instrumental music. Vivaldi’s main teacher was probably his father, Giovanni Battista, who in 1685 was admitted as…
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Life versus Living / Twenty-one days with my Father – 2026
She arranged materials in the shape of leaves and flowers.You planted a garden, and harvested. Had I Served You Coffee — in process, content, notes
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Breath / Twenty-one days with my Father – 2026
First Breath: Love Second Breath: Music Third Breath: Curiosity – II 2026 Had I Served You Coffee — in process
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Lou Reed *III 2 1942 — The Life You Give
Lou Reed, born March 2, 1942, in Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A., is the singer-songwriter whose place in the rock pantheon rests primarily on his role in guiding the Velvet Underground, a New York City-based quartet that produced four poor-selling but enormously influential studio albums under Reed’s direction from 1965 to 1970. Reed’s post-Velvets career, though…
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Kurt Weill *III 2 1900 — The Life You Give
Kurt Weill, born March 2, 1900, in Dessau, Germany, is the composer who created a revolutionary kind of opera of sharp social satire in collaboration with the writer Bertolt Brecht. Weill studied privately with Albert Bing and at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Berlin with Engelbert Humperdinck. He gained some experience as an opera…
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Bedřich Smetana *III 2 1824 — The Life You Give
Bedřich Smetana, born March 2, 1824, in Leitomischl, Bohemia, Austrian Empire [now Litomyšl, Czech Republic], was composer of operas and symphonic poems, and founder of the Czech national school of music. He was the first truly important Bohemian nationalist composer. Smetana studied music under his father, an amateur violinist. He early took up piano under…
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vulnere ability / Twenty-one days with my Father – 2026
vulnisvulnerevulnere ablein need not of protectionfor of nature all is safe Vulnerability happensVulnerability is not instructedNeither punished onto the soulnor out of the bodynor fed through formative milkbut heresomething insidecombined with your first arm lullsit happened Absorbedyear after yearin conviction, deepthat you only utter truthnot belieftruthout of your mouthfrom the movement of your handswhether sitting…
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Frédéric Chopin *III 1 1810 — The Life You Give
Frédéric Chopin, Fryderyk Franciszek Szopen, on March 1, 1810, in Żelazowa Wola, near Warsaw, Duchy of Warsaw [now in Poland], was the composer and pianist of the Romantic period, best known for his solo pieces for piano and his piano concerti. Although he wrote little but piano works, many of them brief, Chopin ranks as…
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Gioachino Rossini *II 29 1792 — The Life You Give
Gioachino Rossini, born Gioachino Antonio Rossini, on February 29 1792, in Pesaro, Papal States [Italy], is the composer noted for his operas, particularly his comic operas, of which The Barber of Seville (1816), Cinderella (1817), and Semiramide (1823) are among the best known. Of his later, larger-scale dramatic operas, the most widely heard is William…
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Rudolf Steiner *II 27 1861 — The Life You Give
Rudolf Steiner, born February 27 1861, in Kraljević, Austria, was a spiritualist, lecturer, and founder of anthroposophy, a movement based on the notion that there is a spiritual world comprehensible to pure thought but accessible only to the highest faculties of mental knowledge. Attracted in his youth to the works of Goethe, Steiner edited that…
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