Culture
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An evolutionary observation (with a twist)
Over centuries, plants developed the ability to build defenses that would make it unpleasant for the surrounding living creatures to eat them. Those are the herbs and spices in which we find great pleasure today. Those are the same repellents that help us as preventive medicine and cure today. Did we learn to master fire…
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Pianos, Hammers & Keys
If you need the sound of music in the variety of keyboard instruments, you need to visit the new club on Clubhouse Piano, Hammers, and Keys is dedicated to sharing and promoting the masterminds composing and playing a number of keyboard instruments, like piano, organ, accordion, synthesizer, marimba, and similar. The Menu: Martha Argerich (piano)…
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Happy Birthday, Frida Kahlo!
Celebrate with us the life of who remains a popular and impressive figure, appreciated for her presence, as woman, as artist, even today — seven decades after her death. The painter Frida Kahlo was born Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón, on July 6 1907, in Coyoacán, Mexico. Join us in celebration of her wonderful…
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The Lord is a man of war
The conversations continue: on the one end the fervor in the heart of the believer speaks, and on the other is the mind trusting the insatiable need for knowing. Both seem sincere. But it troubles me that a belief seems to be intrinsically committed to combat. In celebration of the first classical music recording ever…
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The Bible Weight
One of my sketching books looks like a Bible. I stepped out of church decades ago. But today, as I was handling a couple of books, and was about to put them on top of the sketch book, all my nerves stopped my hand. Suddenly, my eyes saw this structure, and all of me recalled…
Sila Blume 