Homo sapiens
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Edmund Burke *I.1.1729 — The Life You Give
Edmund Burke, born January 1, [Old Style], 1729, in Dublin, Ireland, was statesman, parliamentary orator, and political thinker prominent in public life from 1765 to about 1795 and important in the history of political theory. He championed conservatism in opposition to Jacobinism in Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790). Early life Burke, the son…
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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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Some need to join in
in a certain moment, at any given moment, any taken moment, there is a flow, a flow of things, a flow of a certain thing. a person walks in, watches the flow, acknowledges the very moment, and feels compelled to join in, wants to participate, has something to add, has something to take, stretches out…
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as sound to the ear, as music in the listener
As background, as instruction, or as aesthetic interest, sound is always outside of us. Sound surrounds us perpetually. Music, on the other hand, as language, as expression, as impression, as necessity, music occurs within us. Music is recognized only within the individual. Listening to notes being played on a given instrument, as informed to the…
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Dance, Dance, Dance
From pre-historic to primitive, to modern, to contemporary, and back to povera, with elegance, seduction, tribalism, or spiritualism, dance seems to be a global, perhaps universal phenomenon serving as celebration of joy or pain, to free or incarcerate body or soul. During my continuing search for causes for celebration, I came across this obscure moment…
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Life to live
Life is a push to livedays of wild, and peaceful freedomintercepted by those of imprisonmentand vice versa
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Homo ludens erectus sapiens
to write, to compose,to tell a story,while hungry in being,the individual within the self, and amongst masses– passed, current, envisioned –insignificance is not truly a word
Architecture, Baltimore, beauty, Biblioteca Vasconcelos, Books, Cite de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, Dublin, George Peabody Library, Hachioji Library at Rama Art University, libraries, Madrid, Mafra, Mafra Palace Library, Mexico, Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Monastery of St. Gall, Morgan Library and Museum, New York, New York Academy of Medicine, New York Public Library, Old Library, Paris, Prag, Rio de Janeiro, Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading, Sant Gallen, Schwarzman Building, social, Strahov Monastery, Tokyo, Trinity College
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Contemplate, Smile, Eat, Digest, Express
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interrupted / innerupted
— interrupt: to be stopped, hindered by another person; to break someone else’s flow, uniformity, pattern, continuity; to block the actions of another — innerupted: to erupt from within, to interject one’s own state, to abruptly change oneself It is with trembling soul, anxious flesh, and curious mind that I announce the birth of an…
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Honesty is seldom naked
It is often hiding
Sila Blume 