Human Condition
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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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Having a coffee, in San Francisco
Tears, just by realizing that traveling is not truly about seeing new places, not about knowing a different city. It is an unpredictable form of discovering more of the self, adjusting the self, exposing whatever is to be exposed for the self. Even through the simple process of brewing a cup of coffee with different…
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On 12 June 1964, eight defendants were sentenced to life imprisonment — one of them being Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela, at the Rivonia Trial I am the First Accused. I hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Arts and practised as an attorney in Johannesburg for a number of years in partnership with Oliver Tambo. I am a convicted prisoner serving five years for leaving the country without a permit and for inciting people to…
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Possible physiology of not breaking fast
Before day one, the rush of all becomes a perpetual surrounding. What happens when the rushing stops? From day one onward, there has been the physical and mental state of intaking nourishments. It seems to be an existential need. Seems unavoidable.Then there is an apparently seldom visible space between automatism and obsession, between invested joy…
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“cocinar”
Revisiting this picture I took at an investigative project exhibition shown at the Zapopan Art Museum, a widened understanding took place in thinking of food in its wide range of function and meaning. Certainly the personally poetic, scientific, cultural, or unreflected grasp of words, in addition to the possibility of having three or more languages…
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Nelson Mandela *VII 18 1918 / The Life You Give
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born in Transkei, South Africa on July 18, 1918. His father was Hendry Mphakanyiswa of the Tembu Tribe. Mandela himself was educated at University College of Fort Hare and the University of Witwatersrand where he studied law. He joined the African National Congress in 1944 and was engaged in resistance against…
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