Oddities
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Either, they do not know something we know, they know something we do not know, or I do not know something we know
For years I have been enjoying looking at parrots flying and “screaming” while I sit on the porch, as much as observing their residence a block away. Often I have asked myself, why they do not get electrocuted. The title of this post is no longer relevant, as I now know why they live happily…
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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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The purpose of a broom will determine the sounds it will make, and thus the musicality one may tap into with it
One of my new brooms has arrived. Its bristles are African bassine, made from the leaf fiber of the palmyra palm.
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pinna this!
pinna – noun pin·na | \ ˈpi-nə \plural pinnae\ ˈpi-ˌnē, -ˌnī \ or pinnas• a projecting body part (such as a feather, wing, or fin)• the largely cartilaginous projecting portion of the external ear• conducive to the inner ear, in which, with the judgment of other body parts — in flesh and beyond it —…
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