Culture
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Please, allow me some criticism on etiquette
Is it truly necessary to chew gum while on stage at the opening ceremony for the Ryder Cup 2021?
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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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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…
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The Soul is unbound
Ever since we have been traveling this globe, our exposure to the exotic or merely to the other (individual, culture, tradition, belief), has left us impressed, influenced, at least touched. Henry F. Gilbert was born 1868 in Somerville, a town in the Boston metropolitan area where I lived in the mid 1980s. He attended the…
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The Surreal Suppers — India, Music, Food, Health (part one)
India — Music, Food, Health was the third episode of the Surreal Suppers, an ongoing series in the Aristipposian Poet club on the Clubhouse app.The AP club was formed to promote a variety of activities that are to focus on the importance of humans serving humanity through the noble act of being hospitable by sharing…
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Despite the sadness, we will celebrate India
On Clubhouse: https://www.joinclubhouse.com/event/M5YK7NV4
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Springing
Paying attention, even by sheer chance, will gently or abruptly reveal the smallness of things that like to go unnoticed. Photographic captures will retrospectively reveal the unnoticed, and be a reminders of how much has gone unnoticed still.
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Why do you eat? How do you eat? Join our conversation…
Join us in a conversation on Clubhouse with Dr. SiriChand Khalsa and Dr. Jennifer Love on the importance of food and eating. https://www.joinclubhouse.com/event/MR0Y2BXN
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Blindness, Incompletion, and Wisdom — Tchaikovsky’s Opera “Iolanta” [Event]
Born blind, Princess Iolanta lives protected from the outside world, while unaware of her impairment — until love reveals her limitations. Join Sila Blume to discuss incompleteness, and wisdom, based on Peter I. Tchaikovsky’s last opera, on Thursday, March 4 2021, at 4:30 pm EST, in Clubhouse. Please, go to https://www.joinclubhouse.com/event/MzapOQZp
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Celebration Day — twenty-three
Today is handwriting day.
Sila Blume 