Happy Birthday
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Happy Birthday, lieber Herr Gerhard Richter!
If the Abstract Pictures show my reality, then the landscapes and the still lives show my yearning. Gerhard Richter *February 9 1932 / painter
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Two hundred and twenty-four years ago, Schubert
Today I continue to celebrate life in details but also in the joy that adds two men to the spirit of celebratory thankfulness — music. Besides the birthday of Philip Glass, there is plenty of reason for celebrating two hundred and twenty-four years today. Franz Peter Schubert, the young man who composed the “Winterreise” (Winter…
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Celebration Day — thirty-one
No other composer, no public figure has ever played consequential roles in my life like Phillip Glass. It all began with a physical, mental, perhaps even spiritual shock in 1982, when I sat in Carnegie Hall and experienced his music for the first time. That year I moved to Boston, where, not long after that,…
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Celebration Day — twenty-seven
Celebration and gratitude have different faces, and a celebration is based on gratitudes. This spontaneous Celebration Day Series idea arose as the mere fruit of finding more and more reasons and results in celebrating the joys of life — that which has been, is, and will somehow perpetuate for as long as it inhabits and…
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Five Famous Celebrations
Betty Marion White, 1922, in Oak Park, Illinois Eartha Kitt (Eartha Mae Keith), 1927 in St, Matthews, South Carolina James Earl Jones, 1931, in Arkabutla, Mississippi Muhammad Ali (Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.), 1942, in Louisville Kentucky Michelle Obama (Michelle LaVaughn Robinson), 1964, in Chicago Illinois
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A celebration ought to be a moment of reflection, in purity, acknowledgement, gratitude.
Betty Marion White was born on this day in 1922, in Oak Park, Illinois. To celebrate this lively lady, no further comment is needed.
Sila Blume 