December 2011
Happy New Year !
yama-bato
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♪ ♫ Musical Flashback Friday ♪ ♫
nypl:
Today’s flashback Friday is brought to you by The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts’ Music Division: the 1895 sheet music to New Year’s Bells composed by Alf Hampton. Whether you sing it, say it or shout it - we’d like to wish everyone a safe and happy New Year’s Eve and best wishes for 2012!
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Dinu Lipatti - J S Bach corale prelude bwv 639
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fhqqxEQRRY&feature=related
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Mary Oliver - The Swan
Did you too see it, drifting, all night, on the black river?
Did you see it in the morning, rising into the silvery air -
An armful of white blossoms,
A perfect commotion of silk and linen as it leaned
into the bondage of its wings; a snowbank, a bank of lilies,
Biting the air with its black beak?
Did you hear it, fluting and whistling
A shrill dark music - like the rain pelting the trees - like a...
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L’homme n’est rien, l’oeuvre – tout
– “The man is nothing, the work - all”, Gustave Flaubert, Letter to George Sand, 1875 (via wonderfulambiguity)
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I cannot tell my story without reaching a long way back. If it were possible I...
– Hermann Hesse, Introduction to “Demian”
I highly recommend the book to all of you, it’s quite something.
(via theeeverydaymusings)
Thanks.
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O Sweet Irrational Worship
by Thomas Merton (1915 - 1968)
Wind and a bobwhite And the afternoon sun. By ceasing to question the sun I have become light, Bird and wind. My leaves sing. I am earth, earth All these lighted things Grow from my heart. A tall, spare pine Stands like the initial of my first Name when I had one. When I had a spirit, When I was on fire When this valley was Made out of fresh air You spoke my name...
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