Musical Musings...

The Art of Living

Art is more important than ever in our tumultuous world. It can touch us in very powerful ways. Nature is art and artist - so is everyone of us...

"I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music." — Joan Miro

"The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between." ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

An ocean of stories from Salman Rushdie: I'll be talking about stories I’ve read or seen, true stories, tall stories, stories about me, and some I just made up.

Science, Art & Poetry

... between words ...

"A letter always seemed to me like immortality, because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend." ~ Emily Dickinson

Because Democracy Matters...

"The avant-garde is attitude, principle, set of activities, set of performances, articulatory forms, positive objects and processes." — Vladan Kuzmanovic

Living a dog's life in a dogs world...

Extraordinary Stories in Art & Literature...

A place to explore the way the short story works.

High Art & Excellence

Adventures in Art

"Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.” — Toni Morrison

Art, Poetry, Music & More... "One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words." ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life is Art...

The reader is my notebook

"Any book worth banning is a book worth reading." ~ Isaac Asimov

"I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter." ~ Blaise Pascal, 1657

A Diary...

"There was a star riding through clouds one night, and I said to the star: Consume me..." ~ Virginia Woolf

Thoughtfulness and other Dangerous Exercises...

Life Under Water...

"Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self." — W.H. Auden

Stories from the Bowl!

...exploring the artistic frontiers...

Homer's works, written around 8th century BCE, are regarded as one of the most significant works of the Western canon.

The Arts

Let's Save Our Planet And Make It A Better Place For All... We Can Do It!

Speculative fiction and more... ~ "All things are possible until they are proved impossible and even the impossible may only be so, as of now." ~ Pearl S. Buck

Life as an artist...

Everything and more...

Currently Featured: The Essays of Montaigne by Michel de Montaigne published in 1580 - Translated by Charles Cotton - Edited by William Carew Hazlitt (1877)

A Diary...

Words - Art - Photography

Life in Medicine and Science... ― “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” ― Marie Curie

Music ~ Poetry ~ Art

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music..." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Look at the lilies in the field, how they grow... they do not toil or spin...

Psychedelic Literature - "There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception." ~ Aldous Huxley

Science Photography & Art

Plato's most influential works of philosophy and political theory, authored around 375 BC.

"A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch - his virtues and greatness belong to himself.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A Diary...

Visual Arts...

Art for Polymaths...

Living between different cultures, foreign languages and invisible borders...

An artist's life in an interstellar world...