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High Art & Excellence

Providing a direct line of "translated" public health science to you, so you can take action for your community's health

"A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart." ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Extraordinary Stories in Art & Literature...

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

A place to explore the way the short story works.

"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent." ~ Victor Hugo

... between words ...

History in Pictures

Because Democracy Matters...

...exploring the artistic frontiers...

Inside a composer's mind...

"Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful." — John Maeda

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

Food History in Art ~ We are what we eat...

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

Life Under Water...

"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time." -- Thomas Merton

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

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

Love, Loss, Passion and survival...

The reader is my notebook

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

The Arts

Words - Art - Photography

Music ~ Poetry ~ Art

The Tao Te Ching, written around 400 BC by Lao Tzu. Translated by James Legge.

Stories from the Bowl!

Thoughtfulness and other Dangerous Exercises...

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. ~ Charles Darwin

“What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms.” ~ Kobayashi Issa

Artistic Temptations...

Portraits of Humanity... "Everyone carries through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as their shadow.” — W.H. Auden

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

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

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

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...

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

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.

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

The Art of Living

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

Adventures in Art

Science Photography & Art

"Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know." ~ Lao Tsu

Photography, Music & Art - “Poetry is us…our voices in the street, like a photograph of the darkness and the light.”

Visual Arts...

Art as Metaphor...

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

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