Freudvoll & Leidvoll

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

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

A place to explore the way the short story works.

Extraordinary Stories in Art & Literature...

Trying to stay a little curious.

... between words ...

“Life isn’t about waiting for the storms to pass ... It’s about learning how to dance in the rain." ~ Vivian Greene

Inside a composer's mind...

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

The reader is my notebook

High Art & Excellence

Thoughtfulness and other Dangerous Exercises...

Stories from the Bowl!

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

Science Photography & Art

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

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

Music ~ Poetry ~ Art

In which I share what I create. In case it helps.

"Do Sculptures Think?"

“I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.” ~ Herman Melville

Life as an artist...

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

"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding." ~ Leonardo da Vinci

I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone, which would not have happened if I had not come.” ― Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children

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

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

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

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

Victor Hugo's historical novel, first published in 1862 and considered one of the greatest in the 19th century. Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood.

my deliciously messy human body and mind.

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

...exploring the artistic frontiers...

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

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

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

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

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

Words - Art - Photography

The Art of Living

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

Science, Art & Poetry

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

Life Under Water...

The Arts

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

Extraordinary Literature and Audiobooks for Children - "The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart." ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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...

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

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