Paris in Spring

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

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

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

Inside a composer's mind...

Extraordinary Stories in Art & Literature...

A place to explore the way the short story works.

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

An irreverent podcast about the law

High Art & Excellence

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

Women are amazing creatures...

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

The Arts

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.

Everything and more...

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

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

Life Under Water...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

The Art of Communication ~ a Visual Journey of the Unspeakable…

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

Science, Art & Poetry

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

Art & Flow

Art for Literary Souls...

Artistic Temptations...

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

The Art of Living

Art & Design

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

Love, Loss, Passion and survival...

"A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men." - Gloria Steinem

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...

Art for Polymaths...

Art as Metaphor...

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

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

Adventures in Art

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

Thoughtfulness and other Dangerous Exercises...

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

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

Words - Art - Photography