Dangerous Poems

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

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

Inside a composer's mind...

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

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

"May every living thing, young or old, weak or strong, living near or far, known or unknown, living or departed or yet unborn, may every living thing be full of bliss." ~ Anonymous

Art for Polymaths...

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

The reader is my notebook

A place to explore the way the short story works.

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

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

Because Democracy Matters...

Extraordinary Stories in Art & Literature...

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

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

Words - Art - Photography

... between words ...

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

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

"Do Sculptures Think?"

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

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

Music ~ Poetry ~ Art

Artistic Temptations...

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.

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

Visual Arts...

Art as Metaphor...

...exploring the artistic frontiers...

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

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

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

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

The Arts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thoughtfulness and other Dangerous Exercises...

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

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

Everything and more...