Zeitgeist

Inside a composer's mind...

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

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

Extraordinary Stories in Art & Literature...

Life as an artist...

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

Words - Art - Photography

Visual Arts...

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

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

... between words ...

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

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

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

Living a dog's life in a dogs 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

Facts, data and analytics about biomedical matters

The Arts

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

"Do Sculptures Think?"

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

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

Science, Art & Poetry

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...

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

Life Under Water...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

...exploring the artistic frontiers...

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

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

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

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

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

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