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⇔ A Child’s Christmas in Wales⇐
◊ A Refusal To Mourn The Death, By Fire, Of A Child In London by Dylan Thomas, accompanied by some pictures of Thomas and the part of Wales where he grew up ↓
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Adrian Albert Mole is the fictional protagonist in a series of books by English author Sue Townsend (1946-2014). The character first appeared (as Nigel) in a BBC Radio 4 play in 1982. The books are written in the form of a diary, with some additional content such as correspondence. The […]
¤ Edward Lear [1812-1888] There was an Old Man with a beard, Who said, «It is just as I feared!— Two Owls and a Hen, four Larks and a Wren, Have all built their nests in my beard.»
•→ http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/learwk.html
∇ «The Duck and the Kangaroo» […]
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” [1854 – 1900] “Everything in moderation, including moderation.” ♥ The Happy Prince ←
There is a statue of a gold prince in the middle of a really unhappy town. Then a swallow comes to sit on the statues plinth. Then the swallow sees the happy […]
• There’s this amazing site on the Net . . . ⇒
It offers a hell of a lot of readers for the wee ones. The titles have been arranged in three categories: young children, older children & young adults. They’re all lushly illustrated and some of them include audio support. […]
Aesop was an Ancient Greek fabulist or story teller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop’s Fables⇐. Although his existence remains uncertain and no writings by him survive, numerous tales credited to him were gathered across the centuries and in many languages in a storytelling tradition that continues to this day.
¤ Watch & […]
•→ ‘SKELETON WOMAN AND THE HUNTER’ [Hopis’ legend]
♦ This Inuit legend tells of an unlikely love story between a young fisherman and a ghoul of the sea. A beautiful, hand drawn animation, directed by Edith Pieperhoff, based on a short story by Clarissa Pinkola Estes ↓
Skeleton Woman […]
These fanciful, sometimes brutal tales, revel in the art of storytelling. The underlying suggestion of the Arabian Nights is that a fantastically precious jewel exists which, when it comes into contact with people, actually changes them. The jewel is the magnificently powerful art of story. There may not be any […]
¤ Robin Skynner & John Cleese: LIFE and how to survive it [1993]
The Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing – [excerpts]
Robin: …I like the idea of a Greek psychologist called Charis Katakis. She’s taken a word we’re familiar with –‘myth’– and given it a wider meaning. […]
Born in Ballinasloe in County Galway, Ireland, Tomás Ó Cárthaigh grew up in Offaly and currently lives and works in Tullamore in the north of Co. Offaly. Writing for Tomás is a passion, he was the winner of the Readings from the Pallet festival in Banagher in 2010, and also featured at the […]
«EARLY ON A rainy Sunday afternoon in November a man was hurrying down Third Avenue, past closed and barred florist shops and newsstands, his hands stuffed into his pockets and his head bent against the wind…»
Set in the 1980s against the backdrop of a swiftly gentrifying Manhattan, David Leavitt‘s […]
¤ The Grasping Hand The modern democratic state pillages its productive citizens [Winter 2010]
To assess the unprecedented scale that the modern democratic state has attained in Europe, it is useful to recall the historical kinship between two movements that emerged at its birth: classical liberalism and anarchism. Both were motivated by the […]
¤ Alexandra Horowitz: ‘Inside of a dog’ ⇓
In Inside of a Dog (What Dogs See, Smell and Know), Alexandra Horowitz evokes the dog’s perspective by interweaving the science of dog cognition and perception with personal reflections on her own dog’s behavior. Ranging from what it might be like to […]
_ Some links to grace & beauty . . .
¤ Yasmina’s Joy of Belly Dancing – Belly Dance History ←
¤ Shopping for outfit & costumes⇐
◊ Sword Dance & DanzArabia →
•→ Arabic Belly Dance – Sara Guirado [The Professional] 2011⇐
◊ Zaheea […]
A few extracts from Laurie Anderson‘s Stories form the Nerve Bible.
•→ On The Way To Jerusalem ⇐
There was a devout nun in the XVth century who decided to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem; and she belonged to an order that wore bags over their heads. And the mother superior […]
«I had just learned to smoke (cigarettes and grass), and I was excited about it. I had always had asthma and couldn’t smoke. One day I was walking down the street and someone blew a puff in my face from a passing cigarette on a fall day, which is always the worst season. […]
The first track from the album City Of Light, by Bill Laswell. It was released Jun 17, 1997 on the Sub Rosa label. In conjunction with the spiritually-infused spoken lines of Lori Carson, Laswell and his crew unearth rhythms seared from volcanic chasms, old tongues, and primitive civilizations.
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¤ Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra ⇐
♦ ‘Want It Back’ ↓
Hearts on a stringLike an older fashioned phone canBang, ringy-ring and you think you’re gonna get someThing you can bring to a party at your wake notThinking of the thing that you pay back when […]
¤ Alison Krauss ◊ ‘Lay My Burden Down’ ↓
Gonna lay my burden down – lay my body in the groundCold clay against my skin but I don’t care at all
Can’t seem to find my piece of mind so with the earth I’ll lay entwinedSix feet underground – my feet are warm and […]
Award-winning musician, songwriter, and poet DiFranco ⇑ chronicles her rise to fame with engaging candor. Fending for herself by age 15, she survived each unusual day with ingenuity and perseverance while pursuing her education and musical passion. She performed whenever possible in coffee houses, clubs, and other venues, developing an eclectic sound […]
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