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I just got back from my annual mammogram and it looks like…

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  I’m good to go for another year!!! 16 CommentsChronological   Reverse   Threaded delete reply starfishred wrote on Dec 15, ’10 GOOODDDD edit delete reply lauritasita wrote on Dec 15, ’10 Yeah, baby!!! delete reply jadedruid wrote on Dec 15, ’10 Excellent. Now roll them up from the squishing and eventually they will plump back up into something normally shaped. I had to make you smile besides a clean bill of health delete reply tesstruhartz wrote on Dec 15, ’10 good to hear edit … Continue reading →

Art Sunday: A Celebration of Judaism in Art

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The Feast of the Rejoicing of The Law at the Synagogue in Leghorn, Italy. 1850. Oil on canvas. The Jewish Museum, New York, by Soloman Alexander Hart. Like other 19th century British artists, he traveled, visited Italy, and documented the sites he saw. In this romanticized canvas, he depicts a procession during the celebration of Simhat Torah in the Synagogue at Leghorn, whose lavish interior he observed while traveling through Italy. Simhat Torah, The Procession of The Law.   Soloman Alexander Hart 1806-1881 was a … Continue reading →

Poetry Wednesday 11/28/2012: It’s The Journey That’s Important

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It’s The Journey That’s Important… By John McLeod Life, sometimes so wearying Is worth its weight in gold The experience of traveling Lends a wisdom that is old Beyond our ‘living memory’ A softly spoken prayer: “It’s the journey that’s important, Not the getting there!” Ins and outs and ups and downs Life’s road meanders aimlessly? Or so it seems, but somehow Leads us where we need to be, And being simply human We oft question and compare…. “Is the journey so important Or the … Continue reading →

Poetry Wednesday: Late Autumn in Venice by Delmore Schwartz

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Late Autumn In Venice by Delmore Schwartz The city floats no longer like a bait To hook the nimble darting summer days. The glazed and brittle palaces pulsate and radiate And glitter. Summer’s garden sways, A heap of marionettes hanging down and dangled, Leaves tired, torn, turned upside down and strangled: Until from forest depths, from bony leafless trees A will wakens: the admiral, lolling long at ease, Has been commanded, overnight — suddenly –: In the first dawn, all galleys put to sea! Waking … Continue reading →

Theater Thursday: An American Tragedy

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An American Tragedy is an American novel by Theodore Dreiser. Here is a novel that deals with issues ahead of its time. Published in 1925, the book is the story of a young man, Clyde Griffiths, whose troubles with women and the law take him from his religious upbringing in Kansas City to the fictional town of Lycurgus, New York. Among Clyde’s love interests are the materialistic Hortense Briggs, the charming farmer’s daughter Roberta Alden, and the aristocratic Sondra Finchley. The book is naturalistic in … Continue reading →

Anoushka Shankar, The Concert for George Harrison

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Anoushka Shankar, the twenty one year old daughter of sitar virtuoso, Ravi Shankar, has been playing music since she was a small child. She is considered a true prodigy, accomplished on the piano as well as the sitar. Anoushka was born in London and grew up in California. She began studying the sitar with her father and the great masters of Indian music who preceeded her. Since 1995, she performed both with Ravi Shankar and as a solo artist and has received five-star reviews throughout … Continue reading →

The Mellotron

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The mellotron was probably the most unique instrument ever developed in the history of music. A more exact description of it would be an electromechanical polyphonic keyboard musical instrument. It was originally developed and built in Birmingham, England in the early 1960s. It was very similar to its ancester called the Chamberlin. It was developed by Harry Chamberlin in 1946. It had a piano- style keyboard. Underneath each key is a small tape deck. Each tape is pre-recorded with various musical instruments or special effects. … Continue reading →

A Cure For The Common Cold

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Think Zinc ! I did it with COLD-EEZE. Yep. I was putting my son on the school bus one day. One of the other moms that was with me noticed that I had a mean cough that I had for a few weeks. Usually, when I get a cold, I develop first a sore throat for a few days, followed by a couple of sneezes. By then, the sore throat is gone, but then I’m left with a cough that may last for weeks or … Continue reading →

Poetry Wednesday: If Dogs Run Free

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                   If Dogs Run Free by Bob Dylan If dogs run free, then why not we Across the swooping plain ? My ears hear a symphony Of two mules, trains and rain The best is always yet to come That’s what they explain to me Just do your thing, you’ll be king If dogs run free. If dogs run free, why not me Across the swamp of time ? My mind weaves a symphony And tapestry of rhyme Oh, winds which rush my … Continue reading →

Theater Thursday 05/01/08: A Hatful of Rain

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Steve McQueen made his debut on Broadway in 1955, by replacing Ben Gazzara in the play A Hatful of Rain. This is probably the first time that the issue of drug addiction is handled on stage or screen. In 1951 a young Steve McQueen was contemplating entering ’tile setting school’ (through the assistance provided to him under the GI bill), but his plans took a change of direction when a girl he was dating took him to ‘The Neighbourhood Playhouse’, one of New York’s premier … Continue reading →