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list: names no.1

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 10:14:00 -0400

Fergus [Irish: man of vigour]
Seamus [Irish/Biblical (form of James)]
Orison [French: prayer]
Bar [Hebrew: wild]
Rosalind [English: from As You Like It]
Avalonne [English: the island paradise to which King Arthur was brought after his death]
Mathilde [French: strength in battle]
Evangeline [English: good news]
Margot [French: pearl]
Meabh [Irish: intoxicating]
Marguerite [French: daisy flower]
Francis, Fritzie [English: Frenchman]
Theodora, Teddy [English: gift of God]
Blythe [English: cheerful]
Isis [Egyptian Mythology: goddess of the sky and nature]
Astrid [Scandinavian: God’s strength]
Ramona [Spanish: counsel protection]

word of the moment: sophrosyne (σωφροσύνη)

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 09:47:00 -0400

A virtue. Moderation. mens sana in corpore sano. Healthy mind in a healthy body. Nothing at excess. Know yourself.

I have been repeating sophrosyne over and over today, and considering how I can tie it to my own life. Although it hasn’t come easily, I have come to acknowledge how simplicity and restraint- not for restraint’s sake but for a healthy and happy mind- are beautiful and applicable concepts.

+ what a graceful word. No wonder Dad spent so many years studying ancient Greek…

did you stick with me? / let me jog your memory

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:22:19 -0400

did you stick with me? / let me jog your memory

Photo

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:47:45 -0400

Happy birthday, Ella.Mack the Knife, Live in Berlin, 1960. She...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:32:00 -0400

Happy birthday, Ella.

Mack the Knife, Live in Berlin, 1960. She turns forgetting the words into improv perfection… Truly one of the best.

Today we celebrate the Queen of Jazz.Ella Fitzgerald, Duke...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:25:53 -0400

Today we celebrate the Queen of Jazz.

Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington & Benny Goodman, 1948.

Candles

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:33:00 -0400

If on your grandmother’s birthday you burn a candle

To honor her memory, you might think of burning an extra

To honor the memory of someone who never met her,

A man who may have come to the town she lived in

Looking for work and never found it.

Picture him taking a stroll one morning,

After a month of grief with the want ads,

To refresh himself in the park before moving on.

Suppose he notices on the gravel path the shards

Of a green glass bottle that your grandmother,

Then still a girl, will be destined to step on

When she wanders barefoot away from her school picnic

If he doesn’t stoop down and scoop the mess up

With the want-ad section and carry it to a trash can.

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In Paris

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:23:14 -0400

Today as we walk in Paris I promise to focus
More on the sights before us than on the woman
We noticed yesterday in the photograph at the print shop,
The slender brunette who looked like you
As she posed with a violin case by a horse-drawn omnibus
Near the Luxembourg Gardens. Today I won't linger long
On the obvious point that her name is as lost to history
As the name of the graveyard where her bones
Have been crumbling to dust for over a century.
The streets we're to wander will shine more brightly
Now that it's clear the day of her death
Is of little importance compared to the moment
Caught in the photograph as she makes her way
Through afternoon light like this toward the Seine. 
The cold rain that fell this morning has given way to sunshine.
The gleaming puddles reflect our mood
Just as they reflected hers as she stepped around them
Smiling to herself, happy that her audition
An hour before went well. After practicing scales
For years in a village whose name isn't recorded,
She can study in Paris with one of the masters.
No way of telling now how close her life
Came to the life she hoped for as she rambled,
On the day of the photograph, along the quay.
But why do I need to know when she herself,
If offered a chance to peruse the book of the future,
Might shake her head no and turn away?
She wants to focus on her afternoon, now almost gone,
As we want to focus on ours as we stand
Here on the bridge she stood on to watch
The steamers push up against the current or ease down.
This flickering light on the water as boats pass by
Is the flow that many painters have tried to capture
Without holding too still. By the time these boats arrive
Far off in the provinces and give up their cargoes,
Who knows where the flow may have carried us?
But to think now of our leaving is to wrong the moment.
We have to be wholly here as she was
If we want the city that welcomed her
To welcome us as students trained in her school
To enjoy the music as much as she did
When she didn't grieve that she couldn't stay

— Carl Dennis

nevver: You can’t get there from here

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:58:34 -0400

nevver:

You can’t get there from here

This is me yesterday. My hair is blonde again- so long black...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 09:35:15 -0400

This is me yesterday. My hair is blonde again- so long black hair.

Video

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 09:27:20 -0400

Admission to our beautiful national parks is free Monday -...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 09:10:00 -0400

Admission to our beautiful national parks is free Monday - Friday in celebration of National Park Week.

Go exploring.

Photo

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:01:35 -0400

Photo

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:01:11 -0400

It’s impossible to forget your first sunset in Paris.

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:00:17 -0400

It’s impossible to forget your first sunset in Paris.

I am determined to one day live under the enchantment of this...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:54:20 -0400

I am determined to one day live under the enchantment of this country… Paris is too busy for me but I cannot discount its magic.

Photo

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:32:48 -0400

This video never gets old for me. Ohhh Stevie.

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:28:43 -0400

This video never gets old for me. Ohhh Stevie.

Jet lagged at the office, wishing I was back in this place.

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 14:44:27 -0400

Jet lagged at the office, wishing I was back in this place.

someone / didn’t wanna know their name

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:42:03 -0400

someone / didn’t wanna know their name