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The Slow Learner by David Smith
The Slow Learner After 41 years or 15,000 days He finally learned that: To think of the past was to be on the material plane, To think...
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Jun 27, 20172 min read
T.S. Eliot is said to have revived the Metaphysical Poets
Song T. S. Eliot, 1888 - 1965 If space and time, as sages say, Are things which cannot be, The fly that lives a single day Has lived as...
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Jun 27, 20171 min read
Poetics of Space. Hariclia's Art Exhibition July 2017
Exhibition coming to Artifact Gallery 84 Orchard street NYC July 12-30 What Is Your Substance What is your substance, whereof are you...
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Jun 25, 20171 min read
One touch of nature
Shakespeare Quotes Touch of nature Ulysses: Let not virtue seek Remuneration for the thing it was; For beauty, wit, High birth, vigor of...
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Jun 25, 20171 min read
Centuries of Meditations By Thomas Traherne
Thomas Traherne's poem Wonder and Paul Twitchell's Tigers Fang It seems I should take an interest in the English Metaphysical poets if I...
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Jun 24, 20172 min read
Throw a little sauce on it
Echale Salsita by Ignacio Pineiro Salsa may have got it's name from this song. Youtube MUSIC REVIEW | SEPTETO NACIONAL IGNACIO PIÑEIRO...
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Jun 24, 20172 min read
Bilongo Cuban Music
La Negra Tomasa,” or “Bilongo,” is a song written in 1937 by the Cuban composer Guillermo Rodríguez Fiffe (1907-1995). Youtube Bilongo...
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Jun 24, 20173 min read
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Jun 22, 20170 min read
And Music shall untune the sky!
A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687 By John Dryden Stanza 1 From harmony, from Heav'nly harmony This universal frame began. When Nature...
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Jun 22, 20172 min read
Ring out, ye crystal spheres
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity By John Milton This is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son of Heav'n's eternal King,...
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Jun 22, 20176 min read
Back where I started
My first job was delivering a newspaper door to door. Because my goal is to walk ten miles a day in the sunshine while maneuvering an...
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Jun 22, 20171 min read
My Six Year Journey though the Guru Granth Sahib
I finally came to the end of a five volume Holy Book of the Sikhs. It officially has about 1430 pages or about 2900 in this translation....
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Jun 19, 20172 min read
Why total enlightenment is better today than tomorrow
In the first place planning on it tomorrow already has not worked. If it is done today will not tomorrow be a much more pleasant place?...
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Jun 16, 20171 min read
Fifty years of research at UVA provides a lot of evidence for life after death
Or at least transformation to another form According to the youtube video Uva video youtube Dr. Bruce Greyson has been studying...
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Jun 12, 20171 min read
A Strong Body supports a Strong Mind which supports better Meditation
In this exercise hack do the exercises that spell out your name. If you want more use a dice and do 1 to six times more
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Jun 6, 20171 min read
My Mind to me a Kingdom is
By Sir Edward Dyer Poetry reading My Mynde to me a Kyngdome is One of the poems once universally accepted as his is "My Mynde to me a...
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Jun 6, 20171 min read
Kissing Cousins in the Smith line
What is going on with the Foote's? If you look at this Pedigree you can see that John Smith & Joanna Kellogg were first cousins. Now as...
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May 29, 20171 min read
Mary Reeve Webster of Hadley and Philip Smith
Who knows what really happened? There was a time when any strange behavior from a women was treated as being a witch. This incident...
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May 29, 201711 min read
Max & Thomas exploring their past in Ridgefield Connecticut
Little do they know their English roots lie beneath their feet and it is not the Smith tombstone but the Whitlock! If you trace the...
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May 28, 20171 min read
Kissing Cousins in the Marett line
If you look closely you can see that Thomas Meekins and Mary Meekins were cousins. There are also Earl side relatives living in Hadley,...
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May 28, 20171 min read
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