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29/01/2019

FOR THE LOVE OF JANUARY LET LOVE GROW “Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you have always wanted to do but could not find the time. Call up a forgotten friend. Drop an old grudge, and replace it with some pleasant memories. Vow not to make a promise you do not think you can keep. [ 1,391 more word ]
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FOR THE LOVE OF JANUARY LET LOVE GROW “Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you have always wanted to do but could not find the time. Call up a forgotten…

27/12/2018

DECEMBER’S POSSIBILITIES PAISLEY PARK For love is the color this place imparts Admission is easy, just say you believe And come to this place in your heart Paisley Park is in your heart I love paisley. It’s always held a funky, cool meaning for me. It has been a popular motif in fashion for centuries. To think how far it has travelled and how it developed in a small town in the Scottish Lowlands is truly amazing. [ 1,120 more word ]
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DECEMBER’S POSSIBILITIES   PAISLEY PARK For love is the color this place imparts Admission is easy, just say you believe And come to this place in your heart Paisley Park is in your heart I lo…

28/11/2018

NOVEMBER’S STRAIGHT TALK Let’s talk turkey. Because it is a native bird with a proud demeanor and protective instincts, the wild turkey was Benjamin Franklin’s preference for the national bird. He considered the bald eagle less honorable because it can be a scavenger and robs other birds and animals for prey ... Adult male turkeys are called toms and females are called hens. [ 1,071 more word ]
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NOVEMBER’S STRAIGHT TALK Let’s talk turkey. Because it is a native bird with a proud demeanor and protective instincts, the wild turkey was Benjamin Franklin’s preference for the national bird. He …

30/10/2018

OCTOBER’S COLORS Fall colors! Celebrate nature's spectacular show! FIND AUTUMN’S LEAVES Brilliant reds, oranges, and yellows in an audacious display of color. Fall Foliage by Charles Smith and Frank Kaczmarek is a guide to the best fall colors in North America. We learn about the fall foliage trees and the best locations to see them. The beautiful colors we witness every fall never fail to bring us joy. [ 864 more words ]
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OCTOBER’S COLORS Fall colors! Celebrate nature’s spectacular show! FIND AUTUMN’S LEAVES Brilliant reds, oranges, and yellows in an audacious display of color. Fall Foliage by Charles Smith an…

28/09/2018

SEPTEMBER’S FRESH START “The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.” e.e. cummings Such fun splashing in the rain, especially when it’s in the best season to relish it! Celebrate fall’s arrival with these Mini Mud Puddle Pies: Take frozen whole wheat pie crust, roll it out, and cut 3″ diameter circles with a tartlet cutter and place pie shells in a mini-muffin pan. [ 1,226 more word ]
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SEPTEMBER’S FRESH START “The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.” e.e. cummings Such fun splashing in the rain, especially when it’s in the best season to relish it! Celebrate fall’s arriva…

27/08/2018

AUGUST’S SORROW Aretha Franklin (March 25, 1942-August 16, 2018) WITH RESPECT It started out as a soul song and ended up a national anthem of empowerment. Aretha Franklin turned Otis Redding’s soulful Respect into a statement, a mountain of meaning, a powerful mandate for all of humanity. Some say that it is the best cover of any song of all time. [ 1,401 more word ]
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AUGUST’S SORROW Aretha Franklin (March 25, 1942-August 16, 2018) WITH RESPECT It started out as a soul song and ended up a national anthem of empowerment. Aretha Franklin turned Otis Redding’s soul…

27/07/2018

JULY’S HOT AND COLD Yum! July is National Ice Cream Month! CHER NEWS “Think album will be out in sept. ” According to this tweet, Cher recorded an album of ABBA covers. Yes, ABBA songs. This follows her role in the new film, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, where she plays…wait for it…the grandmother part! “After I did ‘Fernando’ I thought it would really be fun to do an album of ABBA songs, so I did. [ 1,350 more word ]
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JULY’S HOT AND COLD Yum! July is National Ice Cream Month! CHER NEWS “Think album will be out in sept. ” According to this tweet, Cher recorded an album of ABBA covers. Yes, ABBA songs. This follow…

27/06/2018

JUNE AND SUMMER’S IN THE AIR RADIO, ROBOTS, AND REMOTE CONTROL “Invention is the most important product of man’s creative brain. The ultimate purpose is … the harnessing of human nature to human needs.” Elon Musk named his company for Nikola Tesla, Elon’s forerunner genius super nerd. In Richard Munson's illustrated biography, Tesla: Inventor of the Modern, we learn that engineer and physicist Tesla was born in Croatia in 1856, stood at 6'2", weighed 140 pounds, was a germaphobe, dressed to the nines, spoke eight languages, slept three hours a day, memorized and wrote poetry, filed 300 patents, was a superstitious numerologist, and wowed Wall Street investors with Jedi light tubes arcing between eight-foot electrically charged plates. [ 1,313 more word ]
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JUNE AND SUMMER’S IN THE AIR   RADIO, ROBOTS, AND REMOTE CONTROL “Invention is the most important product of man’s creative brain. The ultimate purpose is … the harnessing of human nature to h…

28/05/2018

FOR THE LOVE OF MAY The beloved artist of LOVE, Robert Indiana (who changed his name from Robert Clark in honor of his home state), died this month on May 19. Originally a Christmas card that was commissioned by The Museum of Modern Art in 1965, his LOVE painting became the embodiment of peace and love of the ‘60s. He turned it into the famous sculpture that is erected in cities all over the world. [ 1,563 more word ]
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FOR THE LOVE OF MAY The beloved artist of LOVE, Robert Indiana (who changed his name from Robert Clark in honor of his home state), died this month on May 19. Originally a Christmas card that was c…

29/04/2018

BONNIE APRIL “My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here, My heart's in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer; A-chasing the wild deer, and following the roe, My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go.” Robert Burns (My Heart's in the Highlands) Tartan Day is a U.S. observance celebrating Scotland on April 6 each year. It commemorates the Declaration of Arbroath signed on April 6 in 1320, the Scottish Declaration of Independence, from which the U.S. [ 1,379 more word ]
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BONNIE APRIL “My heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here, My heart’s in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer; A-chasing the wild deer, and following the roe, My heart’s in the…

28/03/2018

MARCH’S MOONLIGHT + MADNESS “We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.” (William Butler Yeats) MARY SHELLEY’S FRANKENSTEIN Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is 200 years old. Mary was born in London in 1797, the daughter of pioneering feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, and was married to the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley when she was 16. [ 1,269 more word ]

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MARCH’S MOONLIGHT + MADNESS “We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps e…

27/02/2018

FEBRUARY: PEACE LOVE UNDERSTANDING “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson) WHERE IS LOVE? “Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.” (Oliver Wendell Holmes) Love, from Old English lufu, of Germanic origin; also from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit lubhyati ‘desires,’ Latin libet ‘it is pleasing,’ and libido ‘desire’ … We think of love as a swooning, star-crossed romance. [ 1,360 more word ]

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FEBRUARY: PEACE LOVE UNDERSTANDING “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson) WHERE IS LOVE? “Love is the master key that opens the gates of happines…

25/02/2018

Happy Birthday George Harrison. Thank you for bringing in the sun in tough times.

George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Elton John, Phil Collin, Eric Clapton and a few others play Here Comes The Sun

30/01/2018

JANUARY, HOPE’S PATHWAY “Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.’” Alfred Lord Tennyson LOST AND FOUND A Monet painting that had been missing since 1895 has been found through a Google search! The Effet de Brouillard, painted in 1872, was tracked down by art historian Richard Thomson. Missing for years, he discovered the painting had recently been sold in New Orleans and through the power of the internet he tracked it down! [ 1,434 more word ]

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JANUARY, HOPE’S PATHWAY “Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, ‘It will be happier.’” Alfred Lord Tennyson LOST AND FOUND A Monet painting that had been missing sinc…

22/12/2017

DECEMBER’S WONDERS Christmas Eve, December 24, 1968. Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the moon, was entering lunar orbit. As it was circumnavigating the moon, Astronaut Bill Anders took Earthwise, the iconic picture showing Earth peeking out from beyond the lunar surface …. And then poet Archibald MacLeish penned the essay Riders on the Earth that appeared in… [ 1,535 more word ]

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DECEMBER’S WONDERS Christmas Eve, December 24, 1968. Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the moon, was entering lunar orbit. As it was circumnavigating the moon, Astronaut Bill Anders took Earthw…

27/11/2017

November Newsletter: A Review of the Month’s Culture, Arts + Trends https://t.co/nA7zBxnXgE https://t.co/itumkiSwL7

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27/11/2017

NOVEMBER MEDLEY Reach out your hand if your cup be empty, If your cup is full may it be again… THE MYSTERIOUS ORIENT EXPRESS Hercule Poirot solved his most famous case on it, Alfred Hitchcock’s lady vanished from it, and James Bond rode it from Istanbul to London ... The original Orient Express, opulent and glamourous, ran between Paris and Istanbul, its first departure on October 4, 1883 from Paris’ Gare de l’Est ... [ 1,796 more word ]

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NOVEMBER MEDLEY Reach out your hand if your cup be empty, If your cup is full may it be again… THE MYSTERIOUS ORIENT EXPRESS Hercule Poirot solved his most famous case on it, Alfred Hitchcock’s lad…

29/10/2017

October Newsletter: A Review of the Month’s Culture, Arts + Trends https://t.co/qDMqh1G8n3 https://t.co/i2gEnVMlw6

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29/10/2017

OCTOBER’S FREEFALL “Gonna free fall out into nothin' Gonna leave this world for a while And I'm free, free fallin'…” Tom Petty was MusiCares Person of The Year and celebrating the band’s 40th anniversary with a high-profile tour. What a great year he was having – then our hearts were broken ... “Well I know what's right, I got just one life, In a world that keeps on pushin' me around, But I'll stand my ground, And I won't back down” [ 1,647 more word ]

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OCTOBER’S FREEFALL “Gonna free fall out into nothin’ Gonna leave this world for a while And I’m free, free fallin’…” Tom Petty was MusiCares Person of The Year and celebrating …

09/10/2017

Happy Birthday, John.

09/10/2017

Happy Birthday John Forever.

02/10/2017

I don't know how, I don't know when
But you and I will meet again.

02/10/2017

Well some say life will beat you down
Break your heart, steal your crown
So I've started out for God knows where
I guess I'll know when I get there

27/09/2017

September Newsletter: A Review of the Month’s Culture, Arts + Trends https://t.co/R6lHMpe6eT https://t.co/OK41pMUL3A

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27/09/2017

SEPTEMBER’S NEW LEAF? WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW Count on Ringo to catch the zeitgeist and encourage its remedy. If words alone would heal…Give More Love. Sometimes this world can be a hard place We wonder where we go from here So many hurting bad, Lost everything they had It’s hard to know what we can do Give more love, Give more love… [ 1,691 more word ]

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SEPTEMBER’S NEW LEAF? WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW Count on Ringo to catch the zeitgeist and encourage its remedy. If words alone would heal…Give More Love. Sometimes this world can be a hard place W…

05/09/2017

Can't we give ourselves one more chance?
Why can't we give love that one more chance?
Why can't we give love, give love, give love, give love
Give love, give love, give love, give love, give love?

05/09/2017

Happy Birthday Freddie Mercury. Forever Fabulous!

28/08/2017

August Newsletter: A Review of the Month’s Culture, Arts + Trends https://t.co/7YkFyy1Dou https://t.co/7kRCwk80a4

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28/08/2017

AUGUST’S MOONDANCE “… All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night … the reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.” (Victor Hugo) The total eclipse of 2017, when the sun was completely blocked by the moon, crossed from the West Coast to the East Coast, from Oregon to South Carolina. [ 1,222 more word ]

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AUGUST’S MOONDANCE “… All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night … [for] the reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.” (Victor H…