“The greatest poet in the English language found his poetry where poetry is found: in the lives of the people. He could have done this only through love — by knowing… that whatever was happening to anyone was happening to him.” Finding Poetry in Other Lives: James Baldwin on Shakespeare, Language as a Tool of Love, and the Poet’s Responsibility to a Divided Society
Boy Charlton pool was overflowing with lives of other colouful characters this morning, while almost empty Copper Mill featured Ian the blast from the parliamentary past ...
Garden is looking really good after hours of Saturday pruning and planting... Malchkeon's Exotic herbs go well with Gitka's forest mushrooms. Vegetables are in full swing this spring / sustainable living with father in law's zuchinis on steroid and our tomatoes are full of juice after all the storms this week ... Worm farm and horse manure perfom miracles when it comes to homegrown chokos (sic) ginger, turmeric and especially the devil-protection garlic ...
In the fourth of the s(i)x lectures, titled “On Nonconformity,” Ben Shahn writes:
The artist (including the rare bohemian Gardener) is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society. He seems a little unpredictable. Who knows but that he may arrive for dinner in a red shirt… appear unexpectedly bearded… offer, freely, unsolicited advice… or even ship off one of his ears to some unwilling recipient? However glorious the history of art, the history of artists is quite a different matter. And in any well-ordered household the very thought that one of the young men may turn out to be an artist can be a cause for general alarm. It may be a point of great pride to have a Van Gogh on the living room wall, but the prospect of having Van Gogh himself in the living room would put a good many devoted art lovers to rout.
The British Film Festival Down Under brought to Sydney The ...Limehouse Golem (Mitleuropean Golem ) brought even bigger crowd late at night, then the early swim at the pool, to the little Italy Bill Nighy is a brilliant performer ...
A series of murders has shaken the community to the point where people believe that only a legendary creature from dark times – the mythical so-called bohemian Golem nust be responsible ...
The tale is told in flashback as Kildare questions Elizabeth to formulate a defence, but he’s also interrogating other suspects so he can prove the late John Cree guilty by process of elimination. The Limehouse Golem, as the serial killer calls himself, has to be one of the few people who were in the British Museum reading room (“the furnace where the future is forged!”) on a certain date. Others who were there include Karl Marx and George Gissing Review of note
Since Triumphant Trump won the unwinnable election Orange is the new Black. Speaking of Colours, The NSW Nationals were at risk of being "trumped" in Orange on Saturday night.
Voters in the the once-safe seat punished the NSW Nationals by flocking to the minor Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party in a byelection that is being seen as barometer of unhappiness with the Baird government's greyhound ban and forced council mergers. Gerrymanders at Grass Root Levels ... Not unnoticed by local voters
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