If you possess something but you can’t give it away, then you don’t possess it… it possesses you.– Frank Sinatra In 1967, Frank Sinatra teamed up with Brazilian singer, pianist, guitarist, composer and songwriter Antonio Carlos Jobim to record an album that married the Chairman’s signature vocals with rhythms from the master of bossa nova. [...]
I would say that there exist a thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything else, and that our dignity and our chances are one…. We are each other’s destiny – -Mary Oliver This post is to share in the joy of my friend Michele, who recently married Frank at Zurich.. A Blessing for [...]
Thought Provoking Entropy | 18 Jun 2010
All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.—-Emerson A question worth asking is: Can we afford the same slow shift on ecology as has been happening with human equality? Pl read this provocative & persuasive essay by Anurag Behar Groundwater and equality. As a schoolboy I spent many of my summer [...]
Books &Life Entropy | 14 Jun 2010
“Such is the way of civilized man; we no longer kill in a bloody hunt for food. We’re refined. We work in clean well-lighted places making civilized movements, and kill instead from a great distance . . . .” Wish to introduce wonderful world & Books of Ferenc Máté Ferenc Máté was born in Hungary [...]
Literature &Thought Provoking Entropy | 09 Jun 2010
“It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be [...]
“We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.” — Louise Glück Louise Glück is considered to be one of America’s most talented contemporary poets. The poet Robert Hass has called her “one of the purest and most accomplished lyric poets now writing,” and her poetry is noted for its technical precision, [...]