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Winter Solstice 2022 In Columbus, Ohio, USA: Wednesday, December 21, 2022 at 4:48 pm EST The winter solstice is the time of year when the...

Today I joyfully share with you a truly musical artist-Julian Bream, lutenist; an "angel we have heard on high!" Lute- a stringed musical...

Saint Nicholas Day, also called the Feast of Saint Nicholas, is observed on 6 December or on the eve of 5 December in Western Christian...

Painting by Jacque Pépin 11/27/22 The inspiration for this blog post came from Dean Sluyter’s book of the same title. Shout out to...

On this special day devoted to gratitude, I offer my thanks to my family, friends, and readers for taking time to observe the contents of...

chiaroscuro, (from Italian chiaro, “light,” and scuro, “dark”), technique employed in the visual arts to represent light and shadow as...

https://youtu.be/X03lvK7qoco I recently discovered Samara Joy. She IS the real thing! I'm probably late to the party, but I'm glad I...

One looks into the stall, And what does one see? An interesting creature Looking back at me. With this creature I seem to be aligned, But...

THE WHEEL At the first strokes of the fiddle bow the dancers rise from their seats. The dance begins to shape itself in the crowd, as...

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Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So...

As one drives westward down Junk Road, one expects to see expansive fields of soybeans and corn, an ever changing magnificent sky, and a...

10/6/22 Heaven is closed and hell's overcrowded So I think I'll just stay where I am So many people, well it sure is lonely Who even...

As most of you know, I was intimately involved with “song” for more than fifty years. On October 6, 2022, I turn 70, so I take this...

There is a man who haunts the forest, that hangs odes upon hawthorns and elegies On brambles. -William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act...

Sunset at Merry Mount 9/22/22 O boundless, boundless evening. Soon the glow of long hills on the skyline will be gone, Like clear dream...

Gentle airs, melodious strains! Call for raptures out of woe, Lull the regal mourners' pains, Sweetly soothe her as you flow. - Samuel...

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Ashaninka woman basking in sunlight. Credit: André Dib Unfortunately, American History is laden with numerous atrocities inflicted on...

The Silken Tent She is as in a field a silken tent At midday when a sunny summer breeze Has dried the dew and all its ropes relent, So...