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June 4, 2016September 25, 2017 tonicelebrity, death, Personality, Philosophy, political, race, social, sports, US

Muhammad Ali, “Remember me…”

An unsurpassed legacy has reached its temporal conclusion.  The greatest sports figure and celebrity of the 20th century has passed.  Rather than mourn his death, we continue to celebrate his […]

May 20, 2016August 25, 2017 toniCulture, Middle East, religion spirituality, social

Female Sufis in the Medieval Period

WOMAN WITH A SPRAY OF FLOWERS, ISFAHAN, IRAN, CA. 1595 Dr. Lloyd Ridgeon talks about the role of Sufi women in the medieval period. Ridgeone examines positive and negative portrayals of […]

April 24, 2016October 18, 2017 toniCulture, social, talk, US, video, writer

The End of Literacy and Reality in the Age of Trump

Pulitzer prize–winner Chris Hedges charts the dramatic and disturbing rise of a post-literate society that craves fantasy, ecstasy and illusion. Chris Hedges argues that we now live in two societies: […]

February 16, 2016April 25, 2016 Toni HCulture, Latin America, race, social, video

Andean Palaces and Aymara Cultural Reclamation | video

   

Modern Bolivian Archecture was originally published on It Matters

November 4, 2014October 30, 2017 toniEast Asia, ethnic or cultural, Event, film, history, military, Science, social, US, video

Gojira, what Godzilla is in the words of the Japanese

“Godzilla represents the complicity of mankind in its own destruction.” Godzilla does not feel emotion…Godzilla is emotion ~ Jun Fukuda, director Godzilla could not be defeated by the weapons that […]

September 29, 2014June 12, 2018 toniethnic or cultural, Europe, history, Middle East, music, religion spirituality, social, video

Medieval Sephardic Music | performance

Medieval Jewish music of  Spain.  Beautiful. Exotic to our ears, ethereal and rhythmic. Above is a long playlist of 26 pieces of Spanish Sephardic music.  The first performances are by […]

August 29, 2014 tonipoet, quote, religion spirituality, sage - thinker, social

This Moment

“Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. Live the actual moment. Only […]

August 8, 2014 toniEastern Europe, Personality, portrait, social

Portrait of a Living Saint

I love portrait photography.  This one is striking and of an interesting man.  He is Dobri Dobrev,   a 100-year-old beggar shown here in a threadbare coat. “Grandpa” Dobri, is already celebrated […]

May 28, 2014September 20, 2014 toniAfrica, anniversary, death, ethnic or cultural, film, historical figure, music, Personality, poet, political, sage - thinker, social, writer

farewell great lady

We celebrate Maya Angelou’s life, cherish her wisdom, and learn from her words.  But we will do so without her now, 28 May, 2014.   “Listen to yourself and in that […]

April 28, 2014January 9, 2015 tonianniversary, Event, history, Middle East, political, quote, social, video, war

יום השואה Yom Ha’Shoa

“Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day” Yom HaZikaron laShoah ve-laG’vurah יום הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה; Today the world  remembers an atrocity we would not like to remember, so painful and horrid beyond […]

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