To find your own way is to follow your bliss I always tell my students ‘follow your bliss’. When you have that feeling, stay with it and don’t let anyone throw you off. ~ Joseph Campbell ~ (I am on a Joseph Campbell kick in honor of the 25th anniversary of The Power of Myth. One of the
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The Lama, the book and Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen narrates a film on The Tibetan Book of the Dead, featuring His Holiness the Dalai Lama (1994) [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfdFoINVdoQ&w=640&h=360] 5 part video series, an hour in total. According to Buddhist scholar and translator Robert Thurman (father of Uma), The Tibetan Book of the Dead, or Bardo Thodol, “organizes the experiences of the between—(Tibetan, bar-do) usually referring to the state
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Medal of Honor
July 12, in 1862, US Congress authorized the Medal of Honor. This one was awarded to Sergeant Major Christian Fleetwood, 4th U. S. Colored Troops, for heroism on the field of battle in 1864. Fleetwood was a free man born in Baltimore, Maryland. He traveled to Liberia as a young man and attended Ashmun Institute in Oxford, Pennsylvania.
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nude by fireplace | James Van Der Zee
Please check out some of James Van Der Zee works in Metropolitan Museum of Art Collections. And the exhibit in Naratives in African American Art and Identity. James Van Der Zee (June 29, 1886 – May 15, 1983) was an African American photographer best known for his portraits of black New Yorkers. He was a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Aside
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En point in a window
A huge favorite photos series: Ballerina Project Titles are my words, I am not a part of the Ballerina Project.
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Arvo Pärt – Sanctus
Arvo Pärt – Sanctus on Vimeo Arvo Pärt is an Estonian classical composer and one of the most prominent living composers of sacred music. Arvo Pärt, born 11 September 19350, is an Estonian classical composer and composer of sacred music. Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs his self-invented compositional technique, tintinnabuli. His music also takes inspiration from Gregorian
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Extension on a bridge
I cannot get enough from Ballerina Project: Titles are my words, I am not a part of the Ballerina Project.
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Wed, Aug 16, 2017
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Wed, Aug 16, 2017
Art and the Bible