Archive for November, 2016
‘We’re seeing a scene as explosive as the Freedom Rides or the bus boycotts play out in real time on the high plains of the Dakotas.’ Photograph: Stephanie Keith/Reuters
The US government sent helpers to protect integration efforts in the 1960s. Why not do more to protect the Dakota Pipeline protesters today?
Lessons of physical prosperity in a despotic regime
Source: How Cubans Live as Long as Americans at a Tenth of the Cost – The Atlantic
On stray bits of salvaged paper, Dickinson conjured a new form of verbal notation.ILLUSTRATION BY TINA BERNING
On letters, envelopes, and chocolate wrappers, the poet wrote lines that transcend the printed page.
Source: Emily Dickinson’s Singular Scrap Poetry – The New Yorker
I thought happiness was false; I thought that life was torturous for everyone.
Noh1 for ichigenkin, Noh actor or any other performer The ichigenkin is a one string Japanese zither, which I have studied for many years. Ichigenkin philosophy reflects both those of Zen and Shinto…
Source: Noh 1 | Within the Wind
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