Monday, August 8, 2022
White Crane Haiku: Daniel Dennett on the Evolution of the Mind, Consc...
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Anyone Can Give Up
With new PhD students starting today, I compiled a list of 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀 that I've found particularly useful.
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Sunday, August 7, 2022
Ordinary life
Ordinary life does not interest me. I only look for the best moments.
Anais Nin
“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.” Emily Dickinson
The Inuit say stars are holes in heaven where the love of our lost ones shines down to let us know they are happy.
'Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.'
Charles Bukowski
"The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment." ~ Matisse
' I'm going to tell you something: Thoughts are never honest. Emotions are. ' Albert Camus
"I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive" Henry Miller
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old... Frans Kafka
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old... Franz Kafka
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
Claude Debussy
Know thyself; then get dressed.
Saturday, August 6, 2022
Theodore Roethke - The Far Field
Meanwhile, for those no longer driven by denial, this excerpt from the poet Theodore Roethke in his elegiac final poem, “The Far Field” (1964), stands as an eloquent call for acceptance, engagement, and full, immersive love of the world.
I am renewed by death, thought of my death,
The dry scent of a dying garden in September,
The wind fanning the ash of a low fire
What I love is near at hand,
Always, in earth and air.
Friday, August 5, 2022
Minimalist Living: The Minimalist Guide to Simple Living
Minimalist Living: The Minimalist Guide to Simple Living
Declutter Your Home to Organize, Reduce Stress, and Improve Your Quality of Life Through Minimalism
Written by: Linda Green
Publisher's Summary
The best time to start your minimalist journey was 20 years ago. The second best time is now!
The average American spends $6,997 every year on consumer goods.
Are they really buying things they need or are they just trying to fill a void?
In reality, we don't need all this stuff. Think about how much money could we spend on meaningful things.
With all that extra money in your pocket you could...
Travel to five different exotic countries each year you have never been to before!
Go sky diving
Save 10 children's lives
Take a Muay Thai course or a dancing class
Go on unforgettable adventures
Work less to spend more time with your friends and family
And everything else you ever dreamt of doing
And everything else you ever dreamt of doing
Minimalism is not for everyone, though. It requires discipline and an open mind. Living a minimalist lifestyle means getting out of your comfort zone and taking action. Many people are overwhelmed with all the things going on in their lives and cannot seem to to find a clear path to getting started.
This book is a practical guide that provides you with step-by-step instructions on how to declutter your home, office, computer, smartphone, and ultimately your mind in less than a day. This is the book I wish I had when I first started on the minimalist journey and it probably would have saved me more than $5,000.
Here is a preview of what’s included….
What are the principles of minimalism?
How to achieve minimalism at home
Decluttering your home room by room
Integrating minimalism into your work
Ways to maintain minimalism over time
Minimalist travelling
Increasing your self-confidence with minimalism
Much, much more!
By the time you finished listening to this book, you should have a good understanding of a minimalist lifestyle. You will be able to declutter your home within a few days, to live a more meaningful, healthier, and happier life!
"Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now." - Jack Kerouac
"Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now."
- Jack Kerouac
Thursday, August 4, 2022
Learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change.
Peter Drucker, wrote: “We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change.
“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.”
— Carl Rogers
Tuesday, August 2, 2022
Ray Sings, Basie Swings on 140g 2LP Collection from Tangerine Records on September 23
Ray Sings, Basie Swings on 140g 2LP Collection from Tangerine Records on September 23: To slightly modify a line from “Let the Good Times Roll” . . . hey y’all, tell everybody Ray Charles is back on wax — and this time, he's got the Count Basie Orchestra with him. To wit: Tangerine Records will re-release the October 2006 album Ray Sings, Basie Swings on vinyl on September 23, 2022.
Martha Argerich and Mischa Maisky LIVE from the Görlitz synagogue
Martha Argerich and Mischa Maisky LIVE aus der Synagoge Görlitz
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Martha Argerich and Mischa Maisky LIVE from the Görlitz synagogue
The synagogue in Görlitz is one of the most exciting cultural monuments in Lusatia. It is not only an art nouveau building of exceptional beauty, but also has an eventful history, because it is one of the few synagogues in Germany that did not fall victim to the pogrom night of 1938.
The two world-class musicians Martha Argerich and Mischa Maisky, who have a special affinity for this unique place due to their personal history, will make the former synagogue resound - almost half a year before the planned opening to the public .
Works by J. S. Bach, L. v. Beethoven an M. Bruch
Martha Argerich, piano | Mischa Maisky, violoncello
Monday, August 1, 2022
An Auschwitz Magician’s Greatest Trick: Holding the Horrors at Bay
Mr. Reich’s bunkmate at Auschwitz was Herbert Levin, also a professional magician, known in his act as the Great Nivelli. Interest in Mr. Levin has been rekindled with “Nivelli’s War,” an Off Broadway show.Credit...Johnny Milano for The New York Times
An Auschwitz Magician’s Greatest Trick: Holding the Horrors at Bay
Werner Reich, 89, learned some tricks from a bunkmate who managed to survive Auschwitz by performing magic for the camp’s guards.
By Corey Kilgannon
May 5, 2017
“All right, pick a card,” Werner Reich said, fanning out a worn deck of cards in his Long Island home to demonstrate a trick he’d learned in an unlikely place: on the top of a bare wooden bunk in the concentration camp barracks at Auschwitz.
Mr. Reich is 89 now, but in the spring of 1944, he was a terrified, emaciated teenager crammed in with other starving Jewish prisoners as they watched their comrades being killed and awaited the same fate.
His bunkmate was Herbert Levin, a kind man in his late 30s. Mr. Levin was also a professional magician, known in his act as the Great Nivelli.
The teenage Mr. Reich knew him only as Herr Levin, German for Mr. Levin, and refrained from calling him by the inmate number tattooed into his forearm, a common mode of address among the prisoners at the camp.
Mr. Levin’s family had already been killed, but he managed to survive Auschwitz by performing magic for the camp’s guards.
Interest in Mr. Levin has recently been rekindled with “Nivelli’s War,” an Off Broadway show produced by a children’s theater company at the New Victory Theater in Times Square.
Both Mr. Levin and Mr. Reich survived the Holocaust and wound up settling in New York City, but they never met again after Auschwitz.
Mr. Levin worked the rest of his life as Nivelli the magician, his stage name derived from reversing the spelling of his last name.
When Mr. Levin died in 1977, Mr. Reich spied his obituary in a magician’s magazine, written by the Rev. William Rauscher, 84, who had met the magician. The article noted Mr. Levin’s time in Auschwitz and the prisoner number tattooed on his forearm: A-1676. This was close to the one on Mr. Reich’s arm: A-1828. Mr. Reich rolled up his sleeve on Wednesday to show the number, which is now faded.
“Well, so am I,” Mr. Reich said with a laugh.
His memories of Auschwitz, however, remain indelible. He still recalls the fatherly tenderness and an air of elegance that Mr. Levin displayed, as well as the dirty pack of playing cards he would use to practice tricks on the bunk’s cushions of straw and burlap.
Six men would sleep crowded onto one bunk, in a barracks not far from the gas chambers and crematories that incinerated corpses day and night.
Amid the horror and depravity of Auschwitz, Prisoner A-1676 taught A-1828 some simple card sleight of hand, both of them in their striped uniforms on the bunk.
While Mr. Levin survived Auschwitz by currying favor with cards, coins and pieces of string, Mr. Reich made it through by being physically sturdy and incredibly lucky.
Scores of prisoners were sent to their deaths based on selections made by Josef Mengele, who was known as the Angel of Death because of his horrific experiments on prisoners.
Mr. Reich recalled being forced to strip naked and run past Mengele with other boys to display their physique.
With a casual wave, Mengele would send scores of prisoners to their deaths as he joked with German officers, Mr. Reich recalled, but he selected Mr. Reich and several dozen others for survival.
After two years of internment in several concentration camps and a 35-mile “death march” through the snow, Mr. Reich was 17 and weighed only 64 pounds when he wound up in another concentration camp, in Mauthausen, Austria, where he was liberated by American troops in May 1945.
The play depicts Nivelli’s flashback to fleeing the bombing of Frankfurt as a child and relying on a mysterious stranger who, in turn, relies on magic tricks to help the two survive so the boy can reunite with his mother.
The show’s director, Paul Bosco McEneaney, who is a founder of Cahoots NI, a children’s theater company based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, said he learned of Mr. Levin in 2011.
He was so moved by his story of survival that he commissioned Charles Way, a British playwright, to write “Nivelli’s War” not as a historical show, Mr. McEneaney said, but rather as “a piece of theater telling the story of two characters who despite avowing their hatred for each other finally come to a new relationship, which has different meanings for both.”
Mr. Way named the Nivelli character after the real-life magician not out of an intention to detail his story, but rather out of “respect and honor” and to help show how an act of kindness can spark a friendship that might otherwise seem unlikely, Mr. McEneaney said.
The play, which has received acclaim during runs in England and Ireland, also touches on the plight of refugees around the world today, as well as the history of conflict between the Irish and British in Northern Ireland, he said.
The play’s few poignant allusions to the Holocaust are meant to prompt young viewers to inquire about real-life histories of people like Mr. Levin and Mr. Reich, Mr. McEneaney said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/05/nyregion/auschwitz-magician-nivelli-war-play.html
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