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Today, we lost the great Zen elder Thich Nhat Hanh, who gave so much to our world in the near-century his borrowed stardust constituted his selfless self. Here is one of his most immortal and life-expanding teachings: themarginalian.org/2020/12/0…
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Charlie Watts was the most elegant and dignified drummer in rock and roll. He played exactly what was needed - no more - no less. He is one of a kind.
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Do you know the answer to this week's trivia question? Reply and let us know!
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#PhilomathTrivia Time. Do you know the answer? Check back at 7pm for the reveal 🤓
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#PhilomathTrivia (@TriviaRelief): In the City of Lights is a live album recorded at a 1985 concert by this jazz great with a legendary voice, nicknamed “Sassy” and “The Divine One”. She began her professional career in 1942, opening at the Apollo Theater for Ella Fitzgerald.
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"[In August 1991}, this Russian leader mounted a tank outside Moscow's parliament building to deliver a speech. Rallying supporters of democracy, he proclaimed, 'The peoples of Russia are becoming masters of their destiny.'" #PhilomathTrivia, question P52d. #RussiaProtests
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@TriviaRelief: Referred to as the “maharajah of the keyboard” by Duke Ellington, this Canadian was the greatest jazz pianist of his generation. Often playing with his eponymous trio, he produced a massive output of recordings, earning eight Grammys and every major jazz honor.
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To commemorate #Inauguration2021 and #MLKDay, here is our Presidential Quiz (with a dash of other great Americans!) - triviarelief.org/presidentia…. With best wishes for a healthy and rewarding 2021!
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In advance of the day, here’s our Thanksgiving Quiz - bit.ly/TR-ThanksgivingQuiz - with best wishes for a happy and safe holiday! #Thanksgiving #trivia #PhilomathTrivia
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ICYMI, our podcast, A Living Past Episode 2: the Story of Etta Baker #folkmusic #ncmusic #acousticguitar #legend musicmaker.org/a-living-past…
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“The roaring of the wind is my wife and the Stars through the window pane are my Children… I do not live in this world alone but in a thousand worlds.”
Keats, born 225 years ago today, on how solitude opens up our creative channels to truth and beauty: brainpickings.org/2016/02/01…
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“I was very careful not to tell my students to only write about what you know, because I couldn’t define what they knew. That’s where the question really begins. How to define what you know.” —Paula Fox theparisreview.org/interview…
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This week for #BraveNewShakespeare, we called on Danaya Esperanza as curator. She brought together some incredible actors to read you passages from A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM: feel the love & magic in the videos below ⬇️
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“Be honest, frank and fearless and get some grasp of the real values of life… Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline.”
On this day in 1914, Dr. Du Bois penned his magnificent letter of life-advice to his teenage daughter: brainpickings.org/2016/02/23…
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Virginia Woolf published her epoch-making "A Room of One's Own" on this day in 1929. Her gorgeous account of how she became a writer and her typically tectonic insight into the most important capacity necessary for being an artist: brainpickings.org/2015/09/09…
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The first full-length biography of the Nobel laureate to appear in a quarter century, Mad at the World illuminates what has made the work of John Steinbeck an enduring part of the literary canon: his capacity for empathy. bit.ly/37wS048 [sponsored]
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We love
the hesitant Earth and her pretty fingers.
Why not just be the little stump the aspen tree was cut from
and feel good about it? Like lightning feels
when it snaps across an inky sky?
April Goldman
@NarrativeMag
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“Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it.”
Remembering Ursula K. Le Guin, born OTD in 1929: brainpickings.org/2015/10/21…