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Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art… Mostly books, poetry and art. Music. Politics once in a while.
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“I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.” —Françoise Sagan #BornOnThisDay #BookChatWeekly #booksky

All you who sleep tonight Far from the ones you love No hand to left or right And emptiness above — Know that you aren’t alone The whole world shares your tears Some for two nights or one And some for all their years ~Vikram Seth #BornOnthisDay #BookChatWeekly

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All you who sleep tonight Far from the ones you love No hand to left or right And emptiness above — Know that you aren’t alone The whole world shares your tears Some for two nights or one And some for all their years ~Vikram Seth #BornOnthisDay #BookChatWeekly

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Photo of the Day. Credit to Palestinian photographer, Saeed Jaras. Posting this here because hardly any mainstream media outlets will publish it. An ongoing genocide silenced. #Gaza

“Memory is truth…It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality…no sane human being ever trusts someone else's version more than his own.” —Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children #BornOnThisDay #BookChatWeekly

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“Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor.” —John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath #BookChatWeekly

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“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.” —James Joyce, Ulysses #Bloomsday2025 #Bloomsday

“I think of you so often you have no idea” —James Joyce, Ulysses #Bloomsday #bloomsday2025

“His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl & knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.” —James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Happy #Bloomsday

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That is no country for old men. The young In one another’s arms, birds in the trees Those dying generations at their song The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long Whatever is begotten, born & dies. —William Butler Yeats #YeatsDay #BornOnThisDay

A pleasant evening of chamber music…

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The National Guard/Marines aren’t being deployed to establish law&order. They are being deployed to suppress dissent. It’s in the very nature of democracy, the essence of our founding principles that people have a right to express their views about govt policy. Our basic principles are at stake.

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Gorgeous views but 92F /33C, almost got heat stroke on my bike ride today. This kindly man came out with a garden hose to cool us down and offered cold water from his fridge…thanks man!

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A Handful of Stars by Serge Chaloff (w/ Sonny Clarke, Leroy Vinnegar & Joe Jones) Beautiful interplay of Sonny Clarke’s piano and Serge’s sax on this Lawrence/Shapiro piece. Vinyl: Serge Chaloff, Blue Serge. 1972 mono repress of the 1956 Capitol original. M-11032 #musicsky #jazzsky #vinylsky

All the Things you Are by Serge Chaloff (w/ Sonny Clarke, Leroy Vinnegar & Philly Joe Jones) A gorgeous take on this Jerome Kern classic, this is really jazz at its finest. Vinyl: Serge Chaloff, Blue Serge. 1972 mono repress of the 1956 Capitol original. M-11032 #musicsky #jazzsky #vinylsky

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What’s your favorite movie adaptation from a novel?