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13/08/2024

Very true 👏

13/08/2024

13/08/2024

It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don't have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables around you and suddenly there will be a story to live in.
~Naomi Shihab Nye

🎨Sultry Day, woodcut by Paul Landacre

12/08/2024

When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a believer, many people would come up to me-it still sometimes happens-and ask me if Carl changed at the end and converted to a belief in an afterlife. They also frequently ask me if I think I will see him again. Carl faced his death with unflagging courage and never sought refuge in illusions. The tragedy was that we knew we would never see each other again. I don't ever expect to be reunited with Carl. But, the great thing is that when we were together, for nearly twenty years, we lived with a vivid appreciation of how brief and precious life is. We never trivialized the meaning of death by pretending it was anything other than a final parting. Every single moment that we were alive and we were together was miraculous-not miraculous in the sense of inexplicable or supernatural. We knew we were beneficiaries of chance... That pure chance could be so generous and so kind... That we could find each other, as Carl wrote so beautifully in Cosmos, you know, in the vastness of space and the immensity of time... That we could be together for twenty years. That is something which sustains me and it’s much more meaningful... The way he treated me and the way I treated him, the way we took care of each other and our family, while he lived. That is so much more important than the idea I will see him someday. I don't think I'll ever see Carl again. But I saw him. We saw each other. We found each other in the cosmos, and that was wonderful. ~Ann Druyan

Ann Druyan is a renowned writer and producer, best known for her collaborations with her late husband, the celebrated scientist Carl Sagan. Together, they created groundbreaking works that explored the cosmos and our place within it.
One such masterpiece is 'Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors' (https://amzn.to/3YE9i9O [ad]), which delves into the history of human evolution and our connection to the universe.

(Art: Photograph of Ann Druyan and Carl Sagan by Tony Korody)

11/08/2024

Today's good Quote.

- is by Leonardo da VINCI (1452-1519) famous Italian Polymath of the High Renaissance, who was active as a Painter, Draughtsman, Engineer, Scientist, Theorist, Sculptor, and Architect. Mostly known for his Painting "Mona Lisa".

11/08/2024

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11/08/2024

Libraries were a saviour to Billy Connolly

11/08/2024

Pierre de Coubertin hoped the modern Games would encourage the ancient Greek notion of harmony between "muscle and mind"

10/08/2024

"Who are you?' said the Caterpillar.
This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, 'I — I hardly know, sir, just at present — at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.'"
Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1865.

Arantza Sestayo - Alice and the Caterpillar.

10/08/2024

Juan Gris
Woman Reading
1927
Oil and pencil on canvas, 91.7 × 73 cm

10/08/2024

https://www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/more/qe2times/to-encourage-and-educate-the-next-generation-of-women-100965573/

Great Women Portrait Project at QEII making a positive impact

09/08/2024

https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/barbara-kingsolver-american-climate-corps-pledge Take the pledge for environmental justice now - here are words to adapt/adopt

Read the pledge for the all-new American Climate Corps. The novelist explains why she wrote it.

07/08/2024

06/08/2024

https://hyperallergic.com/933701/brianna-hernandez-art-ritual-and-advocacy-at-the-end-of-life

Funerary Arts

Mining the rich legacy of art as a way to honor the dead, Hyperallergic Fellow Brianna L. Hernández traced the history of funerary arts to contemporary practitioners.

06/08/2024

Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries:

"It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticise those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones.

"There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion.

"If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the 'medicine closet' and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That's why you should always have a nutrition choice!

"Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity."

04/08/2024

01/08/2024

https://artistsbooksandmultiples.blogspot.com/2024/07/carole-conde-and-karl-beveridge-its.html

Carole Conde died this week at age 84. Carole Conde and Karl Beveridge were presenters for the StFX Art Gallery several years ago.

Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge ...It’s Still Privileged Art Toronto, Canada: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1976 [44] pp., 13.5 x 20 cm., staple...

29/07/2024

https://www.clcurry.com/obituaries/179155

Fran Nunn was a force, playing Mrs. Ross the cook in the decolonizing pilgrimage to 1784: (Un)Settling Antigonish, which played five times at Town Point in the summer of 2014. Rest in Power
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23/07/2024

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23/07/2024

by Rukmini Poddar

23/07/2024

Support updating municipal bylaws for biodiversity - the Piping Plover and Estuary of Antigonish Harbour will thank you. Listen to Estu and Plove make the case on Podcast Theatre: https://tryhealingarts.ca/harp-podcast/

Educators for Social Justice - Nova Scotia Laurie Boucher John Moriarty Institute for Ecology and Spirituality John Graham-Pole Author Atlantic Books Today Festival Antigonish Summer Theatre Neptune Theatre This is Marketing Anne Camozzi Denise Davies A Fractal World Severn Cullis-Suzuki

Outdated municipal bylaws and enforcement policies limit the potential of habitat gardens to positively transform our cities, towns and communities