Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a descending spiral, ultimately ending in destruction for all and everybody. Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in … Continue reading Quote for Today: Martin Luther King, Jr
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Quote for Today: Suzy Kassem
We must all work in harmony with each other to stand up for what is right, to speak up for what is fair, and to always voice any corrections so that the ignorant become informed and justice is never ignored. Every time a person allows an act of ignorance to happen, they delay our progress … Continue reading Quote for Today: Suzy Kassem
Quote for Today: Lao Tzu
If the Great Way perishes there will be morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants. --Lao Tzu Public Domain Image via Pixabay
Quote for Today: Elizabeth Gaskell
The daily life into which people are born, and into which they are absorbed before they are well aware, forms chains which only one in a hundred has moral strength enough to despise, and to break when the right time comes - when an inward necessity for independent individual action arises, which is superior to … Continue reading Quote for Today: Elizabeth Gaskell
Quote for Today: Iain M. Banks
It was a warship, after all. It was built, designed to glory in destruction, when it was considered appropriate. It found, as it was rightly and properly supposed to, an awful beauty in both the weaponry of war and the violence and devastation which that weaponry was capable of inflicting, and yet it knew that attractiveness stemmed … Continue reading Quote for Today: Iain M. Banks
Through The Eyes of Betrayer and Betrayed: Fractures
Is it possible to empathize with those who have made choices that inflict pain on themselves and those around them? These three poems, Fractures, were written in 2012 for an operatic recital called The Other Woman. They were also part of the inspiration for an earlier blog post called Of Mud and Poetry Contests and are … Continue reading Through The Eyes of Betrayer and Betrayed: Fractures
Undercurrents of Sensuality and Aggression in Bram Stoker’s Dracula
The most famous of vampires is Dracula. Why are we mesmerized by this character created more than a century ago? We owe our acquaintance with Dracula, a figure who has laced himself through western culture and has been portrayed on film more than Sherlock Holmes, to the mind of Bram Stoker, who wove him from … Continue reading Undercurrents of Sensuality and Aggression in Bram Stoker’s Dracula
From a Bygone Era: The Art of Kissing, 1936
1936 was a memorable year: Hitler's Germany hosted the Olympics in Berlin and broke the Treaty of Versailles by stationing troops in Rhineland; Italy occupied Ethiopia; Franco rose to power in Spain; China declared war on Japan; Hoover Dam, then known as Boulder Dam, was finished; The Green Hornet debuted on Detroit radio; Life Magazine was … Continue reading From a Bygone Era: The Art of Kissing, 1936