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Robert Lewis Stevenson, “The Moon”
Alfred Choral, “The Moon Has A Face,” Glenda Franklin
The Summer in Photos: July 5, 2021
Author / Robert Gerst
The Good Old Summertime
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal..
“Obe” Young & Sally Brown, Lake Waccamaw, North Carolina, (July 4, 1904)
Billy Murray, “In the Good Old Summertime” (1904)
You hold her hand and she holds yours
And that’s a very good sign
That she’s your tootsey-wootsey
In the good, old summertime
The Summer in Photos: August 29, 2019
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“A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow…”
Djuna Barnes, Nightwood (1936), Chapter Six, “When A Tree Falls”
The Summer in Photos: August 29, 2019
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What none knows is when, not if.
Frank Bedart, “If see No End In Is.”
The Summer in Photos: June 24, 2021
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Summer Recording Workshop, “Because”
A dove came down to sit with me. Brown as a lump she sat with her tail twitching and her eyes turning. I could watch the throb of her breathing.
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One Moment: June 20, 2020
Anecdote of the Jar
Wallace Stevens
One Moment: June 20, 2021
A great squalling & clattering of wings…something alarming to a cloud of birds invisible behind the trees…pandemonium…and then a small red fox emerged from behind the rose of Sharron bush and sauntered across the lawn…. How bright he was! How bouncing and jaunty and full of joy he seemed and how oblivious to the terrified birds who beheld him and somehow knew, never having seen such a creature in these suburban woods, that his joy was their despair. And all this time, the wind blew and the sun shone and world continued oblivious to their terror and his triumphant solitude. (7:45 AM)
Apollo’s Fire & Amanda Powell, “A Fox Went Out On a Chilly Night”
Four Harmonies: June 19, 2021
Emperor Huizong (r. 1100-1126), “Auspicious Cranes” (1112)
Spectrogram of a singing cardinal (Cornell Lab of Ornithology Macaulay Library)
sound of a singing cardinal (Cornell Lab of Ornithology Macaulay Library)
The Summer in Photos: June 18, 2021
Mendlessohn, A Midsummer’s Night Dream Overture—Russian Philharmonic-Moscow City Symphony
Feed him with apricocks and dewberries,
With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries;
The honey-bags steal from the humble-bees,
And for night-tapers crop their waxen thighs
And light them at the fiery glow-worm’s eyes...
Shakespeare, A Midsummer’s Night Dream, Act III, Scene I
The Summer in Photos: June 17, 2021
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Poem: John Donne, “The Sun Rising” Read Aloud By Richard Burton