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comprised of Photos and Miscellaneous Quotes & Writings
which resonate with me and I hope with you as well.

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Enjoy! – Suze   

(Last entry 09/08)  

>>> Each man has inside him a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a man to listen to his own goodness and act on it. Do we dare to be ourselves? This is the question that counts.     (Pablo Casals)

A POTPOURI OF PHOTOS click on a pic! the Aviary Album >>>

A MELANGE of MISCELLANY

ART is a higher type of knowledge than experience. (Aristotle 322BC)

Art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm...an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.                                                                                                                (Saul Bellow)

MUSIC is the shortest distance between two points. And it is the only way we touch infinity.

                                                                                                        (Peter Sellars)

Well, for me, let’s keep jazz as folk music. Let’s not make jazz classical music. Let’s keep it as street music, as people’s everyday-life music. Let’s see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they’re living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around. It’s a cliche’, but it’s such a valuable one: something that is the most personal becomes the most universal.                                                                                                                    (Pat Metheny)

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes – ah, that is where the art resides!    (Arthur Schnabel)

BIG BLACK HOLES SING BASS "One particularly monstrous black hole has probably been humming B flat for billions of years, but at a pitch no human could hear, let alone sing," astronomers revealed Sept. 9, 2003. The detection was made with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. "The intensity of the sound is comparable to human speech," said Andrew Fabian of the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge. But the pitch of the sound is about 57 octaves below middle C, roughly the middle of a standard piano keyboard. This is far, far deeper than humans can hear, the researchers said, and they believe it is the deepest note ever detected in the universe. The new-found note has been sounding, the researchers say, for about 2.5 billion years.

POETRY is the synthesis between hyacinths and biscuits. (Carl Sandburg)

The Peace of Wild Things

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives
with forethought of grief.
I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time I rest
in the grace of the world, and am free.
                                                          (Wendell Berry)

EARTHY CONCERNS Compostings of a Biophiliac

BIOPHILIA: E.O. Wilson explains it as: the human connection to Nature and its life forces – a love of – and a need for Nature, a primordial appetite for the out of doors; nature-lust. Wilson believes that the preservation of the world lies in understanding and appreciating the wonder and awe that nature arouses.

As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. (John Muir)

You have to listen harder to the natural world so that you can separate out the primal song from the songs of our civilization and our static.   (Bill McKibbon)

The RESURRECTION of the IVORY-BILLED WOODPECKER
Spotted for first time in over 60 years in the wild swamplands of the Cache Riverat’l Wildlife Refuge in Arkansas – a protected land – home to this beautiful creature – back from the brink of extinction – this bird hung on in one of the few places we set aside for wildlife. Largest & rarest woodpecker in US – 19–21 inches in length, with 3 foot wingspan, a crest (red in males/black in females), ivory-colored, chisel-tipped bill and distinctive black and white markings. Sometimes called the “Lord, God bird“ – it is such a striking bird that when people would see it, they’Sd say, “Lord, God, what a woodpecker!“

In the end, these incredible birds remind us of a fundamental truth of biology – life finds a way, if we just give it enough room. (Jamie Clark of Defenders of Wildlife)

WORDS TO LIVE BY

>>> One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good. Give it, give it all, give it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water.

                                                                                                                     (Annie Dillard)

>>> Stop thinking this is all there is...Realize that for every on-going war and religious outrage and environmental devastation and bogus Iraqi attack plan, there are a thousand counterbalancing acts of staggering generosity and humanity and art and beauty happening all over the world, right now, on a breathtaking scale, from flower box to cathedral... Resist the temptation to drown in fatalism, to shake your head and sigh and just throw in the karmic towel... Realize that this is the perfect moment to change the energy of the world, to step right up and crank your personal volume:; right when it all seems dark and bitter and offensive and acrimonious and bilious... there's your opening. Remember magic. And, finally, believe you are part of a groundswell, a resistance, a seemingly small but actually very very large impending karmic overhaul, a great shift, the beginning of something important and potent and unstoppable. (Mark Morford )

>>> Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.  (Etty Hillesum)

LINKS

PHOTOGRAPHY & DESIGN

Barry Michlin Photography

DHJazz Design - Web & Graphic Design

MUSICIANS

Jay Clayton - Vocalist & Educator