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Scooterdude philosophical
"The Handwriting on the Wall"
rating: 10
Just look it up in wikipedia.
Came across this 18th Century political cartoon
(modified it slightly to reflect the contemporary conditions)
Not much else needs to be said.
Except a . . . more
Scooterdude commented on a photo by Scooterdude o. Oct 13, 2008 8:11PM EDT "Thanks, Clare, for your interest. I suspected that there might be some connection with the Nineteenth-Century cartoon about the 'Handwriting' and searched. ( I admit to adding the ' Uncle Sam' . . ." more
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Favorite Music, Artists, Genres:
"There's only two kinds of music,
good and bad." -Duke Ellington,
I like good music,
and I know it when I hear it.,
But,
as long as I'm thinking about it,
maybe....Bach Brandenburg Concertos,
Rodrigo Concierto de l'Aranjuez,
Stravinsky Petrouchka,
Renaissance Festival Dance Music,
Copland's Appalachian Spring,
Faure Pavanne,
Ellington's Crescendo & Diminuendo,
Hendrix Voodoo Chile and All Along the Watchtower,
Clannadh Magical Ring,
and on and on,
on...
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Favorite Books, Writers, Genres:
books by creative and beautiful people,
of any age,
culture,
or class,
published or unpublished. books of truth,
wisdom and beauty,
but,
now that I think about it,
W. Law's Spirit of Prayer/Spirit of Love,
The Greatest Thing in the World by Henry Drummond; Abandonnement to Divine Providence by Jean-Pierre de Caussade; The Life of God in the Soul of Man by Henry Scougal; The Tao Te Ching and Wisdom of Lao Tse; Gandhi: On Non-Violence by Thomas Merton; The Children Come Running poems ed. Elizabeth Coatsworth; Centuries by Thomas Traherne; The Family of Man; Lord of the Rings,
ancient writers,
like the writer who 'wrote' the Gilgamesh Epic,
story-tellers and myth-makers,
oral and written traditions!,
And,
again,
as I think about it more,
there's Origen,
Pseudo-Dionysius,
the Author of the Cloud of Unknowing,
St. John of the Cross,
William Law,
Edward d'Vere,
Earle of Oxford,
Emerson,
Thoreau,
Whitman,
Jacob Boehme,
Meister Eckhart,
Thomas Traherne; D.T. Suzuki; JRR Tolkein;sayings of Mother Theresa of Calcutta; the Dalai Lama
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Interests and Activities:
Music-Piano,
Cello,
flute,
percussion,
singing,
dancing!,
Art- Painting,
printing,
museums,
Writing; And,
of course,
Scooter-Tricks,
Figure-Scooting & Scooter Sailing,
Scooter-racing,
Figure-Scooting,
Scooter-Sailing! But,
you can see for yourself...:,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvBONG_1DWw,
and,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfi7PmUOL-c
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