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Solitude
Yearning for Solitude,Where thoughts and body converge,In the comfort of my own skin. Through meditation, yoga, reflection,Or the allure of a majestic landscape,Or a quaint object that sparks memoryTransporting me to places of delight and wonder. In those moments, my thoughts expandDreaming takes flight,And I’m present in the here and now. Colors surround me,Gazes linger…
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The Jacket
In nurturing spaces we are encouraged to try things out of our comfort zone, or things that seems outside of ourselves became wonderful and failure’s cliff doesn’t seem as steep; ready to be leapt off into refreshing water; try it without attachment. Put on and take off, like a jacket.
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It is beginning to look alot like Christmas
This Blog is about performance art and Christmas in Strasbourg The Implosion One can suffer a lifetime of damnation with pleasantries. ~reflections on indecisiveness Robust, strong Gaelic rock music loudly consumed my ears, but controversially I pondered sin and the burden of separation from our creator. The dichotomy music that stirs one’s spirits and…
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Where is your Treasure?
*This specific blog is a reflections on travels to Scotland and Amsterdam *I use these scripture verses because in them I see much of myself and because my travels have enlightened their truths and accuracy of my life at this moment. For where your treasure there your heart will be also. The eye is the…
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HASTE YE BACK
There is nothing like a cascade to calm a man’s passions like scottish mountains to tame his wondering thoughts like passing clouds to fill his desire like vibrant green fields to hold his focus like old trees to connect and root him like large boulders…
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Gumby goes to Selstat
Firstly, I apologize for my delayed post! two weeks ago I took a day trip Selstat, because my host had advised me of a beautiful castle (Haut-Kronesingbourg Castle and a monkey sanctuary called the Mountain of monkies) there. However, when I went to the bus station they said that there were no direct buslines, only…
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Le sens commun nést pas si commun
Music Music Music: Warning this week’s blog is a lot of music. The Musica Festival was established in 1982 to celebrate and present to “the curious audience” contemporary classical music by established and up-and-coming composers. The music explores themes that, until now, I did not know could be expressed musically. The overarching themes of loss…
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avoir le coeur sur les lèvres
It is covered in locks. Locks between the iron cross-hatched bridge. I want some keys so that I might open these padlock hearts on the place used to cross an obstacle (in this case water). I wanted to discover these locks intimately and inspect their background, their lives which I will never know, their social…
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Bonne renommée vaut mieux que ceinture doée
Today’s idiom means “a good name is better than wealth” or literally, “a good name is worth more than a golden girdle.” Last week at a house party with some locals, our discussion lead to the question “what do we value in life?” This arose from a personal fascination between value placement and the feminine/masculine…
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Entre le marteau et L’enclume
A friend, Jordan Rawling, from Moscow is letting me borrow two books to help me with my study abroad, they are explaining french idioms, for which there are much! We met at a coffee shop before I left and stumbled our way through French. The title means literally “between the hammer and the anvil,” it…
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