Category Archives: The Coffee Table

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The melody of fate

Posted on March 27, 2011 by Michaela

“Fado” is the Portugese word for “fate”. It is a form of music characterized by mournful tunes and lyrics, often about the sea or the life of the poor. Portugal’s political crisis and potentially being the next domino to fall in … Continue reading →

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Make yourself pure, my heart

Posted on March 27, 2011 by Michaela

Johann Sebastian Bach St Matthew Passion BWV 244 Mache dich, mein Herze, rein, Make yourself pure, my heart Ich will Jesum selbst begraben, I want to bury Jesus himself within me, Denn er soll nunmehr in mir For he now … Continue reading →

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Patience

Posted on March 26, 2011 by Michaela

Matthäus Passion BWV 244 (Helmuth Rilling) Geduld! Patience! Wenn mich falsche Zungen stechen. Even if false tongues stab me. Leid ich wider meine Schuld If I should suffer contrary to my guilt Schimpf und Spott, Abuse and mockery Ei, so … Continue reading →

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Do you have free will ?

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Michaela

by John Tierney Suppose that Mark and Bill live in a deterministic universe. Everything that happens this morning — like Mark’s decision to wear a blue shirt, or Bill’s latest attempt to comb over his bald spot — is completely … Continue reading →

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Unending Love

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Michaela

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times… In life after life, in age after age, forever. My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs, That you take as a gift, wear round your … Continue reading →

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A sip of life…

Posted on March 21, 2011 by CatrinPhoto

 

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The Moon

Posted on March 19, 2011 by Michaela

   THE MOON by Justme As ancients seen, so do I A throbbing light, a painted globe Upon a pinpricked sparkled sky Suspended in the nothingness of black. Always there, poetic universal rhyme Dangling upon an invisible track Of time … Continue reading →

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The illusion of crescendo

Posted on March 19, 2011 by Michaela

Daniel Barenboim on the difference between sound and music.  A spiritual teaching

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Isn’t it rich ?

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Michaela

Patricia Petibon sings Stephen Sondheim’s “Send in the Clowns”

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The Beauty of Form

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Michaela

  A neglected eighty-eight butterfly (Diaethria neglecta) in Brazil’s Pantanal displays the design of lines and dots that gave it its unusual common name. Source: National Geographic

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