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The Coffee Shop – Kwabs – “Forgiven” and “Look Over Your Shoulder” (music videos)
The Coffee Shop is an open thread-style discussion forum for human interest news of the day.
Posted in Music, Short Video
Tagged Forgiven, Kwabs, Look Over Your Shoulder, Open Thread, The Coffee Shop
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Word Cloud: SOLSTICE
by Nona Blyth Cloud While Memorial Day has become the unofficial start of summer for Americans, the actual start of the season is the Summer Solstice, which this year begins at 6:34 p.m. EDT on Monday, June 20. I’ve decided … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Summer, Word Cloud
Tagged John Koethe, June, Lynda Hull, Mary Oliver, Sara Teasdale, SOLSTICE, Stacie Cassarino
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Walking with Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass – Inscriptions – Eidolons
Walking with Walt Whitman A daily installment from Leaves of Grass. ~ ❦ ~ Eidolans I met a seer, Passing the hues and objects of the world, The fields of art and learning, pleasure, sense, To glean eidolons. Put in … Continue reading
Posted in Leaves of Grass, poem, Poetry, Walt Whitman
Tagged Eidolons, Inscriptions
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Notes in Emily Dickinson’s pocket – “A wounded deer leaps highest” (Life, 8)
A wounded deer leaps highest, I ’ve heard the hunter tell; ’T is but the ecstasy of death, And then the brake is still. The smitten rock that gushes, The trampled steel that springs: A cheek is always redder Just … Continue reading
Posted in Emily Dickinson, Poetry
Tagged A wounded deer leaps highest, poem
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The Coffee Shop – Augmented Future (video)
The Coffee Shop is an open thread-style discussion forum for human interest news of the day. From Dues Ex: Open Bionics, Eidos-Montréal and Razer are working together to bring Deus Ex inspired augmentations to life. The three companies will partner … Continue reading
Posted in Short Video
Tagged 3D print, Augmented Future, bionics, design, Deus Ex, Eidos-Montréal, fashion, Open Bionics, Open Thread, prosthesis, prosthetics, Razer, robotic prosthesis, The Coffee Shop
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Owls and Lemmings – shared last meals
By ann summers It is of course a first-world conceit and problematic to talk about last meals on earth when some have trouble getting daily meals at all. OTOH don’t we all like to speculate about penultimate pleasure, except … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Cooking, environment, Health Care, Mental Health, Philosophy, Uncategorized
Tagged last meals, lemmings, Malcolm Gladwell, Nature, owls, Suicide
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Walking with Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass – Inscriptions – To Thee Old Cause
Walking with Walt Whitman A daily installment from Leaves of Grass. ~ ❦ ~ To Thee Old Cause To thee old cause! Thou peerless, passionate, good cause, Thou stern, remorseless, sweet idea, Deathless throughout the ages, races, lands, After a … Continue reading
Posted in Leaves of Grass, poem, Poetry, Walt Whitman
Tagged Inscriptions, To Thee Old Cause
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Mooseogorsky’s Windchime Rhapsody
Britta Schroeder posted this video and brief explanation: Healy, Alaska – As I lay in bed this evening, I could hear my wind chime blowing up, but when I looked out the window, not even a blade of grass budged. … Continue reading
Posted in Alaska, Humor
Tagged Bullwinkle, Moose, Mooseogorsky's Windchime Rhapsody, Nature
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Notes in Emily Dickinson’s pocket – “Within my reach!” (Life, 7)
Within my reach! I could have touched! I might have chanced that way! Soft sauntered through the village, Sauntered as soft away! So unsuspected violets Within the fields lie low, Too late for striving fingers That passed, an … Continue reading
Posted in Emily Dickinson, Poetry
Tagged poem, Within my reach
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The Coffee Shop – “L’illusion de Joseph” (video)
The Coffee Shop is an open thread-style discussion forum for human interest news of the day.
Posted in Animation, Art, Short Video
Tagged Klesha Production, L illusion de Joseph, Open Thread, phantascope, phantasmascope, phenakistiscope, phenakistoscope, phenakitiscope, The Coffee Shop
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