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Monthly Archives: June 2020
A Poem by Czeslaw Milosz in Honor of His Birth Day
Czesław Miłosz (1911-2004) was born on June 30 in Šeteniai, Lithuania, the son of a Polish civil engineer, at a time of great upheaval. He became a Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat, regarded as one of the great … Continue reading
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Tagged A Song on the End of the World, Czeslaw Milosz, Nobel Prize in Literature, World War II
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ON THIS DAY: June 29, 2020
June 29th is: Almond Buttercrunch Day Camera Day Waffle Iron Day World Scleroderma Day * International Mud Day * _____________________________________ MORE! Ellen Kuzwayo, Paul Klee and Usha Prashar, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Antoine Saint-Exupery, Ellen Kuzwayo, Emma Azalia Hackley, James VanDerZee, Kazue Togasaki, Paul Klee, Usha Prashar
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TCS: Plague Year – There is a Light Somewhere
Good Morning! ______________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early riserson Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum,so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole inyour brainpan, feel free to add a comment. ______________________________ … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Bukowski, Emily Dickinson, John Greenleaf Whittier- Churchill-Frost-Elizabeth Alexander- Joy Harjo-ClarissaPinkolaEstes, Mary Oliver, Naomi Shihab Nye, TCS: Plague Year - There is a Light Somewhere, Wendell Berry, William Stafford
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ON THIS DAY: June 28, 2020
June 28th is: Tau Day * Paul Bunyan Day Tapioca Day International Body Piercing Day Stonewall National Monument Day * ________________________________ MORE! Amira Hass, David Bowie and Sandra Bland, click
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Tagged Amira Hass, Ashley Montague, Clara Maass, David Bowie, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Sandra Bland, Yvonne Sylvain
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ON THIS DAY: June 26, 2020
June 26th is International Day in Support of Victims of Torture * Beautician’s Day National Canoe Day Chocolate Pudding Day Same Sex Marriage Day * International Day Against Drug Abuse & Illicit Trafficking * ____________________________ MORE! Gauhar Jaan, Walter Sisulu and … Continue reading
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Tagged Antonia Brico, Catherine Samba-Panza, En no Ozuno, Gauhar Jaan, Sunthorn Phu, Violette Szabo, Walter Sisulu
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Word Cloud: DISPLACED
First published in February 2017. Updated and reformatted. by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Illegal Immigrants. Aliens. Refugees. Migrants. Slave Trafficking. Words, most of them ugly, which represent an explosion of desperation among the world’s most vulnerable peoples. There are 70.8 million … Continue reading
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Tagged Displaced, Juan Felipe Herrera, Mahmoud Darwish, Migrants, Naomi Shihab Nye, Refugees, Solmaz Sharif, Warsan Shire
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ON THIS DAY: June 25, 2020
June 25th is Global Beatles Day National Catfish Day Color TV Day * World Vitiligo Day * Strawberry Parfait Day International Day of the Seafarer _________________________________ MORE! Rose O’Neill, Ho Chi Minh and Nisha Ganatra, click
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Tagged Antonio Gaudi, George Orwell, Ho Chi Minh, Marie Curie, Nisha Ganatra, Rose O’Neill, Sonia Sotomayor
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A Poem for International Fairy Day
Some topics just call out for “old-fashioned” poetry – the kind that rhymes, and tells a story. Fairies are right up there on that list of themes. Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) – prolific English poet, and fiction author, best … Continue reading
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Tagged A Poem for International Fairy Day, Arthur Rackham, The Fairies Dancing, Walter de la Mare
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