Welcome to my experimental blog. Here you may find links to interesting or useful articles, and meet individuals whom I think have helped decrease misery, or added beauty and happiness in this world.

 

 

 

Thought for The Day:

 

“Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience': They're talking to a single person all the time.”

― Robert Graves

 

Check out the Great Barrington Declaration.

 

 

 

Birthdays:

 

 

Christoph Demantius (1567 – 1643):  Five Polish and German Dances

 

 

David Teniers the Younger (1610 – 1690) 

 

 

Michel Richard Delalande (1657 – 1726): Grand Motet De Profundis

 

 

Edwin Blashfield (1848 – 1936)

 

 

Henri Becquerel (1852 – 1908)

 

 

J. Paul Getty (1892 – 1976)

 

 

Betty Smith (1896 – 1972)