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...

 

 

"When the well is dry, we know the worth of water."

 

— Benjamin Franklin

 

 

Check out the Great Barrington Declaration.

 

 

 

Birthdays:

 

 

Ovid (43 BC – 17/18 AD)

 

 

Emanuele d'Astorga (1680 – 1757):  Stabat Mater

 

 

Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741 – 1828)

 

 

Henrik Ibsen (1828 – 1906)

 

 

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 – 1943):  Prelude in C sharp minor, Op. 3/2, and Vocalise