Ears To Hear and Eyes to See

Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic. ~ Jean Sibelius Quote From Kate Is Rising Sculptur [...]

A few years ago I went to visit Morocco for a week and a half.  The Hassan II  Mosque in Casablanca has beautiful handmade designs inside and out. [...]

"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions."  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. I found this on Jonathan Johnso [...]

"Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens." Andy Rooney The Invisible Princess on Amazon [...]

[...] as bad as my obsession with Harry Potter. Then I ran across David Blight's course Hist 119: The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 free on Itunes.  Find course here or on Itunes.  I became [...]

[...] In an earlier post I wrote about the free Civil War and Reconstruction class I'm taking from Yale Open Courses.  The class is taught by Professor [...]

[...] for the dead and their families, but mostly didn't think about it.  Since I've been studying the Civil War, I have less cloudy mental vision of the dead and wounded.  I've learned they were average [...]

[...] If you're interested you can take the Civil War and Reconstruction class with David Blight on Youtube.  There are 27 video classes of about an [...]

[...] available on Itunes and here. During the past few days I've tried to get through Hospital Sketches by Louisa May Alcott.  Alcott wrote some books for adults.  Alcott told of her [...]

[...] Could Not Stave Off Defeat Gary Gallagher Battle Cry of Freedom James M. McPherson Hospital Sketches Louisa May Alcott Abraham Lincoln, Slavery, and the Civil War Michael P. Johnson [...]

[...] looking for poets and poetry, but I'd never heard of him.  I live in Maryland.  Stanley Plumly is the Director of Creative Writing at the University of Maryland and the Poet Laureate of [...]

[...] how it is.  I just hope it's not like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's continuation of The Sherlock Holmes Mysteries after he had killed off Sherlock Holmes.  The Adventure of the Empty House  [...]

[...] " on page 35 of the softcover that was published in 2001.  I read a lot of Sherlock Holmes mysteries and am familiar with "The Adventure of The Copper Beaches" by Sir [...]

[...]  Doubleday must have met his price, you know how it is.  I just hope it's not like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's continuation of The Sherlock Holmes Mysteries after he had killed off Sherlock [...]

[...] mysteries and am familiar with "The Adventure of The Copper Beaches" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.  The poem compares Holmes' and Watson's ways of being and perceiving. "Conan [...]

[...] post I wrote about the free Civil War and Reconstruction class I'm taking from Yale Open Courses.  The class is taught by Professor David Blight.  It is available on Itunes and here. [...]

If you're interested you can take the Civil War and Reconstruction class with David Blight on Youtube.  There are 27 video classes of about an hour [...]

[...] Malika Zarra is a Moroccan jazz singer. [...]