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What nourishes you in the middle of a Pandemic? What nourishes you when political forces take a dark turn and plunge us into a past that should be long forgotten? For me it is Poetry – Poetry and Music that soothe my soul and the beauty all around me – flowers…
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What I know – what I know is – Love will find a way. Conflict in your life? Say this – Love will find a way. Anxious? Say this in your heart and mind – Love will find a way. It does. It will. Somehow it opens your heart…
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Every June, there are two wonderful weekends of beautiful Music at the Cathedral in downtown St. Augustine, with the greatest acoustics and world class musicians, it is heavenly! Handel, Mozart, Haydn, what can I say? Thank You! The Saint Augustine Music Festival, Saturday night.
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The stage lights at the Gipsy Kings' concert on Thursday night! St. Augustine Amphitheater. A good time was had by all!
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This photograph was an Astronomy Picture of the Day, on March 14, 2015. It shows a Russian Spacecraft carrying three astronauts, one American and two Russians, returning from the International Space Station over a sea of golden clouds. You don't hear much about cooperation between these two nations, but…
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Beautiful! Fifteen minutes later, and you can see Mars… Another fifteen minutes and it's nighttime… Venus is the brightest star. Mars is just above. Tonight Mars will move closer to Venus, but the moon will be farther away. Crescent Moon, with Venus and Mars,…
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"So many songs about rain, I don't know which one to sing first. La la la la la…" "Where'd everybody go?" Lizard, about to sing in the rain, on the deck, St. Augustine, Florida.
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St. Augustine Music Festival, at the Cathedral Basilica, the last night, Mozart and more Mozart! Sublime. The sound of the strings in this church is so wonderful, it transports you to another time and place. Oboe and horn are also just as wonderful! Piano too. Thank you to SAMF Chamber Orchestra,…
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Clap your hands if you believe in faeries… Ladew Gardens meets Peter Pan.
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Music, that strange juxtaposition of sounds – melodies and harmonies and syncopations - is as ephemeral as the wind. Bette Davis once said that music was the one thing that she could not live without. It's a kind of magic soup that is cooked up by wizards of many stripes - from…