Animal
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
-- Mohandas Gandhi
"Nothing will benefit health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."
-- Albert Einstein
"The human appetite for animal flesh is a driving force behind virtually every major category of environmental damage now threatening the human future: deforestation, erosion, fresh water scarcity, air and water pollution, climate change, biodiversity loss, social injustice, the destabilization of communities, and the spread of disease."
-- World Watch
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Today's Gem of Wisdom
"A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses."
-- Chinese proverb
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is."
-- Albert Einstein
"Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of God no matter what the conflict."
-- Anonymous
"All prayers are answered. We need to distinguish between a prayer unanswered and one not answered how or when we would like it to be."
-- Lloyd Ogilvie
"Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare."
-- Japanese proverb
"The opportunity that God sends does not wake up him who is asleep."
-- Senegalese proverb
"Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are who already possess it."
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"Judge each day not by its harvest, but by the seeds you plant."
-- Anonymous
"A man who knows he is a fool is not a great fool."
-- Chuang-Tse
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"But of bliss and glad life there is little to be said, before it ends; as works fair and wonderful, while still they endure for eyes to see, are their own record, and only when they are in peril or broken for ever do they pass into song."
-- J.R.R. Tolkien (narration from The Silmarillion p. 95)
"Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherin we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule."
-- J.R.R. Tolkien (Gandalf, The Return of the King p. 861)
shy, thoughtful, slightly old-fashioned folks who: enjoy seriousness and silliness in equal measure; appreciate nature, artistry, and simplicity; aren't afraid to hold on to inspired ideals despite other people, life experiences, and even their own weak hearts challenging them to expect or believe in less.
Beren and Tinúviel by J.R.R. Tolkien, sung by Colin Rudd (see blog 5/9/07)
Giovanni Hidalgo with Edmar Castañeda and friends - "Timba, Timba"
and more...
Edmar Castañeda with David Silliman - "Edmar's Tune" (Berimbau)
Famoudou Konate and Koungbanà Kondè playing in Italy
Acrobats of the Sarakasi Trust
Rubén González - Siboney
SRV - Little Wing and Third Stone from the Sun (partial)
Jake Shimabukuro - While My (Ukulele) Gently Weeps
LD Miller, at 7 years old, invited to jam with Buddy Guy
Why I think audio/video editing would be fun:
And another example of clever editing:
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Me alter-ego. Arrr!
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Wai Lana and Siddha
Badenyaa
Parshuram Bhandari
Shringara Nepal
Sewa Fare
Jamarek
Abdoulaye Diakite
Mamady Keïta
Famoudou Konaté
Toumani Diabate
Gigi
Oumou Sangare
Khadja Nin
Doudou N'Diaye Rose
Babatunde Olatunji
Sikiru Adepoju
Soungalo Coulibaly
Giovanni Hidalgo
Rubén González
Lázaro Ros
Iya Ami
Strength in Numbers
Habib Koite and Bamada
Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri
Edmar Castañeda
Ayub Ogada
Imogen Heap
Jake Shimabukuro
Kodo
Kitaro
Diga Rhythm Band
Enya
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Juluka
Conjure One
Latvian Women's Choir
Mary Youngblood
R. Calos Nakai
Hamza El Din
Zakir Hussain
Flora Purim
Airto MoreÃra
Mickey Hart
Glen Velez
Stevie Ray Vaughn
LD Miller
Elisha Kemp
Karl McCord
The Lords of the Rhymes
JB and KG
GFE
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Listen to
Afro-Latin
or
Eclectic Electric
evolving daily on
Dances With Wolves
Djembefola
Madhvacharya
Quilombo
Winged Migration
Baraka
Whale Rider
reign over me
Amelie
El Laberinto Del Fauno
Contact
Stranger than FictionPunch-Drunk Love
The Motorcycle Diaries
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
Ran
Shichinin no Samurai
Kage Musha
Kung Fu Hustle
Shoalin Soccer
Ladyhawke
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
Kill Bill vol. 1
Kill Bill vol. 2
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Fight Club
Spanglish
The Fisher King
Good Will Hunting
Groundhog Day
50 First Dates
Pay It Forward
The Sixth Sense
RiffTrax
Everest
Power of Art
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
MXC
MST3k
Phillis Wheatley
Yasunari Kawabata
Edgar Allen Poe
H. P. Lovecraft
Sylvia Plath
Christina Rossetti
Theodor Seuss Geisel
Shel Silverstein
Edmond Bordeaux Székely
James Michener
A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Cheyenne Autumn
Shaka Zulu
Diet for a New America
The Food Revolution
Mad Cowboy
Allan, Greg, Cathy, Barbara, Mike, Carol, Reggie, and especially David, Wai Lana and Chris.