You can find the lyrics to the song here:
https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/02/21/nina-simone-time/
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From Brain Pickings – The Snail with the Right Heart: A True Story
I expect that the viewpoint of this particular article could bother some folks – depending on how one sees the world. I found it thought-provoking.
This posting led me to do some investigating of my own. I was taken up by the science involved, and the apparent universality of some mathematical concepts in nature. I learnt about the concept of Chirality – about how chirality appears in nature, and how chirality extends even down to the genetic and atomic level. In general terms, left-handedness and right-handedness in nature can sometimes even lead to widely different properties of the objects in question. I also looked into how the Golden Mean, or the Golden Ratio, manifests itself in the world – even in the shapes of snail shells!
Go ahead and look it all up. The natural world is fascinating.
The Christmas Truce of 1914: A Heartening Story of Humanity in the Middle of the War: Brain Pickings
As If to Demonstrate an Eclipse: Comedian Chuck Nice Reads Billy Collins’s Ode to the Quiet Wellspring of Gratitude – Brain Pickings
Dylan Thomas: Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Astronaut Leland Melvin reads “The Chilean Forest” by Pablo Neruda
via Astronaut Leland Melvin reads “The Chilean Forest” by Pablo Neruda on Vimeo
You can access the text being read out by following this link to the particular article in Brain Pickings.
One does not even have to go as far away as Chile to experience these kinds of emotions.
Perhaps it is time for me to get back on my bike and ride!.
PS. These pictures are not new. They have appeared in previous blogs.
Big Wolf & Little Wolf: A Tender Tale of Loneliness, Belonging, and How Friendship Transforms Us | Brain Pickings
Very sweet! I am going to have to find this book in the library.
Against the Slippery Slope of Injustice: Amanda Palmer Reads Wendell Berry’s Stunningly Prescient Poem “Questionnaire” – Brain Pickings
“The road to moral hell is paved with gradual self-permission.” …Maria Popova
I have maintained for a little while now that we will look back at some of the things that we ourselves did as a part of civilization today, things that we take for granted, and wonder how we ever thought that it was the right thing to do. And sometimes we will even swallow our nagging sense of injustice so that it will not be disruptive to our own sense of well being. It is true that we can learn through history, but there is never an end to this process, it seems. When will true justice be really served?
The Universe in Verse: Astrophysicist Natalie Batalha reads “Renascence” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
A Brave and Startling Truth: Astrophysicist Janna Levin Reads Maya Angelou’s Stunning Humanist Poem That Flew to Space, Inspired by Carl Sagan – Brain Pickings
I recommend that you read, or listen to, the entire poem.
“…………………………
When we come to it
We, this people, on this wayward, floating body
Created on this earth, of this earth
Have the power to fashion for this earth
A climate where every man and every woman
Can live freely without sanctimonious piety
Without crippling fear
When we come to it
We must confess that we are the possible
We are the miraculous, the true wonder of this world
That is when, and only when
We come to it.”
If you did not watch the video of Carl Sagan’s “Pale Blue Dot”, you can do it here.
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