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You don't know what you got til it's gone 25 Feb 2011 | 10:48 am
“Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you got ‘til it’s gone…” Joni Mitchell I apologize for the lack of fresh copy from this blog for the past two months, as it’s been a busy time at...
They roared their terrible roars 21 Dec 2010 | 08:06 am
“…they roared their terrible roars, and gnashed their terrible teeth, and rolled their terrible eyes, and showed their terrible claws!” Maurice Sendak Traveling for the holidays is just around the co...
We make a living by what we get. 7 Dec 2010 | 05:29 am
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill When an organization is more than 98 years old as ours is, conventional wisdom calls it a treasure of the commun...
I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world 9 Nov 2010 | 03:39 am
There are a lot of reasons why it’s cool to work at The Music Settlement, and one of them is our health maintenance program. You might be surprised to learn that a community center for the arts even h...
Untitled 20 Oct 2010 | 01:50 am
“None of us really understands what is going on with all these numbers…” David Stockman on the US budget, 1981 All of us are into numbers in one way or another; it’s unavoidable in our high tech worl...
Amazing grace! How sweet the sound 23 Sep 2010 | 05:24 am
From where do we draw our strength? How do we hold ourselves up and stand tall when life is at its most challenging? A surprising number of people turn to the power of music. For some, it’s a source ...
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth 10 Sep 2010 | 06:56 am
“Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.” Carl Jung As summer is ending, a new school year is beginn...
How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this starry firmament for a roof 12 Aug 2010 | 02:14 am
“How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this starry firmament for a roof ...And are sailing the celestial spaces without leaving any track.” John Muir One of the true benefits of gro...
It was a bright cold day in April 29 Jul 2010 | 03:59 am
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” Opening line of 1984, by George Orwell I’m sure we are all responsible adults and that, for the most part, we’re able to se...
All Good Books are Alike 23 Jul 2010 | 07:22 am
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened… Ernest Hemingway I’ve noticed lately that there is a lot of media time being given to a personal entertainment option...
