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 1 Nov 2007 @ 09:51
Debating Democrats quote of the year must be:
"There are more people who have seen UFO's than support Bush" !
The Line Up was there demonstrating an internal party robustness replete with charming regional twangs of intonation. Someone mentioned in addition to UFO the word Anglo Saxon too. The differential twangs rarely cross the Atlantic and so we miss out on the essential lyricism integral to the " 'States ". A longer airing of this banter would have been interesting and possibly enjoyable.
Nraye More >
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 21 May 2007 @ 15:51
After Athens fell first in 400 BC to the Spartans for 3 years, and later to Philip, and then sundry other ruling persons, the schools of learning set up across the Hellenized world.
The light of the authors paramount continued to shine even 550 years later for the Alexandrines who continued the traditions in their own styles to add yet more diversity to the whole development of thought.
Two final themes emerge in the embers of this Art which commenced outside the walls of Troy immortalised by Homer. The themes are the emergence of Romance, Love simple and pure for the people, king and peasant alike, and the incomparable works of St John the Divine, The Revelations, for which inspiration is considered the epitome of Love Sublime and Divine. More >
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 23 Jan 2007 @ 07:53
Antique embroidery from the Aegean, continuing the thousands' year old tradition of weaving and embroidery. Weaving surely hope for safe return, or better still no campaigns at all.
Why have children if they sent to war aged a mere 20 years? What does this say for Life? and Living? What about a society where this is entrenched in its thought? How can those Mothers and Fathers take part in normal happy life?
For a long time there has been a sense that sewing and embroidery signifies and emphatic positive outlook and becomes a bit of holy talisman. And it has been similarly said and felt concerning the patchwork tradition for instance, and also the sampler, a cross stitch design of home and showing belonging in place and time, framed and placed in hallways and corridors for all to see. More >
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