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So if you decided to participate, why not do it in a blaze of glory Lady Gaga style!
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The Art Of Trading Art by Michael R. Whipple
Only you get the game and you know your purpose then you can write up a step by step plan for attainment. You can orient your entire life to that game. You can eliminate all factors that do not align with your purpose. You will immediately realize who your real team members are and what you are going to do. You can completely give your life to that purpose and that game. What would you think of a football player who was flirting with the girls in the stands or watching the cheerleaders when the ball went into play? It is amazing how many people miss the boat because they forgot where they were going or could not miss their favorite TV show.
Boris L. Pasternak – Collection of Images by Garland E. Harris
I have become seriously fascinated by Boris L. Pasternak, the man, the poet, the writer of the famous Dr. Zhivago and survivor of war and revolution in Stalin’s Russia. Here is a partial gallery of his images. Many are thoughtful to the point of brooding. I will include an image that I found “buried beneath the ruble” of an old warehouse in a crumpled box. I have owned this fine art giclee’ print for over ten years. I am auctioning it off on a site called BarterBounty.com over several days so it’s not too late. I have searched extensively and have not found another copy of this fine art print anywhere. As far as I know this is the only one in extant today.
“Gentle On My Mind” Songwriter John Hartford Inductee to IBMA Awards
Hello is, its me, ELHarris
I wanted to pass along this insightful bit of information I I read on the web:
It talks about a legend in the Bluegrass music industry and it says that he was inspired to write this song. You may have heard it, “Gentle On My Mind”. It is unprecedented what happened after he went and say the movie, Dr. Zhivago. How did it affect you?
Once again the influence of the man Boris L. Pasternak’s work make a mark on the world in so many ways. John Hartford in turned made a huge impact on the American music industry. Mr. Hartford really lived the life that Boris could only write about. What do you thing was the one thing that that Mr. Hartford took with him as he walked out of that movie theater watching Dr. Zhivago? I searched for more information on Mr. Hartford, because I want to find out what he saw, heard, and believed after the movie?
Let’s live and give our lives to enrich others as these men have. Lets leave greatness that edifies, builds up, and encourages one another.
IBMA Awards Bluegrass Hall of Fame Induction of John Hartford
John Hartford was an American original—a musician, songwriter, steamboat pilot, author, artist, disc jockey, calligrapher, dancer, folklorist, father and historian. Born John Cowan Harford in New York on December 30, 1937, John grew up in St. Louis. A descendent of Patrick Henry and cousin of Tennessee Williams, John’s grandfather was a founder of the Missouri Bar Association and his father was a prominent doctor. At an early age John fell in love with two things: music and the Mississippi River, and these two passions would last a lifetime.
Pasternak Quotes
They don’t ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
On Soviet bureaucrats, in LIFE magazine (13 June 1960)
Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.
LIFE magazine (13 June 1960)
The Auction – The Old is New Again – by Garland E. Harris
According to Wikipedia: An auction is a process of buying and selling goods or services by offering them up for bid, taking bids, and then selling the item to the highest bidder. In economic theory, an auction may refer to any mechanism or set of trading rules for exchange. Perhaps the most exciting variation on the auction theme is the so called “penny auction”, e.g., Barter Bounty, which adds the “Going Once, Going Twice, Sold!” component to the online auction process in a time dependent way that gets the blood going.
Dr. Zhivago Nobel Prize Winner
Hello it is me, ELHarris:
In my previous posts I told you how, as an impressionable youth I’d read the book and see the movie; “Dr. Zhivago” and the impact it made for me. It was a turbulent time in American history, I was in high school and so the perfect time for the seeds of rebellion were sprouting. Enter stage left an epic like Dr. Zhivago with its loneliness, individuality, and corrupted misdirected revolution themes all rolled up with several love triangles and yes we have a winner. A Russian tragedy. So why was it a Pulitzer Prize winner? Humankind surely loves all of the “drama”, don’t you think? Then the movie wins 5 Emmy’s, that is not bad. So my question, is it that “life comes at you fast” and we want to relive in over and over through different medias?
Lets see what it takes to get a Pulitzer,,,,
Although it contains passages written in the 1910s and 1920s, Doctor Zhivago was not completed until 1956. The novel was submitted to the journal “Новый Мир” (Novy Mir, Russian for both New World and New Peace) and rejected because Pasternak’s political viewpoint was opposed by the Soviet authorities. The author, like Zhivago, showed more concern with the welfare of individuals than with the welfare of society. Soviet censors construed some passages as anti-Marxist. There are implied criticisms of Stalinism and references to prison camps. In 1957, the Italian publisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli smuggled the book manuscript out of the Soviet Union thanks to Isaiah Berlin and simultaneously published editions in both Russian and Italian in Milan, Italy. It was published in English (translated from Russian by Manya Harari and Max Hayward) the next year and was eventually published in a total of eighteen different languages. The publication of this novel was partly responsible for Pasternak’s being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958. The Soviet government asked the committee not to award him the prize. Pasternak was pressured by Soviet authorities to reject the Nobel Prize in order to prevent a scandal in the Soviet Union [3]. Pasternak died on 30 May 1960, of natural causes.
Doctor Zhivago was finally published in the Soviet Union in 1988, in the pages of Novy mir, although earlier samizdat editions existed.
Ferdie Pacheco – Humphrey Bogart in Key Largo
I live in South Florida and have been to Key Largo many times on my way to Islamorada which is my favorite Florida Key. I have also stayed at the Marriott Key Largo, which is a wonderful hotel right on the Gulf of Mexico. In Key Largo you can get as sunrise on the ocean and a sunset on the gulf. The famous Bertie Higgins’ song, “Key Largo” can be heard often by local troubadours
The Ferdie Pacheco Art Discovery by Garland E. Harris
Deep in the bowels of a warehouse that I have had for over three years now, was a dusty old box of semi-exposed prints. I opened the box and fondly remembered the images on the prints that were originally printed by Dr. Ferdie Pacheco, the famous, fight doctor for Muhammad Ali. I think I remember trading hotel accommodations at the Hedonism Resort in Negril, Jamaica for those prints, but that is a different story. (No, I have never personally stayed there.) I put them in the SUV and thought that it would be fun to look at them again. I promptly forgot about them after bringing them home in the rush of all the things I get to do everyday…
World’s Most Dangerous Man…
A man that has no fear juggles a ball that is on fire! He doesn’t only use his hands and the ball it not only on fire! Wha else could there possibly be to make him so dangerous?