February 2012
Lucinda Williams & Carol Fran
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Join us and cruise the Gulf Coast Highway with Deep South singer, songwriter Lucinda Williams as she talks about her connection with traditional music, her writing style and sense of place. Plus, Lafayette, Louisiana R&B chanteuse and pianist Carol Fran comes by the studio for conversation and a special...
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– Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
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me with my sixty years of rings...”
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“And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always...”
– “knowledge is power”
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James Cotton, “Call It Stormy Monday”
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“Fact explains nothing. On the contrary, it is fact that requires explanation.”
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“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old,...”
– Socrates (via semperaugustus)
“Human use, population, and technology have reached that certain stage where...”
– The Dalai Lama (via bohemiansouth)
untraveling:
“A truth should exist, it should not be used like this. If I love you is that a fact or a weapon?”
Margaret Atwood
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John Lee Hooker, “Tupelo”
“There is no mystery in things, but there is a mystery of things… They are...”
– Clement Rosset, “Reality and the Unthinkable”
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“Under the water the wood duck
feels with his foot in the creek.”
– Annie Dillard
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“Fire, air, water — are they thus to be dominated by the earth?
Is fire...”
– Irigaray
What is Necessary
mythologyofblue:
What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours - that is what you must be able to attain.
-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a young poet
(adapted from chromaticities)
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“I love with my hand, not my heart.
When I draw your face,
my fingers trace...”
– Annie Dillard
musicure:
Counting Crows - Mr. Jones -
come...
“He who delights in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.”
– Francis Bacon (via arrow-and-oracle)
“In the thickets of language every creature is wild.”
– Ivan Vladislavić’s “Dictionary Birds”, The Loss Library and Other Unfinished Stories.
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Shrimp's Carbon Footprint Is 10 Times Greater Than... →
bohemiansouth:
Tom Philpott reports:
Marketing campaigns like Taco Bell’s, along with Red Lobster’s periodic “Endless Shrimp” promotions, crystallize shrimp’s transformation from special-treat food to everyday cheap fare. What happened? The answer lies in the rise of factory-scale shrimp farms over the last generation. Twenty years ago, 80 percent of shrimp consumed here came from domestic...
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“What would happen if the slope of this ground shifted?”
– Jennifer Bloomer,