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Created on 2012-10-17 15:10:26 (#1754124), last updated 2020-09-20 (251 weeks ago)
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| Name: | philosophymom |
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| Website: | My about.me profile |
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| Absent-minded professor, avocational musician, inveterate reader, ecumenical Christian, liberal Democrat, erstwhile DJ, doting Grandma, and Baker Street Irregular. |
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| General: music, piano, singing, philosophy, theology, reading, mysteries, Sherlock Holmes, film, radio, Scotland, Italy, baseball, cricket, food & wine | |
| Musical: classical, choral, opera, Great American Songbook, Hot Club jazz, Mozart, Verdi, Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Bryn Terfel, Alan Menken, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Randy Newman, Harry Nilsson, Max Raabe & the Palast Orchester | |
| Literary: Don Camillo, Sherlock Holmes, P.G. Wodehouse, G.K. Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, Anita Brookner, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ngaio Marsh, Josephine Tey, Terry Pratchett, some Heinlein, A Canticle for Leibowitz | |
| Cinematic: Cinema Paradiso, Jean de Florette, The Artist, Casablanca, Roman Holiday, The Thin Man, My Man Godfrey, Notorious, Shall We Dance?, Topsy-Turvy, Kurosawa, Pixar | |
| Small-screen: Stephen Colbert, John Oliver, Seth Meyers, Samantha Bee, The West Wing, The Simpsons, Star Trek (all), Doctor Who (old school), Jeeves and Wooster, Ghosts, The Good Place, Slings and Arrows | |
| Quotable: |
| "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" (Jesus - Mark 8:36) | |
| "There’s not much we can do except to be, and in being, become aware." (Richard Hunt) | |
| "Only connect." (E.M. Forster, Howard's End) | |
| "It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It's the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our very being is good stuff." (Fred Rogers) | |
| "There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning." (Louis L'Amour, Lonely on the Mountain) | |
| "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sherlock Holmes - Doyle, The Sign of Four) | |
| “'But it isn't easy,' said Pooh. 'Because Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.'” (A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner) | |
| "If only we could cultivate the spirit of cricket in all our dealings, one with the other. It is not far from the spirit of Christ." (Dr. Stuart Barton Babbage, Dean of St Paul's Cathedral Melbourne, in a sermon given during the 5th test of 1960-61) | |
| "[A]ll of life, as we know it, moves in little, unavailing circles. More justly than to anything else, it can be likened to the game of baseball. Crack! we hit the ball, and away we go. If we earn a run (in life we call it success) we get back to the home plate and sit upon a bench. If we are thrown out, we walk back to the home plate -- and sit upon a bench." (O. Henry, "Sociology In Serge And Straw") | |
| "Begin anywhere." (John Cage) | |
| “When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years, which you have, all that time, idiot-like, been saying over and over, you'll not talk about the joy of words. I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?” (C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces) |
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