5/10/2023 0 Comments The unbroken clark(If your friends are some of the most badass, talented artists in the world, that is).įor the country icon’s first of two back-to-back birthday concerts, officially dubbed Long Story Short: Willie 90, Willie called up some of his closest crew to ring in another year around the sun, with longtime collaborators, rock legends, and members of his Family Band alike on the bill. The Red Headed Stranger might’ve been over a thousand miles away from Spicewood, Texas, but for four hours on a Saturday night, a birthday celebration at the Bowl felt just like partying at home with close friends and family gathered around, crooning new tunes and familiar classics all night long. After all, this was Willie Nelson’s 90th birthday bash - and no one wanted to waste time. On an overcast night inside the Hollywood Bowl on April 29, the crowd had barely found their seats when Billy Strings and the band launched into “Whiskey River” at 7 p.m.
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5/10/2023 0 Comments Sweet Surrender by Ashleigh WaltonShe exercised regularly, sometimes with Cassidy, most of the time alone. She was in great shape for her forty-seven years of age. Very tall and built, she was healthy in every extent. Articulate in speech, she was highly educated and her social status remained unperturbed despite the openness of her sexuality. Her short graying hair and flashing green eyes gave her an air of sophistication that preceded her wherever she showed her presence. An austere, though highly attractive woman in her forties, she held ground in her field of work. A medical doctor and blood specialist for twenty plus years, she had become especially interested in the cause when her younger brother died of the horrid disease. Ashleigh Simmons was a very active member in the war against AIDS. 5/10/2023 0 Comments First aid kit leonard cohenHere’s what they said about why they’re finally releasing it: The two sisters of First Aid Kit bring along a host of friends as well as a massive orchestra to create what was the greatest of all the tributes that followed Cohen’s passing. Recorded during two nights at Stockholm’s Royal Dramatic Theater in 2017 and aired on Swedish TV, the concert mesmerizingly blends his hits and deep cuts with dramatic readings of Cohen’s poetry. Maybe they got sick of my constant yammering about it… It finally, belatedly, is! Who By Fire comes out March 26, containing every song from the concert. Last fall, in our Best Leonard Cohen Covers Ever article, I wrote, “It is beyond me how no record label has yet turned First Aid Kit’s magisterial 2017 tribute concert into a proper album.” Back when they first performed it, I wrote, “If they had released the soundtrack, this might have been our favorite covers album of 2017.” And pretty much every other time I’ve mentioned it, I’ve expressed my bafflement that this brilliant performance was not released as a proper album. 5/10/2023 0 Comments Patrimony by philip rothThat ordinary, crucial story is well suited to a comic master, and Mr. Similarly, imagination struggles to preserve the dying father or mother as a distinct personality with its own peculiar failed procedures and heroic measures, independent from those of an institution. Roth portrays in often ebullient detail could be summarized abstractly as the effort to keep death as it once was - a phenomenon of one particular human body and soul - and to prevent it from becoming altogether a phenomenon of Past while coping with their transformed future as dictated by the invasive, also benign pressures of modern medicine and its technologies, bureaucratically organized. In a cunningly straightforward way, "Patrimony" tells one of the central true stories many Americans share nowadays: the agonized, sometimes comic labor of a family and a dying parent who must deal with all the loyalties and grudges of their Roth's material - his father Herman Roth's struggle with a so-called benign tumor that pressesĪgainst his facial nerve and his brain, and eventually kills him. Philip Roth's subtitle, "A True Story," is un ironically accurate the homely phrase captures in spirit the ordinary dignity of Mr. January 6, 1991, Sunday, Late Edition - Finalīy Robert Pinsky Robert Pinsky's most recent books of poetry are "History of My Heart" and "The Want Bone." 5/10/2023 0 Comments Kissing Comfort by Jo GoodmanUpon making the acquaintance of Miss Tru Morrow, Cobb begins to question the guilt of this golden-haired lady-and the protective feelings she stirs in him. Intrigued as much by what Mackey won’t say about the missing item as he is by Mackey’s description of the missing woman, Cobb accepts the assignment. And the one true lie that could destroy them bothBitter Springs, Wyoming, has a new schoolteacher who may or may not be exactly what she seems. The scion of a wealthy Chicago family, Mackey is desperate to know the whereabouts of the woman who disappeared from his employ, taking with her something of great value. He was on the hunt for a runaway beauty “Find her” is the only instruction that private detective Cobb Bridger receives from Richard Mackey. 5/10/2023 0 Comments Nichomachean ethics by aristotleJudged solely in terms of his philosophical influence, only Plato is his peer: Aristotle's works shaped centuries of philosophy from Late Antiquity through the Renaissance, and even today continue to be studied with keen, non-antiquarian interest. This edition also includes an updated list for further reading and a new chronology of Aristotle’s life and works.Īristotle (384–322 B.C.) numbers among the greatest philosophers of all time. Thomson’s translation has been revised by Hugh Tredennick, and is accompanied by a new introduction by Jonathan Barnes. Aristotle’s work has had a profound and lasting influence on all subsequent Western thought about ethical matters. The Ethics also discusses the nature of practical reasoning, the value and the objects of pleasure, the different forms of friendship, and the relationship between individual virtue, society and the State. He argues that happiness consists in ‘activity of the soul in accordance with virtue’, for example with moral virtues, such as courage, generosity and justice, and intellectual virtues, such as knowledge, wisdom and insight. In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle sets out to examine the nature of happiness. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy’ ‘One swallow does not make a summer neither does one day. 5/10/2023 0 Comments Box by Min FlyteIn the newest book, Llama doesn’t want to pick up his toys and Mama Llama encourages him to imagine what their house would be like if she never cleaned. This popular series uses bouncy rhymes and colorful illustrations to share the many life lessons a little Llama learns. Llama Llama Mess Mess Mess by Anna Dewdney and Reed Duncan And despite the endless number of books to choose from on Amazon and at the library… I don’t actually know which book to buy next! Luckily, Rosemary D’Urso contributed this article with some great books that parents and children will love, to our parent site The Local Moms Network! She’s the school library-turned SAHM behind and . Follow her on Instagram see her selections, below! I love reading with my son at the end of the day, before bedtime! But I have to admit… our book selection has gotten a little stale. 5/9/2023 0 Comments Haven review emma donoghueThey moved permanently to Canada in 1998 and Donoghue became a Canadian citizen in 2004. Īt Cambridge, she met her future wife, Christine Roulston, a Canadian who is now professor of French and Women's Studies at the University of Western Ontario. Her thesis was on friendship between men and women in 18th-century fiction. While at Cambridge she lived in a women's co-operative, an experience which inspired her short story "The Welcome". She has a first-class honours Bachelor of Arts degree from University College Dublin (in English and French) and a PhD in English from Girton College, Cambridge. The youngest of eight children, she is the daughter of Frances (born Rutledge) and academic and literary critic Denis Donoghue. For this, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.ĭonoghue was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1969. Room was adapted by Donoghue into a film of the same name. She is a 2011 recipient of the Alex Awards. Donoghue's 1995 novel Hood won the Stonewall Book Award and Slammerkin (2000) won the Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction. Her 2010 novel Room was a finalist for the Booker Prize and an international best-seller. Novelist, short story writer, playwright, literary historianĮmma Donoghue (born 24 October 1969) is an Irish-Canadian playwright, literary historian, novelist, and screenwriter. 5/9/2023 0 Comments The wheel of time new springOther than that, they take place in the same order they were released. New Spring, the 11th book in the series, is a prequel set 20 years before the events of The Eye of the World. Want to join them? These are all the books in the Wheel of Time series in the order they were released: Book readers know pretty much everything that’s gonna happen. And not to shade Game of Thrones or anything, but this series is actually finished! If The Wheel of Time gets renewed for more seasons, they aren’t in danger of the show catching up to the books ending. If you’re intrigued by the show and you’ve been itching for a new fantasy series to read, I’ve got great news for you. It’s like Harry Potter meets The Hunger Games-only published way before either of those franchises were a thing. If you’ve stumbled here without having checked out the show yet (hi!), it’s about a group of five potential Chosen Ones training to take down the Big Bad. The sun will continue rising and setting regardless of what the voice says, and life will happen in accordance with greater unimaginable forces regardless of what you think about it.ģ. Much of what the inner voice says about the future is useless because life seldom unfolds in accordance with the voice. Much of What the Inner Voice Says About the Future is Useless Moreover, he aims at making us realize that the voice in our heads cannot cause stress if we know that we are separate from it.Ģ. Voice of the mind, you are the one who hears it.’ – Michael Singer: Theīy advising us that we are not the voice in our heads, Michael Singer aims at making us think about who we truly are. Is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the There are many lessons in the book, but I’ll only share with you seven major lessons. I really loved the book because it enabled me to know how the voice in my head works. Michael Singer’s book, The Untethered Soul, gives advice that will help you attain inner peace, know who you are, and be happy regardless of your circumstances. |