G as in Good H as in Happy

If you ever doubt the world can change for the better...

March 23, 2009

Quiet Music: Preetha Naravanan, 12, practices piano at Shanti Bhavan, a residential school for disadvantaged children of India's lowest caste.

Sony World Photography Award, Subject: Music; photographer Amiran White (UK)

Lady Bird...

July, 2007

...blooming Somewhere Else but remembered here.

Happy New Epiphanies

January 7, 2007

The Feast of the Nativity in the Old Calendar. Twelfth Night, Theophany, Epiphany yesterday. The Season is ongoing. It is never too late to decide again.

When asked by a reporter something like: "What, in your opinion is the most important question facing humanity today?" Einstein thought for a bit then replied, "I think the most important question facing humanity is, 'Is the universe a friendly place?' This is the first and most basic question all people must answer for themselves.

Graphic taken from a fine photo by Daniel Coliareti

Andy Garcia, Courage, and Near Perfection of Art

June 25, 2006

Sr. Dilys agrees. Don't miss Andy Garcia's semi-biographical movie about his family in Havana, The Lost City. Beautiful, well-made, romantic, grown-up, inspiring, and heartbreaking, like life.

Don't wait for DVD! And it may not stay long, especially in "Blue" demographic centers.

Just go.

Town Lake in the Morning

June 24, 2006

Austin American Statesman photographs (here by Rodolfo Gonzalez)

are consistently remarkable. This one has been color-and-texture-adjusted afterwards in the computer by the in-house digital Art-Co for licensed private use; but the perspective, composition, and eloquently evocative subject matter were there from the beginning.

So much good work Adding Value everywhere, serving everyone!

New Music [officeniks: some sound involved]

No, not Stockhausen rubbing two cats together. It's the Chapman stick, amplified, somewhere between a guitar and a zither. Here's a video of a Bach performance. And for something else different, an animated Scarlatti score.

Via Mirabilis.

Some day Chez Dilys will decamp to a smaller villa somewhere. A Chapman stick, a palm-shaded water feature, and a small beehive. That should keep us busy and contented, musical and sticky and otherwise on our toes.

Everyday Beauty

April 25, 2006

A Fine Mandala Madness

March 15, 2006

Artist paints flowers and fruit slices.

Courtesy Neatorama, [Update:]a venue in which, once introduced, Sr. Dilys feels obliged to refine the details.

Nach dem Feuer

Trailer (click "trailer"] for beautiful, dialogue-free, Sundance-award film about Carthusians, Into Great Silence, taking as an epigraph I Kings 19:11-13.

Via Amy Wellborn

M.M. Kaye, Raj-dwelling Englishwoman who wrote, inter alia, The Far Pavilions, remembers in her autobiography the lost kingdom of places in her Indian childhood where she found pure silence, before automobiles and airplanes, before motorized appliances everywhere man lives or goes. She remembers the small pop of moonflower blossoms opening in the dark.

One Talent Only

250 today.


Centuries of innocent pleasure.

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