“What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energ...

“Change in all things is sweet.” - Aristotle   Well, after some help of some competent computer geeks at the Apple Store, my computer p...

My computer has died and taken with it all of last week's photos and work... (Yes, I know, I should back up daily - my bad). Till the...

“Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.” - Aristophanes   Today is the first day of the...

“I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it’s for or against.” Malcolm X   This week, Magpie Tales has se...

“As much horror as we have always created, we are a species that keeps moving forward, seeing new sights in new ways, and enjoying the jo...

“The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.” - George Santayana   Bottic...

“Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.” - Lao Tzu   For Music Saturday, one of the most important works of the Baroque by one ...

“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.” - Paul McCartney   For Food Friday today, an Indian Vegetarian dis...

“As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has neve...

“Thus the wise and worthy singer 
Sings not all his garnered wisdom;
Better leave unsung some sayings
Than to sing them out of season.” -...

“Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.” - Salvador Dalí   Surrealism is ...

“When good Americans when they die go to Paris.” - Thomas Gold Appleton Last weekend we watched the delightful 2011 Woody Allen film “Mi...

“Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare, social justice can never be...

“The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the imperfections of the instrument. There’s no such thing as a perfect clar...

“But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes For Food Friday, some traditional sweetmeats....

“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.” - Marcus Tullius The Parentalia , was a Roman religious festival held in h...

“I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.” ― Arthur C. Clarke What part does astrology play in your life? I...

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” - William Shakespeare   Magpie Tales has used as a prompt the painting “...

“All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.” - Spike Milligan   At the weekend we raided the specials box at t...