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I Have A Dream

amchaar68 — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:50:01 +0100

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."

IN THE DARK

Angelcat2006 — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100

IN THE DARK WHEN YOU FIND YOURSELF FACED WITH A LOW HEART CLOSE YOUR EYES AND TRAVEL BEYOND SEA AND EARTH FIND WITH YOUR SOUL THOUGH A THOUSAND MILES IN A FAR FAR AWAY PLACE THE ONE WHO GIVES YOU A SMILE WHEN YOU FIND YOURSELF SOMEWHERE IN

THE DARK LOOK FOR THE LIGHT IN YOUR SOUL AND FIND ME WITH THE SPARK TO LEAD YOU INTO THE LIGHT CHASING AWAY ALL THE DARKNESS WITH A HEART AND SOUL TO FILL YOU WITH COMPLETE HAPPINESS

Master Mage Apprentice

Angelcat2006 — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100

Leaning on his hands over his hoe, Calin stared at Thoronton Province in the distance and remembered how much his mother loved to walk the streets, look into the shops, and talk with

everyone she met. He remembered the night the fever took her from them. How she had made him promise to follow his heart no matter what. What was he doing about it? He was never going to change his destiny digging holes in the dirt planting potatoes. He felt a thud to the back of his head a [...]

Words of Wisdom

amchaar68 — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:04:40 +0100

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom." Martin Luther King, Jr.

Poetry Out Loud: 2010 Competition!

amchaar68 — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:28:53 +0100

"I was kind of nervous about doing my job... Can you imagine yourself as a teenager trying out?"

A Poetry Out Loud Interview with Elizabeth Seydel Morgan

Poetry Out Loud logoWith the state finals of the 2010 Poetry Out Loud National Recitation Competition under way around the country, Poetry Daily has been following the competition in [...]

Treat Women Well

amchaar68 — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:01:59 +0100

“God enjoins you to treat women well, for they are your mothers, daughters, aunts.”

3/27/09 To 4/3/09

amchaar68 — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 03:07:29 +0100

All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naïve. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: that I am nobody bu [...]

A New Creativity?

amchaar68 — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:34:27 +0100

Now that the days of glitz and glamour in the art market are over, how will creativity be affected? Some

artists, curators, museum directors, and dealers predict a new seriousness. Others warn against bohemian fantasy. But all agree the conversation has changed
by Ann Landi
In year-end summaries of the best and worst in [...]

3/20/09 To 3/27/09

amchaar68 — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:21:59 +0100

"I am essentially a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquillity and privacy, moods which I have always valued above all else."Giorgio Morandi

Lemon Trees and Security Walls Life Under Conflict in Palestine

amchaar68 — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:32:03 +0100

By Arwa Aburawa
Freelance Journalist - UK
Title: Lemon Tree
Year: 2008
Director: Eran Riklis
Leads: Hiam Abbass, Ali Suliman, Doran Tovery and Rona Lipaz-Michael
Language: Arabic and Hebrew
Length: 106 minutes
"Trees are like people, they have souls, they have feelings. They need to be talked to, need tende [...]

US Museums Cutting Jobs

amchaar68 — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:15:45 +0100

By Christine Kearney
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Museums in New York and Philadelphia are cutting jobs, slashing salaries and closing stores because their endowments have been pounded by declines in donations, government aid and investment returns.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is closing 15 of its merchandising stores across the United States, lea [...]

3/13/2009 To 3/20/2009

amchaar68 — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:56:56 +0100

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out.... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. ~A.E. Housman

3/6/09 To 3/13/09

amchaar68 — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 20:32:25 +0100

The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem." ~Robert Penn Warren, "The Themes of Robert Frost," Hopwood Lecture, 1947

Waltz of War Movie Review

amchaar68 — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 20:21:36 +0100

By Bibi Ayesha Wadvalla
Freelance Writer - South Africa
The human mind is capable of suppressing painful memories to the extent that they are all obliterated. But these memories can lie dormant for years then reactivate to plague the plethora of our consciousness.
Such is the story of Ari Folman, an Israeli film director, who has [...]

2/27/09 to 3/6/09

amchaar68 — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 02:47:08 +0100

“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today” Malcolm X

I Remember!

ezreach — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 02:21:01 +0100

I remember, still vividly as if it had happened just yesterday!
I remember the distinctive ring of my tiny mobile phone especially persistent on this night with it vibration bringing about unusual shiver [...]

L'UJS Toulouse termine en beauté (Futsal, championnat de France)

amchaar68 — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:06:48 +0100

Pour sa dernière sortie à domicile d'un championnat national à 6 groupes, l'UJS Toulouse a franchi en beauté l'avant dernière marche (face à Balaruc 6-3) d'un parcours qui le propulsera peut-être, à l'instar de Bruguières, l'autre représentant régional, dans un championnat d'élite à poule unique que la FFF appelle de ses voeux. Découverte.
LE CONTEXTE
Des dirigeants qui intervie [...]

Does It Matter?

Angelcat2006 — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Does it matter?Does it matter what my size of body or that I am my size so I can carry this big of a heart? Does it matter my age or that my age shows my years of experience and knowledge? Does it matter my level of education or that I am educated enough to teach others? Does it matter what I write or that I am a writer no matter the subject? Does it matter the color of my eyes or that I can see clearly those things hidden from view? Does it matter that I loved or t [...]

Between Slums and Underdogs? Movie Review

amchaar68 — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 02:33:51 +0100

By Deepa A.
Indian Freelance Writer

Title: Slumdog Millionaire
Year: 2008
Director: Danny Boyle
Leads: Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Madhur Mittal
Language: English, Hindi

It has now become almost impossible to view Slumdog Millionaire as just another movie. It arrived on a wave of critical acclaim, wowing film festiva [...]

Sudanese Novelist Tayeb Salih Died

amchaar68 — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 02:26:55 +0100

By Alaa Shahine KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese novelist Tayeb Salih, who won fame with his 1966 novel Season of Migration to the North, died in London Wednesday, a friend and associate said.

Salih, who was born in northern Sudan in 1929, died around dawn, Ezzat el-Kamhawy, editor of

the Egyptian literary publication Akhbar al-Adab [...]