Soul Music

things wise and other-wise. charming follies. tunes to the beat of your soul.

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song of the day: Leonard Cohen - Avalanche

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Schloss Linderhof

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Asamkirche, Ingolstadt

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Salzburg - view from the Kapuzinerberg bastion

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painting of the day: Félix Vallotton - The Rape of Europa

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Wimbachgries

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Chris Evans for Chinese publication Modern Weekly

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painting of the day: Bernat Martorell - Sant Jordi

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i hate you, april fools day. 

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Happy (future) birthday, Jim Kirk!

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Youth (2015)

dir. Paolo Sorrentino

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painting of the day: Édouard Manet - Masked Ball at the Opera

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painting of the day: Albert Lynch - Masked Ball

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Oscar Isaac photographed for the Star Wars: The Force Awakens cast photoshoot. 

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New Year: A Dialogue

MORTAL: The night is cold, the hour is late, the world is bleak and drear; Who is it knocking at my door? THE NEW YEAR: I am Good Cheer. MORTAL: Your voice is strange; I know you not; in shadows dark I grope. What seek you here? THE NEW YEAR: Friend, let me in; my name is Hope. MORTAL: And mine is Failure; you but mock the life you seek to bless. Pass on. THE NEW YEAR: Nay, open wide the door; I am Success. MORTAL: But I am ill and spent with pain; too late has come your wealth. I cannot use it. THE NEW YEAR: Listen, friend; I am Good Health. MORTAL: Now, wide I fling my door. Come in, and your fair statements prove. THE NEW YEAR: But you must open, too, your heart, for I am Love.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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song of the day: Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing

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Ring Out, Wild Bells

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light; The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. Ring out the grief that saps the mind, For those that here we see no more, Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind. Ring out a slowly dying cause, And ancient forms of party strife; Ring in the nobler modes of life, With sweeter manners, purer laws. Ring out the want, the care, the sin, The faithless coldness of the times; Ring out, ring out thy mournful rhymes, But ring the fuller minstrel in. Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be. Alfred Tennyson