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Friday, February 1, 2019

the celebs shone brightly against the darkish night time sky. A light wind inside the air that whistled thru the mountains and valleys. The landscape appeared black and empty. there was an eery experience to this area. a feeling of vulnerability to mankind. The substantial mountains stood ambitious and proud, silhouetted across the night sky. everything...
mountaineering is considered one in every of the intense game activities. It isn't always clean to climb the ones hard edges and there may be constantly a danger lurking round you. Many people have misplaced their lives to this hobby. So, why do human beings still preserve doing this hobby? it's for thrill, excitement and for the texture of risk....

Monday, January 21, 2019

"Isn't This a Lovely Day," by Irving Berlin was written for the movie Top Hat (1935), starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. The song has been recorded by many of the jazz greats, including the incomparable Ella Fitzgeral...

Sunday, January 20, 2019

Tomorrow, the nation celebrates the life of Dr. Martin Luther King. Here in Birmingham, Alabama, we will have our annual Unity Breakfast downtown. there will also be a number of hands on service projects throughout the city on that day.We have all heard snippets of King's famous "I Have a Dream" speech, but it is important to stop and listen to the...

Thursday, January 17, 2019

Photo from Orion MagazineThere are some people who, when they die, all you can think of is the light that they imparted.It was sad to hear of the death of Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Mary Oliver. She said in an interview on National Public Radio that "The two things I loved from a very early age were the natural world and dead poets, [who] were...

Wednesday, January 16, 2019

I just finished reading a beautifully written novel by Attica Locke, Bluebird, Bluebird.  I heard about it when I listened to an interview with the author on NPR while driving to work over a year ago. I was intrigued by the interview and the discussion of the book. As soon as I parked the car, I took a notepad that I keep near the dashboard and...