Category: The Arts
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BILL GROSART: PHOTOS
The following photos are part of a collection of plants and insects photographed by Bill Grosart. To enlarge, click on the photos.
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Karma Changchub: Photos from
The following photos were taken by Karma Changchub in East Ayrshire. Enlightenment, inherent though it is in the mind, seems so difficult to unveil. But if you develop fervent devotion and fuse the guru’s enlightened nature with your ordinary mind, enlightenment can be realized. Truly, to meditate on the benevolent teacher is a spiritual practice…
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Wasp on the Prayer Flag
Maeve O’Sullivan is a Dublin-based member of Bodhicharya Ireland. In Wasp on the Prayer Flag, O’Sullivan’s fifth collection with Alba Publishing, the years 2018-2021 are chroniced in the forms of haiku and senryu verse. The three sections, Seasons, Sequences and Senryu, bring to the reader Maeve’s lucid observations of life in Ireland and abroad. This latest edition…
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No Lockdown on the River Garry
This short film by Sitar Rose is a contemplative study of the Scottish countryside during lockdown. There is a series of still shots along the River Garry down to Loch Oich. The river runs from the west of Pilochry to the north of Fort William.
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Photography
Yesge
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The Light on the Shore
Old as I am Older than the threads of understanding Which we weave between us Old as you are Older by far than the contours of the love Old as I am Older than the threads of understanding Which we weave between us Old as you are Older by far than the contours of the…
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The world is a beautiful place to be born into
The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don’t mind happiness not always being so very much fun if you don’t mind a touch of hell now and then just when everything is fine because even in heaven they don’t sing all the time The world is a beautiful place to…
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The White Man’s Burden
The white man’s burden Rang loud and clear Trumpeted by church and state alike. Exercise dominion over the colored savages. Cleanse them of their heathen ways.
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Chinese poems
Po Chü-i was born at T’ai-yüan in Shansi. Most of his childhood was spent at Jung-yang in Honan. His father was a second-class Assistant Department Magistrate. He tells us that his family was poor and often in difficulties. (772-846)
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u3a Photographs
The following photos were taken by members of Photography 4 of University of the Third Age, Edinburgh. Every month the members decide on a subject and submit a few photographs on Dropbox followed by a viewing on zoom. At other times, one member gives a presentation about some aspect of photography. Our group leader, Geoff Gardner,…
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March 1st 2020 St David’s Day
Prelude to poem ‘March 1st, 2020, St David’s Day’ This poem was written last year, just before the World Pandemic 2020 exploded in the UK, during a time, when all we had to worry about was ‘differences of opinion’! That still remains, of course, and for me, my ongoing ‘fight’ is over ‘styles of gardening’…
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Stephanie Jones
Stephanie Jones is an active soloist and chamber musician who is currently based in Germany and studying Konzertexamen at the University of Music Franz Liszt with Prof. Thomas Müller-Pering.
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Why I Love Glasgow/London
My name is Hilary Harris – since retiring from my catering business after 25 years, I have been fortunate to undertake some spectacular world travels. I have photographed some great images to capture these memorable journeys
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THE GOAL OF BUDDHISM
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BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS
Photographs submitted for the University of the Third Age Photographic Group Edinburgh. Subject: Black and White