Spiderwebs_and_Moonlight

Spider Webs and Moonlight

Of spider webs and moonlight are these short hours made,
Of golden sunlight on a cloud, of amethyst and jade;
Of sparkling water in a rill, of silver birch on top of hill.
With all these lovely things I fill my cup of memory.
-- Doris R. Beck

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
-- Marcel Proust

Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected in the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in man's sphere.
-- Young

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
-- Albert Einstein

"For a few minutes, they stood silently staring at the grass and dirt that was Oscar Eisenberg's final resting place. 'I don't know what y'all was hopin' to find,' the caretaker finally said, 'but there ain't nothin' much here. A patch of dead grass won't make a very good story.' Hope smiled, knowing he was
dead wrong. Like so many world-weary souls, Lloyd Herman couldn't discern the profound from the mundane.....he had become blind to the sublime glory of life."
-- From Saving Mr. Bingle: A New Orleans Fairy Tale, a heartwarming story based on true events,
by Sean Patrick Doles, published 2004

LINKS:

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Blues Midis

Blues Midi Files

Jack's Midis-Blues

Cool Jazz

Just Jazz

Jazz Notes

Jazz Midis

Saving Mr. Bingle Website - a very neat book, with thanks to Linda for sharing it with me!
(A portion of the proceeds from the sale of the book will be donated to the Oscar Isentrout Memorial Fund to purchase a tombstone for the unmarked grave of the man who gave New Orleans one of its most enduring Christmas traditions.)

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