7 Inspiring Poems for My Son in Prison to Smile About

7 Inspiring Poems for My Son in Prison to Smile About 











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Jacqueline
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Letters to My Son
In Prison
George Bliss
YouTube - 8 hours ago


5:55
Jacqueline and
Jesse Jackson Jr.
talk "Letters to My
Son in Prison"
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12:00
Transcript of "Why
your worst deeds
don't define you"

Alicia Keys and Kathleen Battle - Ave María and Not Even The King

Alicia Keys and Kathleen Battle - 

performing Ave María and Not Even The King at BlackBall 2013

Link: https://youtu.be/luC84MvRBeU

Thomas Edison, 1931

  

Thomas Edison, 1931 

  

Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade op.35 - Leif Segerstam - Sinfónica de Galicia

NIKOLAI RIMSKI-KÓRSAKOV (1844-1908)
Scheherazade, op. 35

 Introducción. El mar. El barco de Simbad (00:05)

La historia del príncipe Kalender (12:03) 

El joven príncipe y la princesa (25:10) 

Fiesta en Bagdad. El mar. El barco de Simbad naufraga al chocar contra una roca en cuya cima se halla un herrero de bronce (37:18) 

 Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia
Leif Segerstam, director
Slava Chestiglazov, concertino

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Grabación realizada en el Palacio de la Ópera de A Coruña, el 15 de mayo de 2015 

Realización de Antonio Cid/RDC 

Producciones
Ingeniero de sonido: 

Pablo Barreiro (CRTVG)

Link: https://youtu.be/zY4w4_W30aQ

Chief Seattle/Quotes

 

All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.

 

Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

 

Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.  

Chief Seattle/Quotes

 

 

Statement on surrendering tribal lands to Isaac Stevens, governor of Washington Territory (1855)

(NB: see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Seattle for historical details of this statement, which states "Chief Seattle gave a speech in January 1854 that was reported by Dr. Henry A. Smith in the Seattle Sunday Star in 1887. It is most usually called Seattle's Reply since it was a response to a speech by Territorial Governor Isaac I. Stevens. While there is no question that Chief Seattle gave a speech on this occasion, the accuracy of Smith's account is doubtful.").

• My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain...There was a time when our people covered the land as the waves of a wind-ruffled sea cover its shell-paved floor, but that time long since passed away with the greatness of tribes that are now but a mournful memory.

• At night when the streets of your cities and villages are silent and you think them deserted, they will throng with the returning hosts that once filled them and still love this beautiful land. The white man will never be alone.

Link: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chief_Seattle

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Requiem for a Nun ~ A Capsule Book Review  

  

Requiem for a Nun ~ A Capsule Book Review By Allen Kopp

William Faulkner, the master of twentieth century Southern American gothic writing, wrote Requiem for a Nun as a sort of sequel to his novel Sanctuary, meaning that it’s a brief glimpse into the life of fallen woman Temple Drake eight years after the close of Sanctuary. Requiem for a Nun was written around 1951, when Faulkner was 54 years old, about twenty years after Sanctuary.

Requiem for a Nun is an odd little book, not a traditional novel. The story is told in dramatic form, meaning that reading it is like reading a play. That’s not all, though. The “acts” of the novel are interspersed with some of Faulkner’s dense prose; dense in the sense that sentences are frequently half-a-page long or longer, and you won’t know what he’s saying unless you’re reading carefully and go back and break down the sentences into their various parts. Faulkner is the master of interjectional writing. Great writer though he was, it’s as if his mind was so twisted with interweaving thoughts that he couldn’t finish one thought before he started in on another. I suppose this is part of his “innovation,” although not easy on the reader.

The “narrative” portions of the book that are interspersed with the “dramatic” portions are about the fictional history of the fictional town of Jefferson, Mississippi, in fictional Yoknapatawpha County; specifically the jail, the courthouse, and how the town was begun. These fictional historical details actually have nothing to do with the “story” told in dramatic form.

Readers familiar with the character Temple Drake from Faulkner’s earlier novel Sanctuary know that she ended badly. She was witness to a murder and lied on the witness stand to defend the real murderer, a deformed thug named Popeye, who took her to Memphis and set her up in a whorehouse to keep her from going to the police and telling them what she knew. Requiem for a Nun picks up her story eight years later. She is free of Popeye (he was hanged for another crime that he apparently was innocent of) and is married to her drunken male companion, Gowan Stevens, from Sanctuary. They have two children, an infant daughter and a slightly older son.

Temple has taken a black woman named Nancy Mannigoe, former drug addict and prostitute, into her house as a sort of governess for her two small children. Temple believes she is saving Nancy from her terrible life and giving her a chance to have a better one. When the action of Requiem for a Nun begins, Nancy has murdered Temple and Gowan’s baby daughter in her crib and is going to be executed in a few days for her crime. Temple decides within two days of Nancy’s execution that she herself is responsible for the murder of her own baby, beginning with her actions eight years earlier, and attempts to save Nancy’s life. There is one very long scene where she and her husband’s lawyer uncle go and see the governor of the state in the state capital in the middle of the night to plead for Nancy’s life, even though Temple knows there is no use.

Since there is no nun in Requiem for a Nun, I’m not sure what the title means, although I’m figuring it refers to Nancy Mannigoe. She goes to her death serenely because she believes she deserves to die and because she is a “believer.” Nancy’s serenity is something that Temple Drake cannot touch, understand or share. She is a tormented woman and we get the distinct impression that she will never be anything but that.


 


Copyright © 2013 by Allen Kopp





Link: https://literaryfictions.com/reviews/requiem-for-a-nun-a-capsule-book-review/

Changing Worlds

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Changing Worlds is a great concept and not unlike the idea of reincarnation.  Better if you don't like the idea of returning to this revolving slaughter house.

Not to laugh, not to lament, not to curse, but to understand.  - Spinoza

I drink not from mere joy in wine nor to scoff at faith -- no, only to forget myself for a moment, that only do I want of of intoxication, that alone.  - Omar Khayyam

Changing Worlds is a great concept and not unlike the idea of reincarnation.  Better if you don't like the idea of returning to this revolving slaughter house.

Not to laugh, not to lament, not to curse, but to understand.  - Spinoza

I drink not from mere joy in wine nor to scoff at faith -- no, only to forget myself for a moment, that only do I want of of intoxication, that alone.  - Omar Khayyam