double vision: Cheetahs And Leopards

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#51. Modern Jazz Quartet, Django.

Nov 7th is Joni Mitchell's 73rd birthday. 'She describes herself as a "painter derailed by circumstance".' (Joni Mitchell and James Taylor in a 1970 BBC Concert. Joni 30 years later: Both Sides Now). 'Think of Joni Mitchell and think primarily of her incredible career as a singer.... Much less has been written of her life as a painter.'--http://jonimitchell.com/paintings/
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Charlie Haden and Cuban jazz musicians, Festival Jazz de Gazteiz Vitoria, 2005.
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Leonard Cohen (1934-2016), You Want It Darker.

KD Lang, Hallelujah (tx, sh)..

Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris, Beachcombing.
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Norah Jones and Charlie Hunter, Day Is Done.
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for the record, i hear some of these tunes first on jazz24.org or kplu (now knkx) 88.5.
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Sona Jobarteh and band, kora music from west Africa.

Rickie Lee Jones, Easy Money.
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Tuck And Patti, Castles Made Of Sand/Little Wing.
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Monday, 2016 November 7

my art: a square, sort of: blues fall.
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'Humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. Without doubt, these dreamers do not deserve wealth, because they do not desire it. Even so, a well-organized society should assure to such workers the efficient means of accomplishing their task, in a life freed from material care and freely consecrated to research.'--Marie Curie (1867-1934)
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watched superfoods: the real story, learning portrait (dan kunanec), and the agenda (teaching coding to kids, a canadian media trailblazer [denise donlon]).
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Tuesday, 2016 November 8

reading and watching the artist and others talk about morning star.
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Wednesday, 2016 November 9

Born a few days before Memorial Day (Remembrance Day in Canada), Carl Sagan (1934-1996) said: 'The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.'
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went to the doctor's, followed by coffee at grounded. watched the story of cats (into the americas) and treasures of the earth (metals).

Nature

The Story of Cats: Into The Americas

Nature

The Story of Cats: Into The Americas

Thursday, 2016 November 10

my art: circles of whimsy.
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in the morning, bruce told me about bee-keeping. in the evening, we watched the man who saved the louvre: 'at the dawn of world war II, a resistance group [led by jacques jaujard, the louvre's director] organizes an incredible exfiltration of masterpieces from the louvre.'
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Friday, 2016 November 11 'Lest We Forget'

we had no relations who died at vimy in the first world war (the 100th anniversary is today), but our uncle, thomas brehaut saunders, died at ypres 1916-06-13. two sisters, isabel brehaut saunders/taylor and grace willcocks saunders/morgan, and a brother, dyce chalmers saunders, also served but did not die in the war.
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