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Will never forget listening to this in my dorm room on headphones, dancing like mad (I was really killing it btw) and having my roommate coming in. Her expression was absolutely priceless 🤦🏼‍♀️😄

96 Tears by Question Mark And The Mysterians

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GRACE SLICK | NYE, 1967 PHOTO by JIM MARSHALL [gelatin silver print | 24 x 20"]

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Charleston, a Sussex farmhouse, was a country retreat for artists and writers of the Bloomsbury Group and the home of Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell. The drawing room fireplace is heated by a Pither stove. The surround is painted with figures by Duncan Grant in the exuberant decorative style that eventually embellished every surface in the house.

The Fireplace, 1994

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Bhutan

A Kingdom of the Eastern Himalayas

Guy van Strydonck, Françoise Pommaret- Imaeda, Yoshiro Imaeda

Serindia Publ., London 1984, 175 pages, hardcover, ISBN 0906026 13X

euro 22,00

email if you want to buy booksinprogressmilano@yahoo.it

The little-known kingdom of Bhutan, around the size of Switzerland, is now one of the last strongholds of Tantric Buddhism in the East. Although isolated for centuries by its geography, bound as it is on the south by dense tropical jungles and to the north by the Himalayas, in the last 15 years with the advent of motor roads and the national will to develop, it has slowly opened its doors to a few privileged vistoirs and tourists. Amongst these, Guy van Strydonck has had the good fortune as royal guest to travel the length and breadth of the kingdom, recording the land and its people. For centuries, monks and refugees from Tibet have settled in Bhutan's hospitable and fertile valleys and ensured close cultural links between the countries. Because of different socio-economic conditions, Bhutan soon developed a highly distinctive culture of its own, and it is the purpose of this book to introduce the reader not only to its magnificent and varied landscapes, but also to the genius of Bhutan's rich traditions of art and architecture. Other chapters in the book focus on monastic and village life, their festivals and dances. A whole chapter is devoted to the hitherto unknown valley of Sakteng in the extreme east, homeland to the yak-herding "brokpas". The book concludes with a portrait of the Bhutanese themselves, a hardy mountain people renowned both for thie irrepresible good humour and for their profound spirit of Buddhist tolerance.

07/06/24

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“I know about me. I am the moons sister, a tidal child stranded on land. The sea always in my ear, a surf of eternal discontent in my blood.” ― Keri Hulme

Photo: Simona Maria Cannone

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Irving Penn Hippies, San Francisco 1967

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Irving Penn Big Brother and the Holding Company and the Grateful Dead, San Francisco 1967

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Sagadawa Blessing:

May the light of the Medicine Buddha's wisdom shine upon us, dispelling the darkness of suffering and ignorance.

May all physical and mental afflictions be pacified, and may we experience profound healing in body, mind, and spirit. May our journey towards enlightenment be swift and complete, and may we attain the ultimate state of perfect health and well-being. May all beings be free from suffering and enjoy boundless peace and happiness. May the blessings of the Medicine Buddha pervade the entire universe.

Om Bhekandze Bekhandze Maha Bhekandze Bhekandze Randza Sumungate Soha.

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If you are acting like a sheep, don't blame the shepherd. The empty path welcomes you.

Don't be afraid, don't resist, don't delay. Be what you are.

There is nothing to be afraid of. Trust and try. Experiment honestly. Give your real being a chance to shape your life.

You will not regret.

~ Nisargadatta

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I asked an elderly woman once what it was like to be old and to know that the majority of her life was now behind her.

She told me that she has been the same age her entire life. She said the voice inside of her head had never aged. She has always just been the same girl. Her mother's daughter. She had always wondered when she would grow up and be an old woman. She said she watched her body age and her faculties dull but the person she is inside never got tired. She never aged. She never changed.

Remember, our spirits are eternal. Our souls are forever. The next time you encounter an elderly person, look at them and know they are still a child, just as you are still a child and children will always need love, attention and purpose.

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Marianne Faithfull in 1964 at Decca Studios, London.

Photo by Gered Mankowitz.

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Wilfried Sätty 'Meditation' - 1969.

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Chuck Berry at the Fillmore, San Francisco 1970.⁣ Photo : Jim Marshall.

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Dr. Feelgood - She Does It Right

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Tom Waits I Hope That I Don't Fall in Love with You 1973

...I can see that you are lonesome just like me, and it being late, You'd like some some company, Well now I've had two, I look at you, and you look back at me, The guy you're with has up and split, the chair next to you's free, And I hope that you don't fall in love with me.

Well the night does funny things inside a man, these old tomcat feelings you don't understand

Well I turn around and look at you, you light a cigarette I wish I had the guts to bum one but we've never met

And I hope that I don't fall in love with you

Now it's closing time, the music's fading out Last call for drinks, I'll have another stout. I turn around to look at you, you're nowhere to be found, I search the place for your lost face, guess I'll have another round And I think that I just fell in love with you.

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Daniel Kramer Bob Dylan, New York City 1965

Daniel Kramer - 1932-2024 - Ave atque Vale

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Bob Dylan and Joan Baez in Crossed Lights, New Haven, Connecticut 1965

Daniel Kramer - 1932-2024 - Ave atque Vale