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June 2012

Spanish Passion 2

Poem: “Generations” by Philip Majorins

We are the wanderers We are the confused We are the pregnant; struggling to give birth We are the stimulated We are the despair We are the story less We are the profane We are the sacred We are the friendless We are the fatherless We are the overactive conscience; …

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All that Jazz: From Classic to Free

Few music genres are as intimidating to approach as jazz, especially contemporary forms that stray outside of “smooth jazz” easy listening. I have recently been re-awakened to the jazz tradition after purchasing my first bass and attempting to “re-understand” some basic musical building blocks through the fretboard. It has already …

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Caryll Houselander “The Heart of Reconciliation”

This passage from a work by Caryll Houselander is perhaps one of the most profound and straightforward meditations I have read in regards to a Christian approach to human relationships. Houselander was a lay Catholic writer and artist who was born in 1901 and died of breast cancer in 1954 …