December 2011
26 posts
La Figlia che Piange by T. S. Eliot
O quam te memorem virgo …
Stand on the highest pavement of the stair—
Lean on a garden urn—
Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair—
Clasp your flowers to you with a pained surprise—
Fling them to the ground and turn
With a fugitive resentment in your eyes:
But weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.
So I would have had him leave,
So I would have had her stand and grieve,
So he would have...
Bya Ke Borem Ba Mazar - Rabab, Tabla, Violin
On April 6, 2010, world-renowned rubab player Homayun Sakhi made a spontaneous visit to the Afghanistan National Institute of Music. In this video, ANIM violin teacher William Harvey joins Ustad Sakhi in the folk song “Let’s Go To Mazar.”
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Naim Popal’s vocal fragment
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Beya ke borem ba mazar, mullah...
What Role Will Intermezzo® Play in Treating...
Author: Michael J. Thorpy, MD
Posted: 12/20/2011 on medscape.com
Insomnia: A Short Review
Insomnia occurs in most people at some time in their life, even if only briefly. But 20%-50% of people have insomnia on a regular basis. Current treatments have focused on behavioral therapies aimed at reducing lifestyle factors that exacerbate or precipitate insomnia and pharmacologic treatments to...
40 Belief-Shaking Remarks From a Ruthless... →
How to Look at Anger: Aristotle's Example
“There are present day psychologists (as well as philosophers enamored of such approaches) who in their theorizing and experimenting substitute a much-better-worked-out science armed with brain scans and various mind-affecting drugs, for the early moderns’ imaginary mechanism, but the positions they assume remain reductionist — a term one might define like this:
a reductionist...
Nature hates peeping, and our mothers speak her very sense when they say,...
– From Emerson’s Experience
Budding Roses by Virgil
On a springtime morning under a saffron-colored sky, night’s biting chill was just giving way to a hint of the warmth that was yet to come. I was walking a country path between well-tended plots and enjoying the crisp tonic of fresh air. On the blades of grass I could see the white hoar-frost still clinging. On cabbage leaves it had melted to crystal...
Haiku - Selected Poems of Matsuo Bashō →
Document: The Symbolism Survey →
The Edicts of King Ashoka →
Last Notes →
The wild, sublime music that composers write on their deathbeds.
Nikhil Banerjee - Raag Darbari
Behtar Pakistan: Shayan Afzal Khan (Kuch Khaas)