Building a bridge across the Atlantic, with steel beams and rivets. 🙏🏼🌍🕊 Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. — Kierkegaard
Budapest HU ║ Long Beach CA
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“Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
Turns out, our youngest daughter Manna will be joining her two siblings in Paris, for a semester abroad in college.
What a blessing, that all three of our kids will be living and studying in the "City of Light." Crazy, how the world turns.
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📷 Photo by Tadji Kretschmer©️
“There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.”
― Walt Streightiff
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📷 Photo by Noémia Prada©️, Portugal
The MAGA Madonna, Raphael, 1512.
Oil on canvas.
📷 @kalmantibs©️
"Nambucca Heads, New South Wales, Australia."
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📷 Photo by Dave Gosling©️ | @CloudAppSoc
Latest White House upgrade... 'twas only a matter of time.
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Eric Sloane, American, 1905-1985.
November Wind, 1964.
Oil on Masonite.
Private collection.
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📷Maryellen Brown | Masters of Modern and Contemporary Art
"Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada."
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Photo by Marlene Thomas©️ | @CloudAppSoc
Full performance here:
Franz Liszt, Liebestraum No. 3
Khatia Buniatishvili, piano
Verbier Festival, Lausanne, Switzerland
DW Classical Music©️
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"Give light and people will find the way."
— Ella Baker, 1903-1986.
Georgian classical pianist Khatia Buniatishvili performs Liebestraum No. 3 from Franz Liszt, composed in 1850.
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I shared a few anecdotes about my family heritage yesterday, during visit to my late father's house in Tata, Hungary. Thank you all for the warmhearted responses. I've since removed these tweets; a bit too personal to share in a public space. Appreciate your understanding. 🙏🏼🌞🕊️
With the abject *kneeling in fealty* to Trump by FIFA officials in the run-up to the World Cup, seems folks don't realize that FIFA has been roiled in corruption, scandal and duplicity for decades.
The confluence of MAGA corruption & FIFA corruption is truly one for the ages. 💰
The stately Tata Castle, built in 1397, has sat on the edge of the Old Lake in Tata, Hungary for over six hundred years. It survived multiple sieges by marauding forces; partially destroyed, then rebuilt, several times over the centuries.
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📷 Photo by Miklós Jakabházy©️
All the feels, and the dizzying rush of history, when you visit your parents’ hometown of Tata, Hungary, which was first noted in royal documents in 1093, with a castle on the lake, still standing, built in 1397.
We are just a speck of dust, in the big scheme of things.
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Always enjoyed the train ride to idyllic Tata, Hungary, my parents’ hometown. Since my father’s passing, the visits have dissipated.
I return today with a heavy heart, with the solemn task of preparing the house for sale, meeting with a realtor.
Yet another chapter in life. 🕊️
“Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you."
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 1933-2020
Yesterday's election results was a glimmer of hope of a nation reconnecting with its founding principles, reclaiming its democratic norms.
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Full performance here:
The Gluck Melodie, Dance of the Blessed Spirits, from Orfeo ed Euridice.
Alexandre Kantorow, piano
Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspielen©️
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“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, 1952.
French classical pianist Alexandre Kantorow performs Mélodie de Gluck, Orfeo ed Euridice, composed in 1762.
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"Thousands dead...
No more Hungarian bloodshed!!
Soviet troops must withdraw from Hungarian territory immediately!!"
— Poster on the building of post office number 62 in downtown Budapest, 1956.
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📷 Havas Péter©️ | Budapest régi képeken
