revisited this documentary after watching the film The Post for the second time
“I think the human race needs to think more about killing, about conflict. Is that what we want in this 21st Century?”
Robert McNamara was, among other positions, the Secretary of Defense under Presidents Kennedy & Johnson from 1960-67.
The Fog of War is a film of candid interviews with Robert McNamara and archival footage from various periods of 20th Century world history relating, but not exclusively, to war
again from Douglas Moore’s Art of Quotation
“If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.”
from Douglas Moore’s blog Art of Quotation
“The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.”
from the blog Willowdot21
Please watch and pass on . Sending my love out to all Mums with extra special children. Sorry it is late I didn’t know it was Downes Syndrome Day.
from Douglas Moore’s blog Art of Quotation: the perfect quote for the first day of spring
“What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms.”
Detail – 100 Views of Edo, #35, by Hiroshige (image from 100 Views of Edo )
See
. .it was like this when
. . . . . . . . . . .we waltz into this place
a couple of Papish cats
. . . . . . . . .is doing an Aztec two-step
And I says
. . . . . .Dad let’s cut
but then this dame
. . . . . . . .comes up behind me see
. . . . . . . . . . . .and says
. . . . . . . .You and me could really exist
Wow I says
. . . . . .Only the next day
. . . . . . .she has bad teeth
. . . . . . . . . .and really hates
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .poetry
from Douglas Moore’s Art of Quotation
– Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American, poet, painter, activist
from the blog Anything Is Possible
Ebony Rhodes was arrested and the car her family had been living in was impounded. But the officer asked questions and reported the situation to his deputy police chief setting in motion big changes for the family.
This good news story is full of compassion and wisdom.
Got good news? Please feel free to share!
from Douglas Moore’s Art of Quotation: Stephen Hawkins quote
“It would not be much of a universe if it wasn’t home to the people you love.”
-Stephen Hawking
from Douglas Moore’s blog Art of Quotation: Bobby Kennedy quote
“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.”
Robert Kennedy. Senator
Being Present for the Moment
Website storys
Illustration, Concept Art & Comics/Manga
Singer, Songwriter and Author from Kyoto, Japan.
Singer, Songwriter and Author from Kyoto, Japan.
An online activist from Bosnia and Herzegovina, based in Sarajevo, standing on the right side of the history - for free Palestine.
A place where I post unscripted, unedited, soulless rants of a insomniac madman
Finding Inspiration
Off the wall, under the freeway, over the rainbow, nothin' but net.
A virtual cabaret of songs, stories and questionable life choices.
Artist by choice, photographer by default, poet and author by accident.
At Least Trying Too
A Journey of Spiritual Significance
Life in islamic point of view
Through the view point of camera...
L'essenziale è invisibile e agli occhi e al cuore. Beccarlo è pura questione di culo
In Kate's World
Leonard Durso 