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Saturday 29 March 2008
Thursday 27 March 2008
Do we want to live forever?
With Parliament debating measures that could help 'cure' diseases, I ask myself this question.
I'm puzzled by it.
I think it depends on my quality of life and how much my survival demands others to make efforts on my behalf.
We all take it for granted that we want to fight disease, but is this another of those illusions like thinking we need lots of money!
At the moment, part of me is inclined to take the consequences of taking no action if I get a major disease, but in practice, I immediately think that I must take care of myself if something is affecting my health.
From a great site with photographs by Mark Story. Some very interesting comments which gave me a perspective!
I'm puzzled by it.
I think it depends on my quality of life and how much my survival demands others to make efforts on my behalf.
We all take it for granted that we want to fight disease, but is this another of those illusions like thinking we need lots of money!
At the moment, part of me is inclined to take the consequences of taking no action if I get a major disease, but in practice, I immediately think that I must take care of myself if something is affecting my health.
From a great site with photographs by Mark Story. Some very interesting comments which gave me a perspective!
Monday 24 March 2008
What is good art?
Here are notes on our discussion which continued over two sessions. Each member brought "A work of art" which they considered to be 'Good Art' (We're a very well heeled
group!).
Click on the underlined items for more information!
"Nighthawks" a painting by Edward Hopper.
"Edward Hopper, the best-known American realist of the inter-war period, once said: 'The man's the work. Something doesn't come out of nothing.' This offers a clue to interpreting the work of an artist who was not only intensely private, but who madesolitude and introspection important themes in his painting."
"The Kiss" by Rodin
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Hunt Emerson and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"A Hymne to God the Father" by John Donne
"Christ of St John of the Cross" by Salvador Dali
Geoff brought one of his pots!
The poem "The Sensitive Plant" by Percy Shelley
"The Water Lilies" by Claude Monet
"the Venus de Milo" from the Louvre, Paris
Several of Degas' Dancers
More pictures of Degas here, and about Edgar Degas here!
A plate . . .
Denis referred to four old Dockers from previous times who attended the Tall Ships race at Liverpool Albert Docks. The closest I can get to this is a video on this event but not the Dockers.
group!).
Click on the underlined items for more information!
"Nighthawks" a painting by Edward Hopper.
"Edward Hopper, the best-known American realist of the inter-war period, once said: 'The man's the work. Something doesn't come out of nothing.' This offers a clue to interpreting the work of an artist who was not only intensely private, but who madesolitude and introspection important themes in his painting."
"The Kiss" by Rodin
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Hunt Emerson and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"A Hymne to God the Father" by John Donne
"Christ of St John of the Cross" by Salvador Dali
Geoff brought one of his pots!
The poem "The Sensitive Plant" by Percy Shelley
"The Water Lilies" by Claude Monet
"the Venus de Milo" from the Louvre, Paris
Several of Degas' Dancers
More pictures of Degas here, and about Edgar Degas here!A plate . . .
Denis referred to four old Dockers from previous times who attended the Tall Ships race at Liverpool Albert Docks. The closest I can get to this is a video on this event but not the Dockers.
Friday 21 March 2008
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