Edgar Allan Poe Quote –
“The pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating, and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.” – Edgar Allan Poe
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Poem – The Hole Within Us (By Melissa R. Mendelson)
A voice in the void cries out for somebody to come and save whatever is left of a sanity left hung in limbo as time swallows itself in, and moments drift by like dying thoughts of a mind left shaken from being here in this space to remain, to die in as the voice echoes within the corridors of limbo […]
Read moreOcean Can Help Ease Stress
Living by the ocean may help keep you calmer and relaxed. In a study it showed that the people who lived near the water were less stressed and with less psychological distress. In Roman times it was believed that water has healing and transformational properties. It is also found in Chinese medicine that water is crucial to balancing the body, […]
Read morePoem – Sending My Love Across The Distance (By Melissa Mendelson)
Sending My Love Across The Distance Our childhood was shared with laughter and tears. Two grown women talking over coffee warmed up my mind whenever I thought ahead, but where has that future gone now? We never saw that distance grow between us, and now there lies the bridge built between where I stand and where you are. Our […]
Read morePope Francis Quote – Justice and Solidarity
“It is especially for you, young people, to take on the great task of building a society where there will be more justice and solidarity.” – Pope Francis
Read morePoem – Somnambulant Webs (By Cynthia Sharp)
To the love I was abducted away from, a satellite to my being, the raven trickster who elevated everyone to laughter from deep within, soaking in the sun that surrounded you – Time lapses in your absence – a stencil of easier days like cut-out paper dolls without heart mirrors vainly what used to be, before I was […]
Read moreOliver Wendell Holmes Quote – Called An Old Man
“A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
Read moreRestaurants pay it forward on Thanksgiving
If you are broke and hungry on Thanksgiving Day, George Dimopoulos will feed you. No charge. If you are lonely, he will hug you. Also no charge. Then he will feed you. Dimopoulos owns George’s Senate Coney Island, along Haggerty Road next to a nine-hole golf course in Northville. He also owns three other George’s Senate restaurants and, come to […]
Read moreMickey Kaus Quote – We’ve Always Had Rich And Poor
“We’ve always had rich and poor. But money is increasingly something that enables the rich, and even the merely prosperous, to live a life apart from the poor. And the rich and semi-rich … increasingly seem to feel that they deserve such a life, that they are in some sense superior to those with less. An especially precious type of […]
Read moreCartoon – A Bite At The Game
