Wisdom, Kentucky

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
~ Buddha

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Tootsies World Famous Orchid Lounge - Nashville Tennessee Jan 1

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.  ~Benjamin Franklin

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It was great fun creating this shot with Former American football running back Eddie George who is playing Julius Caesar for the Nashville Shakespeare Festival. Brian Webb Russell l. as Brutus and Eric D. Pasto-Crosby r. as Mark Antony make up a great cast of tragic consequence. Shot on a dark rainy day at Belmonts Troutt theater.

Winter 2012 Nashville Shakespeare Festival Janurary 12 – 29th 2011

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It felt as if one’s entire world was one, long Sunday afternoon.

Nothing to do.

Nowhere to go.

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She is thought of as one of the greatest English mystics. Little is known of her life aside from her writings. In fact, it is not even known exactly when she died. She was last known to be alive in 1416 when she was 73 years old. Even her name is uncertain, the name “Julian” coming from the Church of St Julian in Norwich, where she was an anchoress (a type of hermit living in a cell attached to the church, engaged in contemplative prayer). At the age of 30, suffering from a severe illness and believing she was on her deathbed, Julian had a series of intense visions of Jesus Christ. (They ended by the time she overcame her illness on May 13, 1373. She recorded these visions soon after having them, and then again twenty years later. The first version, called The Short Text, is more of a narration of her visions. The Long Text was written twenty years after the visions, and contains more theological commentary on the meaning of the visions. These visions are the source of her major work, called Sixteen Revelations of Divine Love (circa 1393). This is believed to be the first book written by a woman in the English language. Julian became well known throughout England as a spiritual authority: Margery Kempe mentions going to Norwich to speak with Julian.
Female Mystics

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Día de los Muertos, East Nashville

“Time spent with cats is never wasted.”- Sigmund Freud

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One of the nice things about Fall besides the colors. © 2011 Jeff Frazier

“The Equinox Field” – Windsor, Western Massachusetts Sept 2011
The holiday of Autumn Equinox, Harvest Home, Mabon, the Feast of the Ingathering, Meán Fómhair or Alban Elfed (in Neo-Druidic traditions), is a pagan ritual of thanksgiving for the fruits of the earth and a recognition of the need to share them to secure the blessings of the Goddess and the God during the winter months. The name Mabon was coined by Aidan Kelly around 1970 as a reference to Mabon ap Modron, a character from Welsh mythology.[14] In the northern hemisphere this equinox occurs anywhere from September 21 to 24. In the southern hemisphere, the autumn equinox occurs anywhere from March 20–23. Among the sabbats, it is the second of the three pagan harvest festivals, preceded by Lammas/Lughnasadh and followed by Samhain.
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Emily Landham and Matthew Raich play Romeo and Juliet at The Nashville Shakespeare Festival’s 24th Annual Shakespeare in Centennial Park. Set in the time period of The Chicago World’s Fair in 1893.

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