When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or… Read More “When You Are Old”
Last night a film titled ”Effie Gray” was broadcast on TV. Based on a real scandal that shocked Victorian England, the film tells the story of Euphemia “Effie” Gray, the woman who married the most influential art critic of the age, John Ruskin. Just after the marriage, John takes young Effie away from her parents… Read More Effie Gray
“I Carry Your Heart With Me,” a poem by e. e. cummings, was first published in June 1952 As a contemporary poet, cummings plays with the established styles of poetry for the benefit of meaning and aesthetics. He breaks all conventions, both those that belong to the poem written on the page and… Read More U3A: [i carry your heart with me]
[i carry your heart with me] i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart)i am never without it (anywhere i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling) i fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want no world… Read More [i carry your heart with me]
Son of Saul is a Hungarian drama film directed by László Nemes. It is set in the Auschwitz -Birkenau concentration camp in 1944 and follows a day-and-a-half in the life of Saul , a Jewish- Hungarian prisoner, member of the Sonderkommando, a group of prisoners with a macabre task: they have to burn the corpses… Read More Sonderkommando
First They Came for the Jews First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak… Read More First they came for the…
How many roads most a man walk down Before you call him a man ? How many seas must a white dove sail Before she sleeps in the sand ? Yes, how many times must the cannon balls fly Before they’re forever banned ? The answer my friend is blowin’ in the wind The answer… Read More U3A: Blowin’ in the Wind
Junior Bonner is a broke, bruised rodeo rider who returns to his home town Prescott, Arizona, for the Independence Day parade and rodeo and to reconcile with the family he hasn’t seen for years. He is shocked to see that his family is breaking apart and the family home is being demolished by his younger… Read More A film about a rodeo rider: Junior Bonner
“Ridin’ The Rodeo” Driving all night too many miles to go Pedal to the metal listenin’ to the radio I got three days to get from Cheyenne to San Antone That’s the life of a cowboy ridin’ the rodeo My back side’s sore and I’m movin’ kinda slow But when I hit Okie City there’s… Read More U3A: “Ridin’ The Rodeo”
Sono stata nominata da Fulvialuna, del blog tuttolandia1 (https://tuttolandia1.wordpress.com ) a un tag basato su domande personali, con lo scopo di conoscerci meglio l’uno con l’altro. L’ideatrice di questo Tag, Gioia di Throught the mirror, ne ha spiegato l’obiettivo: “Siamo tanti, ci seguiamo a vicenda, a volte qualcuno scrive dei pezzi che sembrano usciti dalla… Read More Conosciamoci meglio!
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