and yet

 

“Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly”

 

~ Paulo Coelho ~

 

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primordial vagabond notes

 

“It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.”

 

~ Miles Davis ~

 

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solitude descending

 

“Man loves company even if it is only

that of a small burning candle.”

 

~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg ~

 

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que sais-je?

 

“Je pense, donc je suis.”

 

~ René Descartes ~

 

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music

 

“The only truth is music.”

 

~ Jack Kerouac ~

 

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TRANE

 

“I want to speak to their souls.”

 

~ John Coltrane ~

 

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SING

 

“Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody,

it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.”

 

~ Janis Joplin ~

 

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COBWEBS

 

“Sweeping cobwebs from the edges of my mind…”

 

~ Graham Nash ~

 

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CRINKLE CRANKLE

 

“Two roads diverged in a wood and I –

I took the one less traveled by,

and that has made all the difference.”

 

~ Robert Frost ~

 

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SING ELECTRIC

 

“O I say these are not the parts and poems

of the body only, but of the soul…”

 

~ Walt Whitman ~

 

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GHOST IN ME

 

“For dreams, too, are ghosts, desires chased in sleep, gone by morning.”

 

~ Libba Bray ~

 

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JE VIS À DANSER

 

“Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.”

 

~ Samuel Beckett ~

 

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QUE SAIS-JE?

 

“Je pense, donc je suis.”

 

~ René Descartes ~

 

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COQUETTE

 

“Marriage is the tomb of friendship.”

 

~ Hannah Webster Foster ~

 

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LE TAUREAU

 

“We have invented nothing new.”

 

~ Pablo Picasso ~

(after seeing the cave paintings of Lascaux)

 

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LE RUBAN NOIR

 

“It’s not who you love…it’s the fact that you love.

That is all that truly matters.”

 

~ Al Pacino ~

 

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THE FACE OF DEATH

 

“Why should I fear death?

If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not.

Why should I fear that which cannot exist when I do?”

 

~ Epicurus ~

 

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TRANE

 

“I want to speak to their souls.”

 

~ John Coltrane ~

 

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PRIMORDIAL VAGABOND NOTES

 

“It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.”

 

~ Miles Davis ~

 

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SINGING BOWL

 

“The knower of the mystery of sound

knows the mystery of the whole universe.”

 

~ Hazrat Inayat Khan ~

 

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