Hal4🌺

Enterprise Architect, increasing transparency in government. Former art conservator, translator, and metal-working craftsman. Fifer. All about transformation.

[Hal4🌺 @Hal4]

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[The Paris Review @parisreview]

“You should be conscious of your impact in real life.” —Primo Levi https://t.co/u3svnl6vAK

[Roman History @romanhistory1]

Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus was a Roman general and statesman who was one of the main architects of Rome's victory against Carthage in the Second Punic War.

[The Paris Review @parisreview]

“I can’t help what people think. I don’t care what people think. I only care what I do.” —Walter Mosley https://t.co/X2VotuzY4q

[Michael Pollan @michaelpollan]

My conversation with Krista Tippett: Michael Pollan on the mystery in our heads — The Beautiful Truth https://t.co/l7jrztJIO6

[Giorgio @perennialmystic]

“The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.”

~ Carl G. Jung

[Giorgio @perennialmystic]

“The artist is not an individual expressing his own originality, but a channel through which universal truth is made visible.”

~ Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

©️Diego Velázquez - Las Meninas

[Distracted Film @distractedfilm]

"All beautiful writing is automatic."

- Jean Cocteau

Self-portrait in the form of a letter

[Giorgio @perennialmystic]

"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish."

~ Hermann Hesse

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

In 1880, Argentina conquered Patagonia and massacred natives, indigenous leader Inakayal was captured. He was exhibited alive in a museum with corpses of other natives as an “inferior race” and chained in the basement at night. He ended his own life at age 55. His remains were displayed for decades

[Robert Fripp @frippofficial]

Toyah & Robert's Upbeat Moments from Venice and beyond...
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[Berliner Philharmoniker @BerlinPhil]

The Requiem has inspired some of the greatest musical works across the centuries.

In 2017, Marek Janowski conducted Verdi’s monumental Messa da Requiem.

Watch the full concert in the Digital Concert Hall: https://t.co/0S7xQjjN0f

[LiteraryVienna @LiteraryVienna]

„Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”

Ezra Pound
* October 30, 1885

[LiteraryVienna @LiteraryVienna]

„Träume sind wachsamer als Taten und Ereignisse, Träume bewahren die Welt vor dem Untergang, Träume, nichts als Träume.“

Ilse Aichinger
* 1. November 1921

[artforum @Artforum]

On the cover of Artforum’s November issue, two microphones sit on a green tablecloth in an empty room, surrounded by shelves of film canisters, notebooks, and Betamax cassettes. The image is Thomas Demand’s Repository (2018)—his photograph of a cardboard model of the Munich studio where Alexander Kluge, who died in March at ninety-four, did much of his television interviewing.
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[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

32 years ago today, Nirvana's "MTV Unplugged in New York" was released.

[Today In History @URDailyHistory]

1 Nov 1894: #Nicholas II becomes #Tsar of Russia after Alexander III, his father, dies. He would be the last Tsar to rule Russia. #RussianRevolution #RussianHistory #History #OTD #ad https://t.co/xA1D8Yo5LP

[Buddhism Now @Buddhism_Now]

A Buddhist practice: We have the means of letting the world go without ignoring it. 'Two Worlds make One' by Diana St Ruth https://t.co/9NWuNyM5dY.

[Archaeology Magazine @archaeologymag]

On the Day of the Dead, kids and adults dress as monarch butterflies. It may echo ancient tradition: Archaeologists in central Mexico are discovering butterflies in the sacred art of the Teotihuacan, Toltec, and Aztec people!

https://t.co/hEgl533gSD

[Grateful Dead @GratefulDead]

30 Days of Dead starts now⚡

Enjoy a selection of previously unreleased Dead Tracks all month long, hand-selected by David Lemieux, and free of charge! Guess each song’s name, venue, and date for a chance to win the daily prize of a 2027 Grateful Dead wall calendar or the grand prize, a copy of the numbered, limited-edition SUMMER MAGIC boxed set!

Visit https://t.co/jrYJsFi453 to get your track download and start playing!

Artwork by @marcosalvarado_