This week has been filled with such a variety of musical experiences and it has been such a pleasure to share them with both family and friends. This week and can thoroughly recommend it. Not only is she a lovely person.

The Fraught Future of the Ethnographic Museum. On the link between insanity and creativity and how the art of turn-of-the-century mentally ill asylum patients became the basis of contemporary art, from Duchamp to Twombly to Cattelan.

Art and the philosophy of life. What if, our only true and real purpose for existing is to stand up against evil.

Connect with The Hungry Mum. Baked mini jam doughnut muffins. The objects of my affections are mini jam doughnut muffins. These sweet treats have captured my heart and occupy every waking moment of the day. Donna Hay mini raspberry and coconut crumble loaf cakes.

Inspiration and Advice for Life. In Africa a frail women balances a clay pot on her head, carrying cloudy water to her four children so they can have a drink of water to fill their grumbling bellies. In Iraq a small boy is cowering behind his rusted shack, covering his ears in a weak attempt to block out the screaming and the roar of bombs that terrorizes his home village. Yet in Canada I get up and drink a big glass of water from my well.

The Poetic Journey of John White, writer. A New Direction NEW! Posted by John White. Any move away from our agenda. Will quickly earn you a label. That we can and will plaster there. For all the world to see. Go along with us on this. Ride toward the granola sunset. Ever be spoken but where.

There is a world you hide. Beneath that skin of yours. A world that nobody notices. Where the words are lighter. And heart beat is calmer. A world which is an abstract. Mix of sorrows and joys. Making it more real than you. The face for the appearance. The smile for the audience. Stage for the world to watch. In voids and spaces of time.