Tony's Garden

Thought of the Day… “We are not living in a private world of our own. Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.” ― John Galsworthy 1735 Johannes Herbst, German composer. Sie flochten ihm eine Dornenkrone 1777 Philipp Otto Runge, German artist, a draftsman, painter, and color theorist. 1866…

Thought of the Day… “The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” ― Milan Kundera 1597 Virgilio Mazzocchi, Italian composer. Surge Amica mea. 1651 Ferdinand Tobias Richter, Austrian composer. Toccata und Versette im 1° Ton. 1849 Emma Lazarus, American author of poetry, prose, and translations. 1882 Edward Hopper, American realist painter…

Thought of the Day… “Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.” ― Ayaan Hirsi Ali 1865 Robert Kahn, German composer. “Nun stehen die Rosen” MISCELLANY: I’M SO OLD I CAN REMEMBER WHEN THEY TOLD US, ‘MOVE ALONG, NOTHING TO SEE HERE’. US halts funding access to Wuhan lab at heart of COVID-19 origins debate FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great…

Thought of the Day… “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” ― Aristotle 1304 Petrarch, scholar and poet of early Renaissance Italy. 1600 Simon Ives, English composer and organist. Almaine, and Now We Are Met 1659 Hyacinthe Rigaud, French painter. 1822 Gregor Mendel, German-Czech…

“Where words leave off, music begins.” ― Heinrich Heine 1670 Richard Leveridge, English bass singer and composer. Black and gloomy as the grave. 1782 Jonathan Blewitt, English organist and composer. I love thee still 1789 John Martin, English painter and engraver. 1834 Edgar Degas, French Impressionist artist. 1893 Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian poet, playwright, artist, and…

“A primary reason that people believe that life is getting worse is because our information about the problems of the world has steadily improved. If there is a battle today somewhere on the planet, we experience it almost as if we were there. During World War II, tens of thousands of people might perish in…

“The Pianoforte Sonatas of Beethoven must always be among the choicest possessions of all who love music and especially of those who make music their main object and study.” ― Donald Tovey 1702 Johann Schneider, German composer and pupil of Bach. Präludium und Fuge, G Dur, and Präludium und Fuge, g moll 1797 Hippolyte Delaroche, French…

“Adventure is just bad planning.” ― Roald Amundsen 1704 John Kay, English inventor (developed the flying shuttle). 1723 Joshua Reynolds, English portrait painter. 1796 Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, French painter. 1858 Eugène Ysaÿe, Belgian virtuoso violinist, composer, and conductor. Rêve d’enfant 1872 Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer of polar regions. MISCELLANY: FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration…

“If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Birthdays: 1606  Rembrandt van Rijn, a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker and draughtsman. 1638 Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani, Italian composer. Sonata Prima 1877 Nina Salaman, British Jewish poet, author, translator and suffragette. 1894 Tadeusz…

“The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even…