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Giving Life to Art: A Profound Event
We didn’t know it at the time, but the summer of 1996 proved to be a turning-point of enormous proportions for the world – and especially our little corner of it – because that was the season when we first … Continue reading
Posted in AIDS, Angels, health, Holy Spirit, Love, miracles
Tagged Art, Art Show, Cedar House, Fire Island, Fire Island Pines, Gallery, Gallery Positive, VisualAIDS
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A Word, if You Will, about My “Gone too Soon” Profiles
[Dumbledore says, in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, “Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic.” Which is why, perhaps, I have found this such a difficult piece to write. No magician … Continue reading
Posted in AIDS, Angels, belief, Death, faith, health, Love, poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged ACT UP, AIDS, Ancestry.com, Civilian Warfare, David Haney, Dean Savard, family trees, Fire Island, Fire Island Pines, gone too soon, Mark Simpson, Michael Bishop, Profiles in Grace, Ruffin Cooper, Tim Dlugos
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TBT/GTS#3: Peter Frazer, MD – A Life Redeemed
December 1, 2016 – I didn’t really plan to post this on World AIDS Day. It just turned out that way, but I can’t think of a more appropriate time for this story or a more appropriate tale for this … Continue reading
An Open Letter to the President-Elect
“I have often … in the course of the session … looked at that sun behind the President without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting. But now at length I have the happiness to know it … Continue reading
Posted in Angels, belief, health, Love, miracles, prayer, Rebirth, Uncategorized
Tagged Benjamin Franklin, Constitutional Amendment, Health care, Robert F. Kennedy, Trump, U.S. Constitution
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TBT/GTS#2: George “Bud” Falkenberry, Born to Act
Of all these profiles I expect to write – and as you will come to see, there are far too many – this one is the one I want most to get right because, even after more than 30 years … Continue reading
Posted in Angels, Death, health, Love, Uncategorized
Tagged acting, actors, AIDS, AIDS quilt, Alabama, Birmingham-Southern College, Falkenberry, gone too soon, HIV, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, Selma, Upper West Side
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TBT:GTS#1: Randall Robbins, Actor, Teacher, Leader, Friend
INTRODUCTION My over-arching challenge here is to write this post – the first in an occasional series – in such a way that it will keep you smiling even if it may, at first, give you pause. But, I know … Continue reading
Posted in Angels, belief, Death, faith, God the Father, health, Holy Spirit, Love, poetry, prayer, Uncategorized
Tagged "Annie", "Company", acting, actors, AIDS, Carolyn Kirsch, Death, Equity, Equity Library Theatre, HIV, Randall Robbins, Sanford FL, Seminole High School, Theatre, Uta Hagen
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OUR COMMON HOME: What the Pope Said
I’m astonished by the Pope on so many levels. There is his proactive humility, his profound simplicity, his confident spirituality, and all served up to our little lost world in his mind-bogglingly perfect pitch. As both a lifelong friend of … Continue reading
Posted in Angels, belief, biology, Death, faith, God the Father, health, Holy Spirit, Living Water, Love, miracles, physics, poetry, Pope Francis, prayer, quantum theory, Rebirth, religion, Uncategorized
Tagged Air, Carbon, Common Home, Earth Sciences, Encyclical, Environment, Filth, Global Warming, Laudato Sii, love, Pollution, Social Sciences, the Poor, Water
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III: Uncut Diamonds
“We have nothing, if not belief.” – Sir Reepicheep, Chief Mouse of Narnia, Voyage of the Dawn Treader (C.S. Lewis) “Do the arithmetic or be doomed to talk nonsense.” – John McCarthy, A.I. trailblazer [1] We are the uncut diamonds … Continue reading
Posted in Angels, belief, biology, cells, Death, diamonds, faith, God the Father, health, Higgs Boson, Higgs Field, Holy Spirit, Living Water, Love, miracles, particle physics, physics, prayer, quantum theory, quitting, quitting smoking, religion, smoking, tobacco, Uncategorized
Tagged biology, diamonds, prokaryotes, uncut diamonds
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