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MickeyMouse202 57, Female, Rhode Island, USA - 112 entries

Feb 2012
1:53 PM CDT

� � �So hopefully these attacks of {nothing} will cease, and there will be forthwith. �Of what I'm looking for anyway. �Food/drink aplenty, etc. �21 is definitely one of those numbers. �:) �Wish I could check mail and so forth, but there must be something wrong with the system. �Hopefully that'll be fixed soon too. �

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RonPrice 80, Male, Canada - 60 entries

Feb 2012
4:41 AM AEST

UNDER THE CYPRESS TREES: THE BRILLIANT FIRST CEN

Bryn and Sherna Deamer, the chief librarian and the head of the publishing section in the Bah�'� World Centre library gave my wife, my son and I a private tour of the Baha’i Cemetery in the late afternoon of Friday 9 June.� It is a cemetery where Universal House of Justice members, Hands of the Cause and several workers at the World Centre lie buried.� I found the experience very moving because I had come to know so very many of the people who had passed away and who were buried in that place--not personally of course but through living in the first century of the Bah�'� Faith’s Formative Age(1921-2021) and studying its history.� I felt a closeness to many of these men and women.� It was the only place where I was moved to tears during my pilgrimage. -Ron Price, Pioneering Over Three Epochs, 9 June 2000.
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So many familiar names here
under yet more cypress trees:
the Revell sisters’ final resting place;
and there’s Elizabeth Martin’s stone:
I knew her well, well not that well;
And there’s old Esslemont, well, not
that old really: died at only 51!
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Quite a galaxy of servants to this Cause:
an elite cadre!� And a nicely kept place:
simple, small, accessible, not your orgy
of stone going on and on forever through
anonymous lines of very unknown people.
An intimate spot with several twisted trees,
souls beyond, now, beyond the twisted reach
of any of our sorrows as Bob Dylan once sang.
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Men and women of the Formative Age and the
first five epochs of its brilliant first century.
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Ron Price
10 June 2000

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thoskel1 66, Male, Ireland - 80 entries

Feb 2012
5:09 PM BST

Getting here and there

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Got through the first day back at work in tree weeks.We did little manual work today.It was raining g.Mike Flaherty was there with Mickey first thing.I felt a bit guilty not going to the brother's wife 's funeral so I dodged him for a while and said nothing.

Austin was there after a while as was Vincent.No changes there.
I eventually got around sympathising and explaining that I did not know about his bereavement or I would have gone to the funeral

I threw out a bale after work(posting off that fine in Donohues.What a misfortune).The weanling is gobbling down the ration thank God.I might increase the amount tomorrow.

I went to the course about 7.15 and was there in time.It is getting interesting .Declan is an ok sort of tutor.I hope that I can get something rewarding out of it

Just after watching University challenge on the Bbc i player.It was the most exciingly close in the end>I even answered some that they got wrong.

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RonPrice 80, Male, Canada - 60 entries

Feb 2012
4:03 AM AEST

de Kooning: A Retrospective

Five of the most famous, or infamous, paintings of Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)---the Woman series from 1950-1953 ---were at a large-scale retrospective exhibition which concluded last month. From 18 September 2011 to 9 January 2012 de Kooning: A Retrospective could be viewed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. That Dutch-American abstract-expressionist painted what people found, and still find, shocking, truly wild canvasses.

Woman I which had pride of place at the centre of one wall in the MoMA was flanked by two equally riotous canvases on either side. It had taken de Kooning over two years to complete Woman I. He kept putting it aside. It was only the urgings of American art historian Meyer Schapiro that kept him from destroying it. By the early 1950s de Kooning, some argue, was onto something so new even to himself that he had to make a number of similar paintings before he knew enough to know when Woman I qualified as a finished painting. This meant as much scratching into, rubbing out, scraping back, and starting over as it did applying oil paint in every conceivable manner and viscosity.

Woman with Bicycle (1952-1953), another painting at the retrospective is a monster of a painting with a formless piece of pure red pigment at the centre of the canvas. That mark gives the impression, say some critics, as if de Kooning had just about given-up on this new art form. Perhaps in the green square-shaped smudges and scrapes at the bottom of the painting de Kooning found himself, momentarily redeemed by the dialectic between form and anti-form, the simultaneous contrast between red and green.

Perhaps the paint became, for de Kooning, a way of pinning down this figure to the picture-plane, literally a base on which to anchor the figure. Perhaps, too, the doubling of the teeth, lined-up above the formless piece of pure red pigment, and the resulting alignment along the central axis of the painting, was de Kooning mocking the seemingly irrational results of his enterprise. Form and anti-form may just be, in the end, a prison-house for de Kooning’s pictorial logic.

“Talent is a crushing burden, a curse, to the artist who would be modern, experimental, original, free,” wrote Rochelle Gurstein who reviewed this retrospective for The New Republic this month. “I couldn’t help feeling there was something tragic in the historical development that de Kooning represented”1 Gurstein wrote. What pressure was de Kooning under, with episodes of redemption, only to return to what must have felt to him like some kind of torture? Gurstein asked rhetorically.

I had just started primary school at the time de Kooning did this work. My mother had just joined a new religion that had come into town, the Baha’i Faith; my father had got a job closer to the centre of town, a town in Ontario’s Golden Horseshoe. I knew nothing of de Kooning and abstract impressionism immersed as I was in the years of middle childhood according to human development psychologists.-Ron Price with thanks to 1Rochelle Gurstein, “Abstract Expressionism's Most Traditional Artist,” The New Republic, 2 February 2012---for much of the above.

What was his inspiration, his creativity,
his intensity, capacity-extraordinaire as
an action painter to make psychic event
happen apparently spontaneously on his
canvases just after history’s worst war?

Was de Kooning’s apparent aim synthesis
of tradition and modernism? Did that aim
grant him more flexibility within the Late
Cubist confines of its canon of design???

The dream of a grand style hovers over all
this: the dream of a clearly grand & heroic
mix. He went so far as to draw with his left
hand, with his eyes closed, watching TV &
trying to get away, so I’m told, from talent.

Is this the pathos of what it meant to be a
modern artist of the ‘50s generation, a time
when a new and thrilling motion seemed to
be permeating the world of existence little
did he or virtually anyone else even know
back then in days when rock-‘n-roll was
about to wake people up from the dream
of Mr. Clean & Doris Day, General Ike &
luxury without stress, & no Negroes, & no
genitalia: please, not at all, pretty please!!2

1 From essays on de Kooning by Harold Rosenberg and Clement Greenberg.
2 The Fifties: The Way We Really Were, D.T. Miller & M. Nowak, Doubleday & Co., NY, 1977, p.302.

Ron Price
19-2-12.

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RonPrice 80, Male, Canada - 60 entries

Feb 2012
5:10 AM AEST

MOZART AND SHAYKH AHMAD

The years from the 1770s to the 1790s were the last years of Mozart’s life and the first years of the adult life of Shaykh Ahmad.²� They were the years of the French Revolution, the beginning of modern history and the reign of terror before the rise of Napoleon. Mozart created in the last years of his life(1775-1791) an almost incomparably rich legacy of works for keyboard, beginning with the six solo sonatas of 1775 and extending to such pieces as the final Concerto in B flat, K. 595, from 1791.¹� My prose-poem here attempts to examine what defies comprehensive elucidation by any scholar or poet--the specificities of the lives and the brilliant repertoires of these two geniuses, these two men gifted beyond all measure.� Both of their lives remain complicated puzzles in their respective worlds of classical music and Islamic mysticism.-Ron Price with thanks to ¹ William Kinderman, Mozart's Piano Music, Oxford UP, 2006; and ²Nabil’s Narrative, Wilmette, Bah�'� Publishing Trust, 1974(1932) , pp. 1-3.
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His¹ contemporaries found the restless
ambivalence and complicated emotional
content of his music difficult to understand;
and the ‘ulamas professed themselves unable
to comprehend the meaning of his² mysterious
allusions, but that movie³ enthralled audiences
and emblazoned the Amadeus theme blatantly,
claiming as it did a grand storyteller----license
to embellish that tale with a fictional ornament,
a surrealistic distortion, a metamorphosis, of a
life, the life of mirabile dictu Amadeus Mozart.
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How does one characterize an unexplainable
phenomenon, the mind of a musical savant?
A rather ordinary turn of mind, silly jokes, an
irresponsible way of life distinguished him in
society; and yet what depths, what worlds of
fantasy, harmony, melody, feeling concealed
behind this unpromising exterior in which we
now freely interpret his biographical-psyche..
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And the Shaykh from the town of Ahsa in the
district of Ahsa in the northeast of the Arabian
peninsula, luminous Star of a Divine guidance
who arose with unerring vision, fixed purpose
and sublime detachment at the age of forty to
prepare the way for a new Revelation of God---
what can we say about this controversial mystic,
this imaginative writer on metaphysical planes?⁴
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^1� Mozart
^2� Shaykh Ahmad
^3� Amadeus, a film directed by Milos Forman, released 1984.
⁴ �Juan Cole, “The World as Text: Cosmologies of Shaykh Ahmad
al-Ahsa’i,” Studia Islamica, Vol. 80, 1994, pp.145-163.
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Ron Price
30 March 2009

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MickeyMouse202 57, Female, Rhode Island, USA - 112 entries

Feb 2012
3:36 PM

Entry

Looks like an entryway to online, the way this is set up. The entry is quite pretty. Like a portal or something.

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thoskel1 66, Male, Ireland - 80 entries

Feb 2012
11:13 AM IST

Success and failure

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Finally got the water resolved.After making a few phone calls this morning I thought that I would have to get the house disconnect but just after 3 p.m. I got a call from the Celtic water guy(He is English by his accent) to sat he was in Ryehill and just as he was about to hang up I told him I would go down in ten minutes.After a few minutes he noticed that there was two meters.I had been paying twice for the same water .He took away one meter so I wont have to make any disconnection at all now.What a relief and he looked at�� Conroy's connection and said he . see about� it.

The speeding fine came back.They said the credit card would not work.They must have put in the wrong numbers to add to the frustration

I heard in the early news that there was an fatal accident in Colemanstown yesterday.Nobody local as it turned out.Peggy Nolan and Mary rang to find out who it was.A 38 year old Hungarian was the poor unfortunate.She had been living in Ned Murphy's house in Monivea.

I put €20 diesel the tractor.I was checking prices� to see would I order my own but all fuel is very dear at the moment.

Nearly €1 a litre to order it at home and just over €1 at Cookes

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KathrynL922 40, Female, Georgia, USA - 4 entries

Feb 2012
11:04 PM CDT

WOW... Time has flown by...

I'm such a bad Mom.� I can't believe the last time I wrote anything in here was almost 4 months ago!� Joshua has changed like crazy since then, of course.� He's finally getting a little taller!� Still not gaining weight, but atleast getting taller.� He's trying really hard to talk these days.� It's so cute!� And it's kind of nice to be able to communicate with him a little better.� Yesterday he started opening and closing doors... uh oh.� I think I really only have the bedroom doors to worry about for now, which is no biggie anyways since they're upstairs.� Joshua is still loving school, and had his first Valentine's Day party this past Tuesday. :)� He got some cute stuff!� Well, I think I'm going to get off here and wait for Tyler to call me. :)

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thoskel1 66, Male, Ireland - 80 entries

Feb 2012
5:53 PM BST

Write it down

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Got through a few thing today.It is amazing how you can get things done if you make a list first.

The dentists was ok.I had a bit of filling to do.Didn't even need an anasthetic.Mangan is an ok kind of guy.€40 to clean my teeth.

I spotted a bargain shirt on my way back to the car.Nearly €30 (half price) but it was just what I was looking for.

Went top Brody and Joyces then came home.

Had a good few jobs in Ryehil with the weanling and all but got them all done.
Should I disconnect one of the meters?It would save me a bit.I'l ring them tomorrow.
Got my medical card and also got a letter about means test for the Rss.It said something about rented property.I'll ring them tomorrow as well.

I am please the way the oil painting is coming along.Hope I can keep it up but it is not as easy as I first thought

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thoskel1 66, Male, Ireland - 80 entries

Feb 2012
12:04 PM BST

Positive and negative

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Had a Bad ad hair day yesterday.I got a real stinker when I opened a letter .It was a speeding fine from last Monday .It took place on my way home from the business class.I should have been more careful.It was dark and no other cars were on the road.It is a real trap.€80 and two penalty points.Qhat a waste of money.I was only 12 km over according to the lettere.I replied today.Better get it over with as soon as posssible.A real disappointment and i hope there is no more of them.

Then there was the water bill.I will have to get it sorted soon.

One positive was that i got the cow and weanling in with little bother.

I went to Monivea first thing this morning �for weanling ration.IU wonder do I need a mag bucket?I'll ask Brody tomorrow when i go for the cards after seeing the dentist.Money going out all over the pkace.I might have to cancel my holiday just as Aer lingus are advertising low air fare to Europe.

I met Martin Conroy just there at the water connection.Wew chatted a while and he said he would take a look for it.He is a sound guy as all the conroys.I just want to get it out of the way.Please God.

After feeding the weanling I came up.She was gone to Athenry to get the car ready for the NCT.She wasn't home till well after lunch time.
I got a few tasks that were on the long finger done.Planted the Tulip bulbs in the graveyard ,turned the compost heap and got the gas meter off in the post at Garbally castle.I did a meditation this morning and again this evening.I feel a little better..

I hope �go the Art course at about 7.20pm

I just get this listless feeling when I come into this house.I know that I am missing out on something.I keep getting this nagging thought that I have wasted a lot of my time.The only thing I can do is pray

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