Quotation -- Art

Truth Tellers: Leo Tolstoy, in Love With Truth

 

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy) 1828 - 1910

 “Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement;  art is a great matter.  Only through the influence of art the peaceful cooperation of man will come about, and all violence will be set aside.”

An interesting biographical snippet:

It may surprise some readers to learn that of all art forms, the great Leo Tolstoy, the great man of letters, was most moved by music. His son, Serge, a composer, said that no man he had ever known was so deeply affected by music as his father. Notable people witnessed his reaction to music as well. The great Russian basso Feodor Chaliapin recalled that when he came to sing for Tolstoy, Sofia Tolstoya drew him aside saying: “It might be that when you sing, my husband will shed tears. Please try not to notice, as he would feel terribly ashamed.” Tchaikovsky also noted in his diary: “Perhaps I have never in my life been so gratified and my creative ambition so touched as when L.N. Tolstoy, sitting beside me and listening to the andante of my First String Quartet, burst into tears.”

Raymond Beegle

Complete Article:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/truth-tellers-leo-tolstoy-in-love-with-truth_3533979.html

Snippets 15 (a) & (b)

 When there appears more than one interesting item each day it seemed that this format is suitable -- I hope that you agree.

(a)  Puppies -- Sick dogs trigger questions about imported pets, respected purebred Puppy List.  As Canada faces a surge of thousands of puppies imported from eastern Europe, where puppy mills are rampant, the very organization Canadians might expect to be cracking down appears to be lending legitimacy to questionable sellers.

newsletter@cbc.ca

(b)  Immigrants -- Today marks a day of both hope and anxiety for immigrants desperate to bring their parents or grandparents to live permanently in Canada, as a controversial lottery process for family reunification opens.

newsletter@cbc.ca

Push -- Feature Version

 I am very grateful to John for bringing this very important video to our attention.

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Housing prices are skyrocketing in cities around the world. Incomes are not. Push sheds light on a new kind of faceless landlord, increasingly unliveable cities, and an escalating housing crisis. The film follows Leilani Farha, the UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, as she's travelling the globe, trying to understand who's being pushed out of the city and why.

https://www.tvo.org/video/documentaries/push-feature-version

tvo

Snippet 14 -- China Ties to US Riots Exposed

BY ELLA KIETLINSKA & TREVOR LOUDON

Most of the riots that racked the United States within the last few months were organized by two socialist organizations which have close ties with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), said Trevor Loudon, author, and filmmaker, who has been researching radical and terrorist groups and their covert influence on mainstream politics for more than 30 years.

The Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) based out of Minneapolis, an openly pro-CCP organization, and Bay Area-based Liberation Road, with very close ties to the Chinese consulate there and the Chinese Progressive Association (CPA), are behind the recent riots, Loudon said in a recent interview on Epoch Times’ Crossroads program.

Total article click here.

Snippet 13 -- There is a socialist coup unfolding in Canada ...

 ... and we taxpayers are funding it.

""Under this socialist revolution, there is no need to confiscate your property

 — they can simply redistribute your wealth."

Leslyn Lewis

National Post

Canada is quietly going through a socialist coup.

If I had written these words just one year ago, it would have been deemed conspiratorial. But I have heard from too many Canadians over the past six months about what they have seen taking place. Ever since Justin Trudeau tried to grant himself king-like powers at the beginning of the COVID crisis, what we have been witnessing in Canada is a socialist coup that we, the taxpayers, are funding.

Read more here

You Would Never have Thought ...

 ... had I not told you

PHOTOGRAPH BY EMMANUEL RONDEAU, ALAMY

Song: When the humans quieted in COVID-19-stricken San Francisco, the songbirds could hear. With traffic diminished, the songs of the white-crowned sparrow (pictured above) improved surprisingly fast, a new study says. “The songs didn’t change as much as we predicted—they changed even more,”  ecologist Liz Derryberry tells us. “It highlights just how big of an effect noise pollution has.” NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC