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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · Oct 19
🐸An experimental, wandering, out of synch video I made to accompany the Calefax Reed Quintet's great recording of my piece, Ranae. Taken while listening on my headphones in the brilliance of the afternoon light on a hillside full of wild flowers underneath Fort St. Jean in Villeneuve lez Avignon.🐸
Jeffrey Harrington: Ranae for Reed Quintet Performed by the Calefax Reed Quintet
YouTube video by Jeffrey Harrington
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new piano music, written in 2022 available: piano preludes, #24, 25:

Piano Prelude No.24
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Piano Prelude No.25
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New recording: Piano Prelude No.25
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February 12, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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Thomas Merton's letter to a young activist:

'Do not depend on the hope of results... concentrate not on the results but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself.'

jimandnancyforest.com/2014/10/mert...
And then this: do not depend on the hope of results. When you are doing the sort of work you have taken on, essentially an apostolic work, you may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea you start more and more to concentrate not on the results but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself. And there too a great deal has to be gone through, as gradually you struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for specific people. The range tends to narrow down, but it gets much more real. In the end, as you yourself mention in passing, it is the reality of personal relationships that saves everything.
February 8, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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Leave it to a Jesuit to praise dish-washing as revelation, Father James Martin on how his real world working life inspired him:
"Eventually You Have To Be Your True Self" - Father James Martin On The Jobs That Helped Him Grow Up
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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February 4, 2026 at 2:10 PM
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A line of baby stars follow a shock wave, inter-galactic consequences of the first confirmed rogue supermassive black hole, probably ejected during a galactic merger.

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February 4, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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as these frightening times progress, staying positive at ALL tmes and remembering always that there is absolutely no benefit from harming yourself, or others, is the ONLY way. 🙏🙏
January 18, 2026 at 9:03 PM
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revising my ittle song for sop. and sq, El aire se serena, that i wrote for a 1986 tulane req. but was never ultimately premiered. a setting of a 16th c. spanish religious poem celebrating a musician.

A Francisco Salinas by Fray Luis de León

Original text: www.poesi.as/fll03.htm
ODE TO FRANCISCO SALINAS To Francisco Salinas Catedrático de Música de la Universidad de Salamanca The air becomes serene and is clothed in beauty and strange radiance, Salinas, when there sounds the incomparable music governed by your skilled hand. At that heavenly sound my soul, that is sunk in forgetfulness, recovers its judgement and the lost memory of its first, exalted origin. And as it knows itself, it improves its fate and thought; it disdains the gold that the blind multitude worships, and perishable, deceitful beauty. It traverses the ether until it reaches the highest sphere, and there it hears another mode of imperishable music, the first, the source of all. It sees how the Great Master, playing this immense cither, with skilled movement produces the sacred sound by wich this eternal temple is sustained. And as it is composed of concordant numbers, it emits a consonant response, and from their vying is mingled the sweetest harmony. Here the soul steers through a sea of sweetness, and at last sinks so deep within, that it hears or feels no strange or rare event. O blessed trance! O death that gives life! O sweet oblivion! Could I but remain in your repose without being restored ever to these low and abject senses! To this bliss I call you glory of Apollo's sacred choir, friends whom I love beyond all treasure, since all visible things are sorrowful tears. Oh, may your music, Salinas, sound everlastingly in my ears; hearing it, my senses awaken to God's goodness, and to all else remain oblivious.
January 18, 2026 at 2:38 PM
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for those that understand, it's enough...
parnasse.com Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · Apr 8
The Followers of the Way are protected...

-Zen Teaching
radicalgraffiti.bsky.social Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · Apr 7
"My girls protect me, not the cops."
Seen in Paris, France
January 17, 2026 at 2:32 PM
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“The aftermath of nonviolence is the creation of the beloved community. The aftermath of nonviolence is redemption."

-- Martin Luther King
January 16, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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toad sits in water surrounded by hopeful vocalizations... 😎
toad sits in water surrounded by hopeful vocalizations...
January 14, 2026 at 3:29 PM
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RIP Bela Tarr, w/an extraordinary clarification:

“My opinion is that we were doing comedies. You can laugh a lot. I only ask this, how did you feel when you came out of the movie theatre after watching my film? Did you feel stronger or weaker? That’s the main question. I want you to be stronger."
“My opinion is that we were doing comedies. You can laugh a lot.” He added that they were not pessimistic. “I only ask this – how did you feel when you came out of the movie theatre after watching my film? Did you feel stronger or weaker? That’s the main question. I want you to be stronger.”
January 6, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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Been a busy few days of birthdays, holidays, and anniversaries: We celebrated 44 years of marriage yesterday!

Rome restaurant menu gazing w/Elsie in 2005?
Rome restaurant menu gazing w/Elsie in 2005?
January 5, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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Big news for anyone w/MS:

'Scientists have detected two new biological strands of MS using AI, a simple blood test and MRI scans. Experts said the “exciting” breakthrough could revolutionise treatment of the disease worldwide.'
Two new subtypes of MS found in ‘exciting’ breakthrough
Exclusive: Scientists uncovered biological strands using artificial intelligence and hope discovery will revolutionise treatment
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January 1, 2026 at 1:44 PM
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A video of a protester sitting in the street and facing down police on motorbikes during demonstrations that erupted in Tehran in recent days has gone viral on social media, with some observers calling it Iran's "Tiananmen moment".

france24 report:
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A video of a protester sitting in the street and facing down police on motorbikes during demonstrations that erupted in Tehran in recent days has gone viral on social media, with some observers calling it Iran's "Tiananmen moment". Protesters including shopkeepers and university students have been rallying against
December 31, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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biggest crowds yet with a new sense of hopeful urgency as the buddhist walk for peace arrives in decatur, georgia. they hope to reach the white house 2/13.

local news report:
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biggest crowds yet in the buddhist walk for peace in decatur, georgia.
December 31, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Why are private detecives taught to never stare when following someone? Under surveillance, how do we build a relationship w/the suspected camera locations?

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Scopaesthesia challenges the limits of consciousness | Rupert Sheldrake | IAI
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December 30, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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A pair of colliding spiral galaxies. Here, both spirals are shown face on, with the smaller of the two galaxies, IC 2163, at the upper left of the larger galaxy, NGC 2207, which dominates the center and lower right of the image.
mbkplus.bsky.social Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · Dec 29
Happy belated birthday to JWST, which was launched on Christmas Day 2021. I hope it has many more years of transformative science ahead of it. 🧪
A pair of colliding spiral galaxies. Here, both spirals are shown face on, with the smaller of the two galaxies, IC 2163, at the upper left of the larger galaxy, NGC 2207, which dominates the center and lower right of the image. Both galaxies have long, spiraling, silver blue arms, dotted with specs of blue and red. Toward our upper left, the curving arms overlap, and bend toward their neighbors' core.
December 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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December 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Hey Ronnie, come on in... 😆
December 25, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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"How, then, can we not think of the tents in Gaza, exposed for weeks to rain, wind and cold?" he asked.
December 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Nazaré - Lucas Chumbo surfs the mountain while his jetski partner marvels:

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Nazaré - Lucas Chumbo surfs the mountain
December 21, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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I worked in the classical basement on 46th St. in '82. Morton Feldman and Bunita Marcus came in looking for the Ruth Crawford Seeger quartet. I was glad to be of assistance. 😉
December 21, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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The #1 movie from when you were 10 is how your 2026 is going to go... 🫣
December 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Boy in a window looks at the snow
December 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Weird way to find your Brass Quintet, used as an example of transposing instruments in a Brazilian harmony textbook:😎
December 19, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Citizen who presented legal proof transferred to LA deportation camp:

Born in 2003 in Prince George’s County, MD. “It was very random,” Slatton said. “I don’t see any reason why they would have been targeting her, except she was speaking Spanish. Slatton was blunt: “She does not present as White.”
born in 2003 in Prince George’s County. Today, instead of preparing for Christmas with her family, she is being held inside an ICE detention facility in Louisiana, 1,200 miles away from the hospital where she entered the world as an American citizen.
December 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM