Meeting Benches World art in all forms

Welcome to Nida, Lithuania. At one time, this was a fishing village, overlooking the beautiful peninsula of Neringa (a strip of land separating the Curonian Lagoon from the Baltic Sea). Today, as you are also able to see, Nida is a tourist center, with beautiful beaches and white sand dunes, all surrounded by pine forests. http://www.lithuania.travel/en-gb/ What to see? We …

NAOTO HATTORI 1/3 – Ignoring all rules, he paints whatever comes into his stream of consciousness. However, he starts each painting by making many sketches to put all his thoughts together. His vision is like a nightmare, or just a trippy dream. First, just take it in as it is and paint whatever you see in your mind with no …

Japan? Is so much more than the land of karaoke, Hello Kitty, Manga and Harajuku style. Travel to Japan and you’ll soon see that it’s also home to outlandish game shows, bizarre vending machines, old school sake breweries, and a population of faultlessly considerate people. Travelling in Japan is guaranteed to produce more mind-blowing moments per minute than almost anywhere …

Yukio Mishima was born in Tokyo on January 14, 1925. Writer, playwright, essayist and poet, he was also well known as an actor and film director. His numerous works ranged from the novel to modernizzatee adapted forms in a modern traditional Japanese theater. A grandmother will become a very important figure in the development of his character, both as regards …

THE TWO OF US – Rina Takamatsu poem If it was just the two of us, I’d whisper in your ear, Ill take you by the hand and we’d fly, away from life, away from death, you’d hold me close and together we’d jump, fall into the sky, fall into the galaxy. But it’s not the two of us, theres …

ALBERT BLOCH 1/3 – He was born in St. Louis (Missouri), to a Bohemian-Jewish immigrant father and a mother who was a German Jew, but he was not raised in the Jewish faith and he later adopted a form of Christianity. He studied art at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts. He was an American Modernist artist, the only …

Oh Shenandoah – Across the Wide Missouri https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etC59HVD-tg FireFest – New Haven, Missouri https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcmOqe0mcPI Women of Old Time Music – Tradition and Change in the Missouri Ozarks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfZA_bZJ_EU Tef Poe – Coming Outta Missouri https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWtZ_A3VrQg

He was born in an August day, 1922. John Edward Williams was an American author, best known for his novels Stoner. He was raised in northeast Texas, and his grandparents were farmers. He served in the Army Air Corps in Asia in World War II, becoming a sergeant. At the end of the war, he moved to Denver, Colorado and …

FROM PAUMANOK STARTING – Walt Whitman Poem From Paumanock starting, I fly like a bird, around and around to soar, to sing the idea of all. To the north betaking myself, to sing there arctic songs, to Kanada, till I absorb Kanada in myself-to Michigan then, to Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, to sing their songs, (they are inimitable). Then to Ohio …

Everyone loves to travel, but not everyone loves to travel the same way. All you have to do is have the time in your life. Meeting Benches. The way to make the world a better place is easy. Choose a bench, where you can publish what you have painted or written, a review of a book that you’ve read, or …

Everyone loves to travel, but not everyone loves to travel the same way. All you have to do is have the time in your life. Meeting Benches. The way to make the world a better place is easy. Choose a bench, where you can publish what you have painted or written, a review of a book that you’ve read, or …