Meeting Benches World art in all forms

It is easy to locate the best places to dine, shop and spend the night – no matter where your travels take you. You long for a relaxing trip along a scenic route, or an action-packed adventure? You can plan your Kansas getaway. This outdoor treat turns out to be an unexpected beauty for those who have never made the …

He was a legendary Grammy Award–winning jazz saxophonist who invented the musical style called bop or bebop. Charlie Parker was born on August day of 1920, in Kansas City. An only child, he moved with his parents to Kansas City, when he was 7 years old. By the time Charlie was 15, the alto saxophone was his instrument of choice. …

Lightning in Kansas City is the first chapter in the biography that Stanley Crouch dedicated to Charlie Parker, the greatest saxophonist of all time. This book reconstructs the life of ‘Bird’ in the years from birth in 1920 until 1940 (his childhood in Kansas City dominated from the underworld; the relationship with an overprotective mother; the marriage at sixteen and …

HOME – Poetry by Karen Cerio Flat lands, oceans of wheat, harvest hands, fields all neat friendly folks, warm smiles, country jokes, at home style, family fun, 4th of July, summer sun, stars in the sky, county fair, carnival lights, first place mare, dances at night, drive-in features, friends for life, old teachers, help in strife, tornado warnings, siren blasts. …

ELEONOR FINI 1/3 – She is considered one of the most important women artists of the mid-twentieth century. Her career, included painting, graphic design, book illustration, product design. She was a virtually self-taught artist, learing anatomy in the local morgue, and absorbing technique through books and visits to museums. In 1907 she born in Buenos Aires, in a August day, …

Polish folkloric music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_GqbIPP-g8 New Polish Sounds / My Darling Angel Waltz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqzVeJ2LCkg Myslovitz / Sound Of Solitude https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdmbuDD2hEE Warsaw Village Band / In the forest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQxlQyr0210

He was a Polish novelist (and the 1924 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature). His best-known work, is the award-winning four-volume novel The Peasants. He was born in the village of Kobiele Wielkie, near Radomsko. His mother, had a talent for story-telling. Władysław Reymont spent his childhood near Łódź, to which his father had moved in order to work …

ALLEGRO MA NON TROPPO – Poetry by Wislawa Szymborska Life, you’re beautiful (I say), you just couldn’t get more fecund, more befrogged or nightingaily, more anthillful or sproutspouting. I’m trying to court life’s favor, to get into its good graces, to anticipate its whims. I’m always the first to bow, always there where it can see me, with my humble, …

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 …