Blog Detail
The Pavellas Perspective
http://pavellas.blogspot.com
Discussing ideas as expressed in writing, in music, in things observed while traveling, and by Nature Herself. Sometimes I write about food.
- Author: Ron Pavellas
- Listed in: Culture Writing
- Tags: travel books music literature philosophy history
Recent Posts
This Web Log Has Moved to: http://pavellas.com
Please go to http://pavellas.com...
Cascading Connections, Centering on the Poet Rainer Maria Rilke
As readers of this blog will know, Eva and I visited Prague as tourists for five days in late July this year. This was time enough only to sample just a very small part what this great city has to offer.I knew already that Prague and the country of w...
Tobacco: a Seduction
The first heavy smoker in my family to die was Uncle Tommy, my aunt Bee’s husband. He was around 65 and had a massive stroke which felled him, one side of his body completely disabled. He was confined to a hospital bed for a year before his death.I...
Beautiful Music from "The Vault"
Once again I've been privy to a wonderful musical occasion in Stockholm. This time it was in an underground "vault," Musik Valvet, in the Old Town.Please click on all imagesAs you can see in the above, there are posters for the artists presenting thi...
Upon Returning to a Former Scene
I was born in San Francisco, 1937. During my many and lengthy travels away from the city by the bay, I fondly remembered the murmurs, moans and whistles of foghorns in the morning, and the sight of the gently rounded pair of hills, Twin Peaks, in the...
Attempting to Comprehend Man, Part 2
[To see the first part of this article, click here]. So, why is Man not comprehensible to Man? Or, a better question, perhaps, is: how can Man (we) become comprehensible to Man (each other)?I answered the first question in summary form in Part 1. To ...
