My first experience of the traditional Samoan Tatau (tuh-tah-uw)was in 1990 at a Volleyball tournament in Melbourne Australia. I saw a young man enter the stadium and remove his track pants to reveal what I thought at the time to be an intricately patterned pair of bike pants. I pointed the bike pants out to [...]

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“Love of beauty and the desire to create it is a primal instinct of man.” Eleanor McMillan BrownThis weekend brought me the privilege of chaperoning forty musicians to the Catskill Mountains of New York for a youth orchestra retreat. Designed as a scenic get-away in which to ardently rehearse for an upcoming concert, it proved [...]

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Entering the private world of a master poet is indeed a gift from God.In her lonely room …Nuance, alliteration, heroism, mettle, valor bravery and heart;Colon’s, comma’s, apostrophe’s, periods exclamation points, question marks and words.Red ink is on the ribbon plateA small blister on her thumb.During the twentieth century one of the most influential poets is [...]

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