I often listen to StarTalk Radio while painting so here’s my tribute to Neil deGrasse Tyson.
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Happy birthday, Tennessee Williams. Here, a series of portraits of the great American playwright.
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Happy birthday, Robert Frost: Asked at his 80th birthday party (in 1954) about the most important thing he had learned about life, Robert Frost had this to say: “In three words, I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on. In all the confusions of today, with all our troubles … with politicians and people slinging the word fear around, all of us become discouraged … tempted to say this is the end, the finish. But life — it goes on. It always has. It always will. Don’t forget that.”
Frost’s comments were published in the L.A. Times on Sept. 5, 1954. You can read them in full here (the slider at the top right of the page allows you to zoom).
Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito have been ordered to stand trial again for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher, after Italy’s highest appeals court overturned their acquittals and paved the way for a potential extradition tussle between Italy and the US.
Photograph: Reuters (via Amanda Knox faces retrial over Meredith Kercher murder | World news | guardian.co.uk)









