Category Archives: Longevity & Legacy Portraits

Summer Shorts 56: Nicholas Brothers – Pure Joy, Every Ounce of Energy.

A final Summer Shorts 2022 segment, my quick blog musing for the lazy, hazy days of summer, subject matter featuring historical and whimsical icons of longevity. In memory of Fayard Nicholas (1914 – 2006) Harold Nicholas (1921 – 2000) Pure joy! Over the years, every time I have watched the Nicholas Brothers dance number from

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Summer Shorts 55: Telescoping Five Billion Years of Solitude.

In light of my last two 2022 Summer Shorts posts on Galileo’s Relic and the Time Machine in Brompton Cemetery; and fast upon the arrival of the Webb Telescope images in mid-July, somehow I found myself reaching for a book I bought on sheer spec and read in the summer of 2013 – Five Billion

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Summer Shorts 53: Galileo’s Relic, Tales from the Tip of His Finger.

When in Florence, that Renaissance treasure box of historical figures, I choose to wander solo about the enthralling walkable city, on and off the main streets to enter locations where I know I will meet the spirits of some of the city’s most famous notables – Dante, Brunelleschi, Michelangelo, Donatello, Machiavelli, all those Medici and

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Summer Shorts 52: A Father’s Tale of the Farthing Breakfast.

Feeding hungry school children is sadly so, a global need; and school breakfast programs still exist in some form or other in low, middle and high income countries all around the world. Got me thinking, turning back the clock in history, should it be surprising to see how some issues follow us through the course

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