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The Water Diviner by Debut Director Russell Crowe: Gallipoli’s Traumas
Thank you for visiting, WriterArtist!
Yes, this is a Russell Crowe film to see. It's a tragedy with a happy ending in its silver lining.
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/13/2023
Importance of Fairy Tales
Your first reason, Vocabulary and basic logic, accounts for why Albert Einstein thought so highly of fairy tales.
In particular, I like your pinpointing classic structure, conceptual understanding and quality communication.
Would it be ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/13/2023
Frances Brundage, an artist of picture books and postcards
The last image intrigues me.
The image is charming. The calligraphy is compelling.
The Thanksgiving Day greeting keeps my attention with the first line "Our thoughts are filled with thanks today" even as the second line that "Our stomachs ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/13/2023
Was Tirumala Tirupati Balaji Temple a Buddhist Shrine?
Have you visited Vrindavan? It's my sister's understanding that a lot of widows relocate there. Stessily had wanted to go there, but her itinerary was changed for a meeting in Tamil Nadu about her research, and she was disappointed (still is!) ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/13/2023
Is Buddhism older than Hinduism?
Historical linguistics assumes that older languages are more complicated structurally and that they simplify over time.
Going by that guideline I envision Hinduism as older than Buddhism. Hinduism is overall kinder about animal and plant ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/13/2023
Google PageRank: what do you need to know about it
The seventh subheading How to increase PageRank? ends with the observation that "You can get higher PR by adding fresh content, deleting duplicated content and checking your texts for typos."
Is that observation still true, and what is ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/13/2023
The Welsh Marches
I associate William the Marshal with a survivalist personality that ends up keeping his niche no matter who is in power even as it didn't secure daughter Isabel a happy marriage with Richard, less powerful as son of King John and Queen Isabella, ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/13/2023
Was Tirumala Tirupati Balaji Temple a Buddhist Shrine?
Dear DerdriuMarriner - For widowers, there is no custom of tonsure - none at all. They would happily remarry contrary to widows who had to remain shaved as a woman who was not deemed fit to remarry. Widowhood was considered inauspicious, barring ...
WriterArtist, on 06/13/2023
The Great Wave of Kanagawa from Japanese Artist Hokusai
The computer crashing kept me from adding another impression to my comment below yesterday.
Isn't it interesting that blue, brown, green and white are special colors and that they alone dominate The Great Wave of Kanagawa?
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/13/2023
Lighthouses of Ireland: Sentinels of the Sea Documentary
The Lighthouses of Ireland is one of my favorites as film and as DVD.
Some parts of Iceland actually look a bit like the Emerald Isle. I read everything that I can about and by Icelandic author Ragnar Jonasson, who sets some of his mysteries in ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/13/2023
Saiga Antelope: Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
There is a need to conserve many species endangered by human invasion. More forest reserves might be required for Saiga antelopes. They look a bit different from the deer with their elongated face. All said and done, they are beautiful and look ...
WriterArtist, on 06/13/2023
Rooted in Design by Tara Heibel, Tassy de Give: Sprout Home’s Creative Indoor Planting Guide
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Me too, I find that outdoor sentient plants do better in sunshine than indoor sentient plants do with reflected light.
You identify many of your houseplants as shade plants. Me too, that's something ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 06/13/2023
The Water Diviner by Debut Director Russell Crowe: Gallipoli’s Traumas
An ordeal for a grieving father Russel Crowe, he is at his best from what I can see from the trailer of "The Water Diviner". I am glad that with all the tragic events he had to undergo there is a satisfying ending.
WriterArtist, on 06/13/2023
Lighthouses of Ireland: Sentinels of the Sea Documentary
I have not seen many lighthouses in the places I have traveled. Perhaps, a travel to Ireland is needed to admire the coastlines and the lighthouses. To travel in this country is in my bucket of list.
WriterArtist, on 06/13/2023
Rooted in Design by Tara Heibel, Tassy de Give: Sprout Home’s Creative Indoor Planting Guide
I have tried planting indoors. I found that they do better in sunshine. Most of my plants were shade plants. Growth is not so remarkable compared to outdoors. They also got easily infected by mealybugs possibly due to increased humidity. I am ...
WriterArtist, on 06/13/2023