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Bill Ivans Gbafore
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Mar 21

Words and Symphonies

II Motions

Love

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Words and Symphonies
Words and Symphonies
Love

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Jan 13

Words and Symphonies

I. Ellipsis — the things we don’t say… I want to write a novel about silence; the things people don’t say. But the difficulty is immense. - Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out When Virginia Woolf started her masterpiece ‘The Voyage Out’ in 1912, she suffered long periods of depression and…

Ellipsis

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Words and Symphonies
Words and Symphonies
Ellipsis

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Oct 17, 2022

Words and Symphonies

- A Prologue The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable. — W.W. Auden The other day I was reading Nikita Gill’s ``Your Body is an Ocean ‘’ and she confessed, “I am going to write about us. And it won’t be the…

Words

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Words and Symphonies
Words and Symphonies
Words

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Sep 9, 2022

Aging — finding purpose and meaning to life

“Most of us go to our graves with our music still inside of us, unplayed.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes In his 1946 book Man’s Search for Meaning, Victor Frankl examined the experiences of prisoners in Nazi concentration camps during World War II, their responses to pain and torture, and how…

Aging

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Aging — Finding purpose and meaning to life
Aging — Finding purpose and meaning to life
Aging

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Jul 7, 2022

Fire Escapes

“…one can indeed escape the fire, and still perish through the means of that escape. — Ocean Vuong, The weight of our living: on hope, fire escapes, and visible desperations While walking the streets of Hartford mourning his Uncle who committed suicide, Ocean’s attention was drawn to the huge metals…

Escape

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Fire Escapes
Fire Escapes
Escape

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Dec 26, 2021

Lessons from ‘21

“ Life’s for the living so live it, or you’re better off dead… “ — Passenger I sat on a beach a few days ago with my friends beneath the trees, overlooking the rocks and the waves, and having reflections over the year. We reminiscence on major successes we have…

Life Lessons

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Lessons from ‘21
Lessons from ‘21
Life Lessons

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Oct 17, 2021

Lessons from Tommy Shelby: The Peaky Blinder from Birmingham

“Don’t expect what you give... Not everyone has a heart like you” — Tommy Shelby Tommy Shelby returned to Britain in 1919 as a War Hero from the First World War and was honoured for his bravery at the Battle of Verdun and the Battle of Somme. …

War

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Lessons from Tommy Shelby: The Peaky Blinder from Birmingham
Lessons from Tommy Shelby: The Peaky Blinder from Birmingham
War

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Sep 12, 2021

Into the Wreck

“Jack you have a gift, you see people” — Rose Two months ago I was watching “THE TITANIC” for the third time with a group of friends at a movie night. For three hours, we sat at the edge of our seats in a low-lit living room with snacks spread across the table, and all eyes on the screen. We…

Love

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Into the Wreck
Into the Wreck
Love

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Aug 20, 2021

Loving, Living, Ageing, and Dying

“Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.” — George Bernard Shaw I visited my Sponsor one morning before sunrise, and we talked about loving, living, ageing, and dying. I’d been out of…

Living

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Loving, Living, Ageing, and Dying
Loving, Living, Ageing, and Dying
Living

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Aug 2, 2021

Malcolm and Marie: The Moral Philosophies of Loving

“You know, you are the neediest man I have ever dated.” — Marie A few months ago, I bumped into Malcolm & Marie, a movie about misogyny, love, hate, passion, compassion, authenticity, mystery, racism, and the rollercoaster that go on in a relationship. I followed the screenplay and the characters…

Love

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Malcolm and Marie: The Moral Philosophies of Loving
Malcolm and Marie: The Moral Philosophies of Loving
Love

4 min read

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Bill Ivans Gbafore

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