Madonna

Madonna Louise Ciccone: ( Born August 16, 1958 ) American singer, songwriter, and actress. I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams. Everyone probably thinks that I’m a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I’d rather read a book. A… Lees verder Madonna

Mia Kirshner

Mia Kirshner: (Toronto, 25 January 1975) is a Canadian actress. She has played one of the regular characters in the television series The L Word since 2004. Kirshner is a daughter of Jewish parents. Her father is a journalist with Canadian Jewish News. He met Kirshner’s mother, a Bulgarian-Jewish refugee, in Israel. Kirshner studied Russian… Lees verder Mia Kirshner

Thom Gunn

How sociable the garden was. We ate and talked in the given light. The children put their toys on the grass. All the warm wakeful August night.

Sarah Orne Jewett

Theodora Sarah Orne Jewett: (September 3, 1849 – June 24, 1909). American novelist, short story writer and poet, best known for her local color works set along or near the southern coast of Maine. Jewett is recognized as an important practitioner of American literary regionalism. This was one of those perfect New England days in… Lees verder Sarah Orne Jewett

Max Heindel

Max Heindel: (Aarhus, Denmark, 23 July 1865 – Oceanside (California), United States, 6 January 1919). Pseudonym for Carl Louis von Grasshoff. Founder of the Rosicrucian Fellowship in Oceanside, California. He founded this movement in 1909 after, according to his own account, he was initiated into the mysteries of the Rosicrucians in 1907 by an unknown… Lees verder Max Heindel

Kent Nerburn

Kent Michael Nerburn: (born July 3, 1946 in Minneapolis, Minnesota). American author. He has published 16 books of creative non-fiction and essays, focusing on Native American and American culture and general spirituality. He won a Minnesota Book Award in 1995 for Neither Wolf Nor Dog and again in 2010 for The Wolf At Twilight The… Lees verder Kent Nerburn

Joseph Wood Krutch

Joseph Wood Krutch: (November 25, 1893 – May 22, 1970). American author, critic, and naturalist who wrote nature books on the American Southwest. He is known for developing a pantheistic philosophy. August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied. February, now more than ever, one must remind oneself that it is wasteful folly to wish… Lees verder Joseph Wood Krutch