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I wondered if this story might inspire poets to write about the misuse of power
in what is supposed to be a safe environment and a leading role model !
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The United Nations, which aspires to protect human rights ...
Actually, I was trying to avoid bringing up such unpleasantries as honor killings, but it is a major human rights issue, so maybe we should go there.
If anyone doesn't know, honor killing is the custom of having a girl or woman who has misbehaved...
I think perhaps I do not look at the world through rose coloured glasses..
But then again its always easier to walk away from a debate you know your going to lose......
Well, I think your concept of sexism might be different from mine, and I think there's too much involved to debate it fully here.
But I don't think the ultra-orthodox not wanting to see the female ministers is very important to the ministers, bec...
I have to wonder lousie what those female ministers would make of your comment....
Respectfully humoured..........What a pity Israel denies Palestinian girls the right to equal oppurtunity education..... well i should add palestinian girls and boy...
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- Descending from grandparents who traveled from homes in Hungary and Russia, silent lotus was born in America. He was raised in the small unique and historic community of Roosevelt, N.J.
In his mid twenties he left for the island of St. Maarten in the Caribbean to give priority to his talents as a visual artist. There he began a friendship with the songwriter Doug Shawe. And after two years, as crew of a 30-meter sailboat, he ventured across the Atlantic Ocean along with the owner, film producer Saul Zaentz. From the Mediterranean he traveled overland through Europe and settled in the city of Rotterdam. By the late 1970's,under his birth name CHASAN he began to exhibit his prints, paintings, sculptures and silk shawls in galleries and museums. It was then that he began a friendship with the photographer and poet Irwin Dermer who was residing in Switzerland.
From 1988 through 1991 he worked with the architect Maurizio Brocato in Sicily and painted in Milan at the invitation of Alessandro Goppion. In the early '90s he traveled for the first time to India to visit his brother who resides in Pondicherry. The nature of Ecuador was unveiled to him in the autumn of 2000 by the countries leading ornithological painter, his cousin, Paul Greenfield. During the spring of 2001 he met the artist Nermin Kura and over the next few years she introduced him to Istanbul and the culture of Turkey. The oeuvre of his visual art is known as “Icons Of Silence”. The flow of poetry blossomed a year after the turn of the century and presently there were well over twenty five hundred poems in his archive “Listening To Love”. They have found their way to being presented in Europe and America some on to the stage, others in exhibitions, pages of print journals, as well as poetry websites. His poem Feel The Peace was selected for the “Other Voices Anthology” in 2005. Interviews have been published in the journals Tiferet and Sacred Journey.
In November of 2004 in Brugge Belgium, there was an hour long performance of the poetry 'Listening To Love' created by the singer Lieve Blondelle together with the dancer Sabrina Spronk that was held in a cultural center that was formerly the Magdalena Church built circa 1800.
Along with the flow of art & poetry there has always been a presence that has attracted people to look for his spiritual guidance. He shares his vision individually as well as through seminars and retreats in many countries.
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Comment Wall (12 comments)
- At 7:04am on February 28, 2008,
Carole Eddington said… - Likewise! Thanks for adding me as a friend!
- At 12:10am on February 19, 2008,
Sandeep said… - Dear Silent Lotus
Thanks for the warm invitation and your welcoming note. . .I am very much looking forward to this wonderful community. . .
With regards!
Sandeep
- At 11:01pm on February 17, 2008,
Jonathan Weiss said… - Thank you for taking it Silent Lotus. Your friend, Jon
- At 6:30pm on February 17, 2008,
Megan said… - Thank you, yes I have heard of them but don't think I have worked with them directly yet. Ciao, Megan
- At 12:42pm on February 17, 2008,
Ivan M. Granger said… - silent lotus,
Thanks for the warm welcome note. I'm definitely interested to see how this online community will evolve as it grows.
Ivan
- At 12:13pm on February 16, 2008,
Ambika said… - Dear Silent Lotus ~ Thanks for your lovely note. Look forward to a sweet dialogue through our poetry. Ciao - Ambika
- At 5:29pm on February 15, 2008,
Ambika said…
- I understand. Thank you, Ambika
- At 8:14am on February 15, 2008,
Nancy Compton Williams said… - Thanks for your help in figuring out the layout for submission. Nancy
- At 9:35pm on February 14, 2008,
Michael Firewalker said… - It is an honor to be here, lotus, and I thank you for inviting me----will do my best...
michael
- At 6:04pm on February 14, 2008,
MysticSaint said… - Thank you Silent Lotus for inviting me here! what a beautiful group to be in!
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