On studying the Classics

Would it not be nice to know the classics?  

Then you consider The Bible, and you remember Shakespeare, and you smile and shake your head because you've been classicking all along.  It does not get more classical than those.  

And so when a child learns at Koranic school, or an auntie tells a folk Yoruba story maybe with its own song and drums ... the beautifulness of life in that moment is complete and connected to the past so far back as to be valued as classic.  

How old is language?  All human speech, the older languages, the newest language? 

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the #unga

The 80th session of the United Nations' General Assembly. 

The theme of session is ‘Better Together: 80 years and more for peace, development and human rights’.

Ah, the speeches.  

You are welcome to view and listen to every single country's presentation...How big are your ears?  

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a brag about reading.

I savour the joy of travelling through other worlds while not leaving the current one.  I am currently reading about Tuvalu in this lush piece of journalistic literature.

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Carmen y Allan, el clásico

 

Paso Doble.
#goals #Y8

  The usual strange things happened so that this dance video here now (July 28th) is disgustingly inferior to the perfection it was the day I first discovered it (July 21st) yes, in the same video, somehow someone edits these things.  It has now been so mutilated, it's for me now unwatchable (July 30th). Ah well.  You should have seen them; they (Allan and Carmen) were sublime.  There's a chance that what you see is fine, that you are presented with the pre- destruction version.  If so, yayyy, congrats. Yipppeee. (History: Preposted late July and added notes late July for early August scheduled post.)

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Street Fashion

What I have been intending to write here for weeks is just how lovely it is to watch the fashion offerings, especially on Sundays here in Lagos. We have at least a million queens!

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