Ashley's Philosophy Corner

   "Beauty is so differently perceived, and it hurts when one is unable to share it."

--Macy Adams

Austin's Funnies Corner

    I spend hours practicing the cello part to the symphony. Then I go and listen to the actual song. And suddenly, my life makes sense.

    Ah, cello humor.

I love this show. Witty humor, inspiring innovation and intellect, and a song in every episode. :)

Alex's Random Awesome Corner

The Grave and the Rose

By: Victor Hugo

The Grave said to the Rose,

"What of the dews of dawn,
Love's flower, what end is theirs?"
"And what of spirits flown,
The souls whereon doth close
The tomb's mouth unawares?"
The Rose said to the Grave.

The Rose said, "In the shade
From the dawn's tears is made
A perfume faint and strange,
Amber and honey sweet."
"And all the spirits fleet
Do suffer a sky-change,
More strangely than the dew,
To God's own angels new,"
The Grave said to the Rose.


This is such a beautiful poem, and of course it is by French poet, author, and philosopher Victor Hugo, who is someone I greatly admire and look up to.

Anna's All Things Classical and Jazz

I recently fell in love with this piece. It has such a melancholy feel to it, and yet it's so passionate. There's so much you can imagine with it.

Ashley's Philosophy Corner

"There is a great deal of truth not manifest in books or poems, in paintings or music. As much as I love them all, there is some truth you simply feel, you simply know -hard, and yet soft inside you. In the conquest of the artist, this is one of the deepest understandings you can gain, for it is that understanding that art -the very medium of understanding- is not necessary when within you there is truth found already."

--Macy Adams

"Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny." 

--Carl Schurz

Austin's Funnies Corner

What could be better? :)

Alex's Random Awesome Corner

I watched these for a Geography Class. Extremely fascinating.
--In addition, the book -"The World Is Flat"- I just finished. Incredible, and highly recommended, (Similar to these the above.)

Anna's All Things Classical and Jazz

Love it!

Ashley's Philosophy Corner

This was an almost a life-changing quote from Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles's talk in General Conference.

"The famous Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is quoted as saying, 'It is time … to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.' Latter-day Saints...recognize that qualifying for exaltation is not a matter of asserting rights but a matter of fulfilling responsibilities."

https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2014/04/the-keys-and-authority-of-the-priesthood?lang=eng

Austin's Funnies Corner

Found this. Pretty nice. :)

Alex's Random Awesome Corner

There is everything to love in this.

I also really loved this video, which surprised me, because I for the longest time have detested Vocal Point's version of this song because I thought it was too noxious and techno, but seeing it in this video, seeing so many modern young men singing it, was just so beautiful.

Anna's All Things Classical and Jazz

Just...watch.

I adore this song, and to see a young girl play it...so lovely. I look forward to the day when I get my harp, greatly.

Ashley's Philosophy Corner

"After all we do, everything we try, the magnitude of our efforts, the world will corrupt our children. Our job is only to reinforce them with enough good to give them the chance to take both and sort out the best person they can."

"Truth and perspective are such mingled, coiled ideas."

"Once you know you're shallow, you know you're not."

"Love is never something you should sacrafice. It's something you sacrafice for."

"The man who enjoys all subjects will be the first man who can carry on a good conversation with God."

"Better to die than to crawl. Either we stand or we fall."
--From the song "Once and For All" in Newsies

"Sometimes all it takes is a voice. One voice that becomes a hundred, then a thousand -
 Unless it's silenced."

--Bryan Denton in Newsies

"You can't break my spirit. Only I have that kind of power."

--All other quotes from Macy Adams

Austin's Funnies Corner

Witty humor. The best. (Above and below.)

Alex's Random Awesome Corner

I heard the first line of this song in the BBC "Little Dorrit" a few years ago, and ever since my cousin watched it, we have been avid adorers of this song, (especially when it's done in a British accent :). Paired with these pictures -belle. (Beautiful)

I also sang a similar version of this in a little 4th grade show once, and have ever since loved this song as well. I am adding this lady to the long list of people I have 'met' on the internet and now admire. Beautiful voice -and her selections! Not to mention the harp...just, "if there is anything virtuous, lovely, of good report, or praiseworthy, we seek after these things."

Anna's All Things Classical and Jazz

I just discovered this crooner -Vic Damone. Can't beleive I hadn't before! Anyway, he sang "Maria" from West Side Story, and it is so beautiful and stirring. The song its self, but with him singing it...

Another video of my sister's choir in the really splendid cathedral place. The filming is not the best, but it works with the style of the piece, which is tres chouette (really cool), anyway. :)

This is also just such a beautiful, peaceful song, that fills you with that stillness and warmth that is well explained in the song. My sister, (ah, the infamous) also worked with this conductor once, who's world-renound.

Ashley's Philosophy Corner

I love romance. A lot. I think it is the most beautiful, and sweet, and wonderful thing ever. And so, I kind of went on a little craze...all three of these are exactly as described above, and this one has a moral and quote attached. :) 

Austin's Funnies Corner

I wouldn't necessarily call this one funny, but it's a more amusing, light-hearted romance, and a good contrast in styles/eras. (Great movie, by the way.) :)

Alex's Random Awesome Corner


This is just a really cool article. I especially love the wording.
http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/why-religion-matters-salt-of-society?cid=HPTH051514140

This one's rather different, and it's interesting trying to think about it.

And to save the best for last. This is by far the finale. And knowing my different loves, you'll have to understand one of the big reasons is because it's in Paris, France. And not only that, but I just kind of see me as the girl. I'm not sure what her nationality is, but she looks Filipino to me. And she's living exactly what my dream is -to be an independent in Paris, wearing the kind of lovely clothes as she does, enjoying the artistic pleasure of being there, and most of all, getting the opportunity to meet up with strangers and help them, and of course, if a romance were to enfold, well...that would not be unwelcome, either. :) This video, in everything that it is, is my dream. 

Anna's All Things Classical and Jazz

    I'm going to say this is classical, but "Uncle Tom's Cabin."  A million words could not sum it up -the misconceptions, the philosophies, the ideas, the known effect on humanity and therefore history, particularly within America- all that we define it as, regard it as, and should be doing so as. Incredible, absolutely incredible book. (I have less than a hundred pages to finish it.) Any who haven't read...I shouldn't have to go on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7jYT_CW8ZM

We're singing this song in my choir. Love it so much! Plus these fellers do it with Italian accents, and at a jaunty angle, not to mention the piano solo. Jazz. That's all I gotta say. :)