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Harmonies of Heaven and Earth: Mysticism in Music from Antiquity to the Avant-Garde | Joscelyn Godwin

Browsing through books associated with this one, I learned a new word: ‘incunabula‘. I looked at a book list someone had made, ‘Books about incunabula and post-incunabula‘ and saw wonderful names I knew from the Renaissance. Now, I‘m looking back on a special memory from when my husband and I went to the Philadelphia library, upstairs, in the antique book room. I stood inches away from these ‘incunabula‘! *GETS CHILLS*🤓📚😍🤣

rebcamuse Music historian here— we ❤️ incunabula! 3w

Thatbooknerd @rebcamuse oooooh if that‘s your specialty, I would love to know your thoughts on the demon butt cheek sheet music featured in Hieronymus Bosch‘s ‘Garden of Earthly Delights‘! 3w

rebcamuse @Thatbooknerd beyond what‘s already out there, I have no additional musicological insights, I‘m afraid! That is one of my favorite instances of music in a painting, however 2w

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Mattsbookaday

Five People You Meet in Heaven | Mitch Albom

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Five People You Meet in Heaven, by Mitch Albom (2003)
⭐️⭐️

Premise: A crusty amusement park worker has five transforming encounters when he enters the afterlife.

Review: Stories about the afterlife are generally either cynical or sentimental, so I was expecting a certain amount of cringe here. But wow. ⬇️

Mattsbookaday this is without question the most, un-self-aware, saccharine slop I‘ve ever read. It does have some nice content on grace and forgiveness, but that‘s about the best I can say about it. I remember when this was everywhere; two decades later, I have to ask, WHY?!

Bookish Pair: If you need a healthy dose of afterlife cynicism after this, Here Goes Nothing, by Steve Toltz (2022) 3w

thegirlwiththelibrarybag He does basically just rewrite the same book over and over 3w

Mattsbookaday @thegirlwiththelibrarybag I‘ll never know because I‘ll never go near another one again! 😂 3w

thegirlwiththelibrarybag @Mattsbookaday 🤣 fair 3w

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Itchyfeetreader

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Light from the inside
Showing tantalising stacks
Doorways to other worlds

Hi @haikuhive it‘s been a while!

@dabbe
@DebinHawaii
@Mimi28
@TheBookHippie
@JenlovesJT47
@Reggie
@vivastory
@Eggs
@jdiehr
@TheSpineView
@CBee
@lil1inblue
@julieclair
@AnnCrystal

charl08 Ooh, such a tempting doorway! 1mo

Itchyfeetreader @charl08 I confess I succumbed! 1mo

TheBookHippie Oh that looks like fun! 1mo

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DebinHawaii Lovely! 1mo

JenlovesJT47 Ahh I can smell it! #heaven 1mo

AnnCrystal Magical Portal 👏🏼🐝👍🏼🤩📚🐝💝. 1mo

dabbe L📘VELY to see you! Fabulous haiku, too! ♥️🍁🧡 1mo

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Bette

The Heaven of Animals | Nancy Tillman

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Not new, but new to me.
“With all of my heart, I believe it is true that there is a heaven for animals too.”
“You‘ll grow older, I will, too. But when you meet your friends again, they‘ll see you as they saw you then.
And you‘ll find they always knew how much they were loved…and how much they loved you.”
(I really hope so.)

AnnCrystal 👏🏼🥲💫💝. 2mo

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TheEllieMo

The Lovely Bones | Sebold, Alice

#Bones
#HauntsAndHexes
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Great choice 🩵🤍 3mo

Eggs Powerful reading 😢😔 3mo

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Sanoja

Hosting the Presence: Unveiling Heaven's Agenda | Bill Johnson

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A dedicated server is often considered the backbone of a reliable online presence for businesses that rely heavily on digital platforms. Unlike shared hosting, where multiple users compete for the same resources, a dedicated setup provides a business with exclusive access to server capabilities.

https://leapswitch.com/delhi-india/dedicated-servers/

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dabbe

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#haikuaday #haikuhive

Such history this town has! We spent the day eating and shopping along its water front. #heaven @TheLudicReader 🩵

St. Andrews by-the-Sea––
Lunch and drinks on the water––
tides dance, time stands still.

Kristy_K, DebinHawaii, Mimi28, TheBookHippie, JenlovesJT47, Susanita, Reggie, vivastory, Itchyfeetreader, jdiehr, CBee, dabbe, kelli7990, Jari-chan, ImperfectCJ, lil1inblue, The_Book_Ninja, julieclair, AnnCrystal, bellabella, BooksandCoffee4Me

KadaGul Look 👀 @ @TheLudicReader, she is smiling 😊 ear to ear and I'm 💯 sure @dabbe is smiling the same way. #EndlessSummer 5mo

TheBookHippie ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ 5mo

JenlovesJT47 🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷 5mo

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Amiable I love that you summarized your whole trip in haikus! 5mo

AnnCrystal
Wonderful Fun 👏🏼🐝👍🏼🥳🥙🥤🛍️💦🐝💝. 5mo

dabbe @KadaGul We were. 🩵💙🩵 5mo

dabbe @TheBookHippie 🩵💙🩵 5mo

dabbe @JenlovesJT47 🩵💙🩵 5mo

dabbe @Amiable I tried! 😍😂😍 5mo

dabbe @AnnCrystal It truly was. 🩵💙🩵 5mo

TheLudicReader Hahaha. 5mo

dabbe @TheLudicReader Shush. You are adorable. 🩵💙🩵 5mo

lil1inblue This is beautiful! 😍 5mo

dabbe @lil1inblue Tell that to Miss Hahaha above. @TheLudicReader 💙🩵💙 5mo

julieclair Tides dance, time stands still. Perfection! 5mo

dabbe @julieclair TY! 💙🩵💙 5mo

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dabbe

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#haikuaday
#haikuhive

Just enjoyed a full-throttle monsoon storm up in Pine, AZ. Temps dropped from 95º to 66º in 10 minutes. #heaven

Happily crunching
on pine needles in the rain.
What a perfect day.

Kristy_K, DebinHawaii, Mimi28, TheBookHippie, JenlovesJT47, Susanita, Reggie, vivastory, Itchyfeetreader, jdiehr, CBee, dabbe, kelli7990, Jari-chan, ImperfectCJ, lil1inblue, julieclair, AnnCrystal, bellabella, BooksandCoffee4Me

JenlovesJT47 Sounds heavenly! 💚💚💚 6mo

AmyG Is that an elk? 6mo

lil1inblue Love! 💚💚💚 6mo

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dabbe @JenlovesJT47 It was! 💚💚💚 6mo

dabbe @AmyG Yep. We're seeing tons of them up here, and they're not afraid of us at all! I could have reached out and touched this one. 💚💚💚 6mo

MemoirsForMe Wow! What a cool photo! 😍 6mo

Amiable 30 degrees in 10 minutes! That must have felt like falling into a cold pool. 😳😬😀 6mo

Itchyfeetreader Love the sense of being nature in this one 6mo

Susanita Oh deer 6mo

dabbe @MemoirsForMe TY! 💚💚💚 6mo

dabbe @Amiable It did! 💚💚💚 6mo

dabbe @Itchyfeetreader Even if she's munching in front of a house! 💚💚💚 6mo

dabbe @Susanita 😂😍😂 6mo

AmyG Wow! We get elk in the winter and ours are the biggest scaredy cats. Beautiful! 6mo

dabbe @AmyG 😍 6mo

AnnCrystal 🤩 An Elk happily crunching a meal, how beautiful indeed 👏🏼🐝👌🏼🦌🐝💝. 6mo

CBee Lovely ♥️ 6mo

dabbe @AnnCrystal IKR? 💚💚💚 6mo

dabbe @CBee TY! 💚💚💚 6mo

julieclair I‘ve never seen an elk. When I first saw your picture, I thought, wow, that deer is huge! 😂 5mo

dabbe @julieclair She was also very well fed! Look at her belly! 😂💚😂 5mo

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Cosmos_Moon_River

Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey Into the Afterlife | Eben Alexander

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A friend recommended this after we had some deaths in my family. I enjoyed the perspective of the afterlife from a near-death experience of a neurosurgeon including his own doubts and scientific frame of reference.

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