Songs
The lyrics from some songs and other poems that we feel are worth reading, and re-reading.
The title is derived from the fourteen paintings in the Rothko Chapel in Houston Texas.
Mark Rothko committed suicide before the chapel was completed in 1971.
"A sacred space open to all, established to advance human rights, interfaith understanding, and justice."
Kasia's immediate response to news of the earthquake in Haiti.
Langston Hughes was an American novelist, playwright, short story writer, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the literary art form dubbed "jazz poetry". In the late spring of 1932 he visited Haiti for his only visit there. He spent about three months in Port-au-Prince and Cap Haitien. In Cap Haitien he scandalized the hotel manager where he stayed by going out barefoot to meet and talk with fishermen along the water front in Okap.
Whilst leaving Haiti virtually penniless, he had to go via Port-au-Prince on a ship to Cuba. He had one person he wanted to visit: Jacques Roumain, then a minister in the Haitian government, and already a famous author whom Hughes respected a great deal.
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