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10/03/2025

An Artist's Almanac for October 3, 2025

These are some of the things humans have managed to do over the years. Today's film came out in 1997. It starred Sean Penn, Jennifer Lopez, Nick Nolte, Billy Bob Thornton, Powers Boothe, Joaquin Phoenix, Claire Danes, and Jon Voight. We also mark the anniversary of the births of Denis Villeneuve, Leo McCarey, Gore Vidal, Louis Aragon, Harvey Kurtzman, and the premiere episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show. Today's image comes courtesy of CBS Television and is a publicity photo of Dick Van Dyke from The Dick Van Dyke Show. Please help support us on Patreon. You can also support us directly by visiting our website. Follow us on: YouTubeInstagramFacebookX Do the useful thing, say the courageous thing, contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough.

10/03/2025

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7 min
10/17/2025

Chapter 20, The Final Chapter: On the Shortness of Life, by Seneca the Younger

Today, we read chapter 20, the final chapter, of On the Shortness of Life, by Seneca the Younger. “Some men even prepare for whatever lies after death – a necropolis of tombs, countless public dedications, blazing funeral pyres that can be seen from the stars and ostentatious funerals worthy of demi-gods. But in the end, their funerals were just like their lives – over in a short burst of flames.” Please help support us on Patreon. You can also support us directly by visiting the Giving Page of our website. Follow us on: YouTubeInstagramFacebookX

10/17/2025

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3 min
10/01/2025

An Artist's Almanac for October 1, 2025

These are some of the things humans have managed to do over the years. Today's film came out in 1993, and starred Robert De Niro and Chazz Palminteri. You'll also hear about Clarence Darrow in a story you're guaranteed to have never heard before, before he defended a teacher's right to teach the truth in the Scopes Monkey Trial. Today's cover image comes courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, and is titled Winston and Clementine Churchill Gertrude Bell and T. E. Lawrence in Egypt 1921. The credit is listed only as Official Photographer. Please help support us on Patreon. You can also support us directly by visiting our website. Follow us on: YouTubeInstagramFacebookX Do the useful thing, say the courageous thing, contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough.

10/01/2025

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10 min
09/18/2025

An Artist's Almanac for September 18, 2025

Love more, listen more, stretch more often Please help support us on Patreon.. You can also support us directly by visiting our website. Follow us on: YouTubeInstagramFacebookX

09/18/2025

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6 min
10/30/2025

Chapter 8: Of A Happy Life

Today, we read chapter 8 of, Of A Happy Life, by Seneca the Younger. “A man should be unbiased and not to be conquered by external things” Help support us on Patreon. You can also support us directly by visiting the Giving Page of our website. Follow us on: YouTubeInstagramFacebookX

10/30/2025

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4 min
10/08/2025

Chapter 15: On the Shortness of Life, by Seneca the Younger

Today, we read chapter 15 of On the Shortness of Life, by Seneca the Younger. “These men will show you the way to immortality, and raise you to heights from which no man can be cast down. This is the only way to extend mortality – truly, by transforming time into immortality. Honors, statues and all other mighty monuments to man’s ambition carved in stone will crumble but the wisdom of the past is indestructible." Please help support us on Patreon. You can also support us directly by visiting the Giving Page of our website. Follow us on: YouTubeInstagramFacebookX

10/08/2025

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3 min
10/17/2025

An Artist's Almanac for October 17, 2025

These are some of the things humans have managed to do over the years. Today's film came out in 1986. It stars Tom Cruise, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Helen Shaver, John Turturro, Bill Cobbs, and Paul Newman We mark the anniversaries of the births of Jupiter Hammon, Arthur Miller, Michael McKean, Norm Macdonald, Jesús “Chucho” Reyes Ferreira, and Henri de Saint-Simon. Today's poem is by Jupiter Hammon. Today's image is by Jesús “Chucho” Reyes Ferreira, and is titled, "2 gallos, Firmado". Please help support us on Patreon. You can also support us directly by visiting our website. Follow us on: YouTubeInstagramFacebookX

10/17/2025

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8 min
10/27/2025

An Artist's Almanac for October 27, 2025

These are some of the things humans have managed to do over the years. Today's film came out in 1995, and was directed by Mike Figgis. It stars Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue. We mark the anniversaries of the births of Roberto Benigni, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath, John Cleese, Fran Lebowitz, and commemorate the hanging of Quakers just for being Quakers. Today's image comes courtesy of the Fitzwilliam Museum, and is by Salvator Rosa. It's titled, "Human Fragility." Today's poem is by Dylan Thomas. Please help support us on Patreon. You can also support us directly by visiting our website. Follow us on: YouTubeInstagramFacebookX

10/27/2025

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8 min
10/21/2025

An Artist's Almanac for October 21, 2025

These are some of the things humans have managed to do over the years. Today's film came out in 1984. It stars Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Dennis Quaid, Fred Ward, Barbara Hershey, Kim Stanley, Veronica Cartwright, and Levon Helm. We mark the anniversaries of the births of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Carrie Fisher, Domenichino, Mercy Amba Oduyoye, Volker Halbach, and Magellan discovering the Strait that would bear his name, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, forever altering humankind's trajectory. Today's image comes courtesy of Riccardo Ghilardi, and is a portrait of Carrie Fisher as a member of the 70th jury of the Venice International Film Festival. Please help support us on Patreon. You can also support us directly by visiting our website. Follow us on: YouTubeInstagramFacebookX

10/21/2025

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8 min
10/29/2025

Chapter 7: Of A Happy Life

Today, we read chapter 7 of, Of A Happy Life, by Seneca the Younger. “The highest good is immortal: it knows no ending, and does not admit of either satiety or regret: for a right-thinking mind never alters or becomes hateful to itself, nor do the best things ever undergo any change” Help support us on Patreon. You can also support us directly by visiting the Giving Page of our website. Follow us on: YouTubeInstagramFacebookX

10/29/2025

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