House exterior

The Ashram's Progress

Well, we've been in about a month now.

Interior slideshow of the progress...

The New House

Here's a before and after (still a work in progress...) pic of the living room to the new place. The big furniture is being moved tomorrow... Everything here was hauled in the back of a Ford Focus & a Honda CRV !

"Hoodoo" performed by the kids at Prelude Chamber Music Camp

June 19, 2009: Vernon Humbert conducts the Camp's PRIMO ORCHESTRA in the first ever performance of Hoodoo -- Great job, especially considering that the mostly middle and high school students played this after only 3-4 brief rehearsals, on top of all their other camp activities!

Beginner's Guide to XHTML (ne HTML)

The brief (but pretty thorough, imho) introduction to basic HTML coding is available online: Ed's Guide to Beginning XHTML. It's a free online tutorial that at least can get you started (if anybody's still interested with all th wysiwyg page builders available...) The thing is, most of the page builders will let you edit the html code so you can include things they don't have buttons for. If you know how. Although it dates from a 2003 workshop for Jacksonville Public Library staff, the coding information is still current (despite some side references to Netscape browsers and IE6).
https://sites.google.com/site/edswebref/

• • Beginner's Guide to HTML

• Basic Tags for Text Markup
• Character Entity References
• Core Attributes
• CSS Reference
• HTML Root Elements
• Link and Image Tags
• Tables & Lists
• Web Page Template

An English translation & versification of Théophile Gautier's 'Absence,' from Berlioz's "Les nuits d'ete"

CLICK HERE for the entire set of six poems

Revisions to the original translation (below) will be found at the above link.

IV. Absence Reviens, reviens, ma bien-aimée! Comme une fleur loin du soleil, La fleur de ma vie est fermée Loin de ton sourire vermeil. Entre nos coeurs quelle distance! Tant d'espace entre nos baisers! Ô sort amer! ô dure absence! Ô grands désirs inapaisés! Reviens, reviens, ma bien-aimée! Comme une fleur loin du soleil, La fleur de ma vie est fermée Loin de ton sourire vermeil. D'ici 1à-bas, que de campagnes, Que de villes et de hameaux, Que de vallons et de montagnes, A lasser le pied des chevaux! Reviens, reviens, ma bien-aimée! Comme une fleur loin du soleil, La fleur de ma vie est fermée Loin de ton sourire vermeil.

IV. Absence Return, return, my own belovéd! As closes the sun-lorn posy, Thus has my life's flower been closéd Sans thy smiling lips, e'er rosy. CONTINUED HERE

English translation/versification of Théophile Gautier's 'Sur les Lagunes' (from Berlioz's 'Les nuits d'été')

CLICK HERE for the entire set of six poems

One more translation to go after this one; the other four already finished are here and here. English version ©2009, E. Lein (please notify and credit if quoting)

III. Sur les lagunes. Lamento	III. On the Lagoons. Lament.
Ma belle amie est morte: Je pleurerai toujours; Sous la tombe elle emporte Mon âme et mes amours. Dans le ciel, sans m'attendre Elle s'en retourna; L'ange qui l'emmena Ne voulut pas me prendre.       Que mon sort est amer!       Ah! sans amour,             s'en aller sur la mer!	My belovéd is dead: Evermore will I weep; Within her graveyard bed My soul, my love she’ll keep. Heav’n-bound without me, she Hath there return’d once more; But th' angel who her bore, Alas, would not bear me.       My bitter destiny!       Ah! Without love,             to go once more to sea!
La blanche créature Est couchée au cerceuil. Comme dans la nature Tout me paraît en deuil! La colombe oubliée Pleure et songe à l'absent; Mon âme pleure et sent Qu'elle est dépareillée.       Que mon sort est amer!       Ah! sans amour,             s'en aller sur la mer!	CONTINUED HERE
Sur moi la nuit immense S'étend comme un linceul; Je chante ma romance Que le ciel entend seul. Ah! comme elle était belle Et comme je l'aimais! Je n'aimerai jamais Une femme autant qu'elle.       Que mon sort est amer!       Ah! sans amour,             s'en aller sur la mer!