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February is Black History Month, 美國紀念少數民族對美國的貢獻，所以這個月是美國黑人月，恰好美國一月剛誕生了第一位African American President, Obama和第一夫人Michelle受民眾歡迎之程度在每天的主要電視中都可以看到他們。黑人抬頭了，同事有感而言紐約街頭的黑人因為黑人總統變得有自信也更漂亮了。 語言中心剛好有一齣附近劇院贊助的票:Conversation with A kleagle 劇院很小，是我看過最破舊小劇院，連外百老匯的小劇場都不如 .... 但表演的演員陣容和表達的內涵真的很精彩，最後謝幕的是劇院的負責人，提到紐約不景氣很多小劇院無法經營下去，特別是6ave &13st 這精華地段，建商想要重建並拆掉舊劇院，因此他們的生計有了問題，也希望現場觀眾能捐款幫助他們籌錢打官司讓紐約的劇場文化能保存下來。 回家的地鐵中聽到長笛悠揚的演奏，竟是一位年輕女孩，靠著街頭演藝賺取小費為生，有點悲傷，我也破例的贊助她一元，紐約地鐵乞討或賣藝的方式太多了，我向來不喜歡乞討者，但這樣的生活竟然還能演奏出這樣歡笑的節奏，如同小劇場即將面臨倒閉危機，但演員們仍稱職的演出精采的劇本，覺得很不可思議。感覺能夠在有限的能力範圍下幫助紐約人，也許是另一個神要我來紐約的目的吧~學習慈悲和憐憫。 Conversation with A kleagle (3k-ku klux klan) The play is based on the real story of Civil rights leader Walter Francis White in the late of 1920's, Walter Francis White (July 1, 1893) was a spokesman for blacks in the United States for almost a quarter of a century as executive secretary (1931-1955) of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NAACP. the main content is: http://www.nytheat...

Yesterday, I saw Steive Wonder on TV with President Obabmas His first words in the speech is "Thanks God". When I saw the 81st Academy award ceremony (Oscar), all of them said: Thank you. Thus Steive Wonder makes me curious why a blind man so popular in this country, I check the internet then i found he is a myth, a legend.... {Stevie Wonder (born on May 13, 1950) is an American singer-songwriter , multi-instrumentalist , and record producer . A prominent figure in popular music during the latter half of the 20th century, Wonder has recorded more than thirty US top ten hits, won twenty-two Grammy Awards [2] (a record for a solo artist), plus one for lifetime achievement , won an Academy Award for Best Song , [3] and been inducted into both the Rock and Roll [4] and Songwriters [5] halls of fame. He has also been awarded the Polar Music Prize . [6] Blind from birth, Wonder signed with Motown Records at the age of eleven, and continues to perform and record for the label...

2009.2.20 在迪士尼的遊行中，有一號人物好像很有名但我竟不知道她是誰，問了旁人才知是美國人耳熟能詳的Mary Poppins，the first animated film presented by Disney in 1964. 回來後趕快去百老匯看看這齣有名的音樂劇。 http://disney.go.com/theatre/marypoppins/#/home/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Poppins_(musical ) "Act I The show opens with Bert, a man of many professions, introducing the audience to Cherry Tree Lane (" Chim Chim Cher-ee /Cherry Tree Lane- Part 1"). Number 17 is where the Banks family lives: George and Winifred Banks, their two children Jane and Michael, their cook, Mrs Brill and their odd-job man, Robertson Ay. Things are not going well, for Jane and Michael are out of control and as the show starts, their latest nanny, Katie Nanna, storms out. The children decide to write the advertisement for a new nanny (" The Perfect Nanny "), but George Banks has a very different idea of what constitutes the perfect nanny and he tears up the piece of paper and throws it in the fireplace. Within moments Mary Poppins arrives and...

2.10 Metropolitan museum of art ~Concert Art and Love in Renaissance Italy特展所辦的男聲四重唱 (a capella) " In a program of Renaissance music, which heralded a dramatic new age by casting aside medieval shackles of courtly love and focusing on the joys of requited love, the Orlando Consort will perform works by Ciconia, Brunel, Gombert, Josquin, Compère, Isaac, and others.This concert is presented in conjunction with the exhibition “Art and Love in Renaissance Italy.”The exhibition is made possible by the Gail and Parker Gilbert Fund and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation." 1.31 參觀大都會博物館 大都會博物館最好的地方在於可以自由拍照，且其網站介紹及教育資源也很豐富 如果有技巧的話，還可以很便宜的價格自由參觀喔 不過英國的博物館幾乎都是不收費的~因為搜刮太多屬於別國的東西的了 :) (一) Art and Love in Renaissance Italy November 18, 2008–February 16, 2009 /Special Exhibition Galleries, 2nd floor http://www.metmuseum.org/special/art_love/images.asp "This exhibition explores the various exceptional objects created to celebrate love and marriage in the Italian Renaissance. The approximate...

I saw a movie "Slumdog Millionaire" it is about: Jamal Malik, a penniless eighteen year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, is one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India’s “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” But when the show breaks for the night, suddenly, he is arrested on suspicion of cheating. After all, how could an uneducated street kid possibly know so much? Determined to get to the bottom of Jamal’s story, the jaded Police Inspector spends the night probing Jamal’s incredible past, from his riveting tales of the slums where he and his brother Salim survived by their wits to his hair-raising encounters with local gangs to his heartbreak over Latika, the unforgettable girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of Jamal’s increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show’s seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show? ...

2.3 一早辦公室同事談論著法鼓山聖嚴法師去世消息 談到佛教高人死後都會有舍利子，就醫學角度應該是結石吧 因為對佛教沒什麼接觸一開始不以為意，但上網查了一下他的生平 發現很多觀念和基督教很相似 如: 人間淨土--天國 以教育為本--留下著作 實做的信仰-以身作則 印證了宗教總是一家人-真理只有一個 也就是孔子說的吾道一以貫之 只是每個人信仰的神不一樣 有人一生中追求的主體是物質，金錢，名譽，愛情 有人信靠的是自己 看到一些不錯的觀念: 1虛空有盡，我願無窮 2無事忙中老，空裡有哭笑，本來沒有我，生死皆可拋。 3面對它、接受它、處理它、放下它， 4奉獻和付出，那奉獻是無條件的。這是為新人加持祝賀的聖嚴法師。 5把份內事做好了，就能夠發好願，這個做好事，自己也能夠轉好運。~~這是帶領民眾發願一起做好事的聖嚴法師。 法鼓山的創辦人聖嚴法師自幼體弱多病，13歲就出家，儘管一生顛沛流離，不過憑著對佛法的堅持，還在近40歲時完成他的博士學位，並在亞洲、歐美等地講學弘法，他曾說過「佛法這麼好，知道的人這麼少，誤解的人這麼多。」因著這樣一個單純的信念，在民國78年，聖嚴法師創辦了法鼓山。他常比喻自己是『風雪中的行腳僧」，1998年還曾獲《天下雜誌》遴選為、四百年來對台灣最具影響力的五十位人物之一。 從演藝圈到政界，都有聖嚴法師的信徒，他不只宣揚佛法，也是位教育實踐家，他創立「中華佛學研究所」、「法鼓大學」，這幾年，他也多次與科技、藝術、文化等菁英人士對談，出席各式場合。 聖嚴法師也舉過一個「蜜蜂與金絲雀」例子。聖嚴法師回憶道：「我的師父－東初老人，對我最大的恩惠，不是給我錢，而是給我一個「養蜂」方法，他以培養蜜蜂的方法來培養我這個徒弟。他說：『許多人用養金絲雀的方法來教育兒孫，這樣的兒孫一定不會太好。金絲雀關在籠裡，天天餵牠吃飽喝足，拉下來的東西是不能讓人吃的；但將蜜蜂帶到有花的地方，要牠自己去找蜜，採到蜜之後，還能製成蜂蜜供人食用。』恩師的『養蜂法』，讓我從中學會了自助助人的觀念，迄今依然受益。」蜜蜂採蜜，供人食用，不但養活自己，更養活別人，因此，要建立「人間淨土」，就應該有蜜蜂採蜜的精神，不但造就自己，也完成別人，自助與助人。 聖嚴法師也明白表示，生命教育是現在重要的教改工程，透過生命教育，讓學生明瞭尊重自己也尊重他人，瞭解群我關係及讓學生明白生死觀念，是一件相當重要的工作，然...