Columns & Essays
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Wintery Sunrise
Wintery Sunrise in Maryland - A sublime moment on a quiet winter morning, taken by photojournalist, Maureen Spagnolo
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Venue: One Longfellow Square, Portland ME ~ December 14, 2011 ~
by Kimmy Sophia Brown ~
Dec 26, 2011
I could imagine Emmylou Harris recording any of their songs -- “Forgive Me,” “Hard Time”, “Night Falls”, “Pink Peonies”. Sheila’s songs are passionate and insightful and she conveys them with a voice full of power and emotion. I thought I knew where the melody of a song was headed and then it went somewhere else.
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Holiday Fine Arts Open House at the Maine Coast Artist Studio, Friendship Maine Dec 17, 2011
by Kimmy Sophia Brown ~
Dec 26, 2011
Meteora is a gem of a folk trio, comprised of Will Brown, Jim Loney and Kat Logan. Right off the bat, their main asset is their excellent voices. From the first note of their first song, “Little Brown Bird”,... their three-part harmony moved me to tears.
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Venue: One Longfellow Square, Portland ME ~ November 17, 2011 ~
by Kimmy Sophia Brown ~
Dec 23, 2011
He delivered song after song in tight arrangements with an interesting relay going on between alternating drummers Seth Kearns and Charles C. Gagne, and alternating backup singers, Amanda Gervasi, Monique Barrett, Megan Jo Wilson and Sara Hallie Richardson.
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Venue: One Longfellow Square, Portland ME ~ November 17, 2011 ~ capsule review ~
by Kimmy Sophia Brown ~
Dec 22, 2011
He piqued my interest when he said that during a period of writer’s block, he found an old book of poetry and decided to set some poems to music.
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Venue: One Longfellow Square, Portland ME ~ October 28, 2011 ~ capsule review
by Kimmy Sophia Brown ~
Oct 29, 2011
She seemed at home on the stage, comfortable in her own skin, precise and practiced on the guitar and possessed a voice that can’t be pigeon-holed.
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Venue: One Longfellow Square, Portland ME ~ October 28, 2011 ~
by Kimmy Sophia Brown ~
Oct 29, 2011
The Caravan of Thieves blasted off with “I’m Gonna Eat Ya” (which they could have written for Deborah Harry) and “Love Made a Monster Out of Me”. Then we were swimming in the Talking Heads’, “Psycho Killer”. Adorable lead guy, Fuzz, flirted and cajoled the audience into hissing like snakes and snapping our fingers. Soon, we were all a-snakin’ and a-snappin’!
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Venue: One Longfellow Square, Portland, Maine ~ October 21, 2011 ~ capsule review
by Kimmy Sophia Brown ~
Oct 26, 2011
The music was entrancing, particularly a piece named for the mountain for which it was written, Bai-Taiga. That composition was orchestral in depth and breadth, taking us beyond time and space and nearly inducing us into a shamanic journey.
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A Visit to Psychic Medium, Kat Logan
by Kimmy Sophia Brown ~
Oct 23, 2011
What a lovely woman! The feeling of kindness and sincerity was palpable. We entered the house, which was beautifully arranged with art, plants, musical instruments and a wholesome feeling of care and calm. Tears came to my eyes almost immediately because I felt such a loving and accepting spiritual atmosphere.
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by Kimmy Sophia Brown ~
Oct 22, 2011
There were gigantic hairdryers that made the ladies look like subjects of brain experiments. Their heads, imbedded with goo, curlers and plastic bags, were tucked beneath the armadillo underbellies of the roaring dryers.
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Venue: One Longfellow Square, Portland, ME ~ July 14, 2011 ~
by Kimmy Sophia Brown ~
Aug 2, 2011
I was swept away from the first note and heard myself let out a big sigh after the first song. The tension was leaving me and I was all ears and heart, awaiting the onslaught of more beauty.
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From the Editors
 We're actively looking for volunteer contributing editors and writers to help build the Significato Journal to its next stage. Contact us for more info.
Kim has been busy writing MusicViews columns and poetry. She reviews live music performed at One Longfellow Square, as well as other venues, and CDs.
 Peter has just finished his very first short film, based on his short story, "The Epiphany of Zebediah Clump".
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A Parliament of Quotes
Taken from "Anatomy of the Spirit" by Caroline Myss
We contain the scripture. We contain Divinity. We are Divinity. We are the church, the synagogue, the ashram.
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Mo' Bliss
I love the depiction of daily life in this movie too. The homely scenes at tea, with the family seated around the table eating slices of homemade bread from china plates and drinking their tea from china cups...
On December 29th, 2011, at 4:15pm Eastern Standard Time, in the city of Portland, Maine, I looked at a FedEx receipt that I had just been handed, and couldn’t decide whether I wanted to jump up and down in the Kinko’s store, or go immediately to bed.
Have you backed up your data recently? No? Aha! :-). You're not alone, unfortunately. But... don't you want to join the ranks of the Fortunate Few who DO back up their data? Here are two very quick ways to do just that.
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Help the World
I had the joy of meeting people - women, and men - who care deeply about women victims of war - enough to take the time to meet on the Duke Ellington Bridge on a cool, cloudy day, and holdup placards, and talk to passers-by about the need to care, and help.
The devastation of the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on March 11, 2011 has left many of us wanting to help but feeling confused about how to do so.
There is no talking, no singing, no laughing and often prisoners are forced to stay in one physical position for many hours at a time without relief. Besides that they suffer with filthy blankets, tiny rations of only corn with salty soup to eat, filthy clothing, filthy sewage conditions, no heat in the winter, blistering heat in the summer and nineteen hour work days as a slave labor force in government owned factories.
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Stories & Poetry
Dec 30, 2011
Our first film, "The Epiphany of Zebediah Clump", has been completed and submitted to the Seattle International Film Festival.
by Peter Falkenberg Brown ~
Jul 5, 2011
Zebediah Clump was doomed. Knowing this, his interest in life had taken a sharp left turn into the toilet of resentful destiny. All that was good was flushed away. He had never been a happy man. Aging, overweight and bald, Zebediah had spent decades drinking from a glass that was half empty. Every bird dropping that fell on his fine new automobile convinced him that Chicken Little was a depressingly prescient bird of death.
by Grace Brown ~
Mar 23, 2011
'I want to live by the sea'
said I.
Where the air breathes full.
A gentle rebirth
every moment.
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Feel good about life
and feed your soul some vittles...
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from the columns and essays of Significato.
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Transport your soul...
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by curling up with a short story or poem.
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Increase your bliss and nourish your soul...
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with tidbits on nature, music, books, films, health and writings from bygone days.
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Feel good about life by helping the world...
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What's New
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by Peter Falkenberg Brown ~
Jan 8, 2012
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by Peter Falkenberg Brown ~
Jan 7, 2012
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by Kimmy Sophia Brown ~
Dec 26, 2011
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by Kimmy Sophia Brown ~
Dec 26, 2011
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by Kimmy Sophia Brown ~
Dec 23, 2011
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by Kimmy Sophia Brown ~
Dec 22, 2011
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