The story starts on Christmas eve. Nora makes preparation for Christmas. While she eats macaroons, Dr. Rank and Mrs. Linde enters. Rank goes to speak with Torvald while Linde speaks with Nora. Linde explains that her husband has died and that she needs to find a job. Nora agrees to ask her husband to give Linde a job at the bank. Nora tells her about borrowing money to pay for the trip to Italy for her and her husband. She explains that Torvald doesnt know that she paid for it. Rank leaves the study and begins to speak with Nora and Linde. He complains about the moral corruption in society. Krogstad arrives and goes to the study to talk to Torvald about keeping his job. A few minutes later, he leaves and Rank comments that Krogstad is one of the most morally corrupt people in the world. Rank and Linde leaves and Krogstad reenters. He tells Nora to ask her husband to keep Krogstad, or else he will reveal Noras crime of forgery. Krogstad leaves and when Torvald reenters, Nora asks him not to fire Krogstad. Torvald says that he must fire him because of his dishonesty and because he gave Krogstads job to Linde. Torvald returns to his study. The Nurse, Anne-Marie, enters and gives Nora her ball gown. Anne-Marie explains that she had to leave her children to take the job taking care of Nora. Anne-Marie leaves. Linde returns and begins to help Nora with stitching up her dress. They talk for a while about Dr. Rank. Torvald enters and Linde leaves to the nursery. Nora asks Torvald again not to fire Krogstad and Torvald refuses. He gives Krogstads pink slip to the maid to be mailed to Krogstad. Torvald leaves to his study. Rank enters and tells Nora about his worsening illness. They talk and flirt for a while. Rank tells Nora that he loves her. Nora said that she never loved Rank and only had fun with him. Rank leaves to the study and Krogstad enters. He is angry about his dismissal and leaves a letter to Torvald explaining Noras entire crime in the letter box. Nora is frightened. Nora tells Linde about the matter and Linde assures her that she will talk to Krogstad and set things straight. Linde leaves after Krogstad and Rank and Torvald enter from the study. They help Nora practice the tarantella. After practice, Rank and Torvald exists. Linde enters and tells Nora that Krogstad left town, but she left a note for him. Nora tells her that shes waiting for a miracle to happen. That night, during the dance, Linde talks to Krogstad in Helmers apartment. She explains to him that she left him for money, but that she still loves him. They get back together and Krogstad decides to forget about the whole matter of Noras borrowing money. However, Linde asks Krogstad not to ask for his letter back since she thinks Torvald needs to know of it. Both leave and Torvald and Nora enter from the dance. Torvald checks his letter box and finds some letters and two Business cards from Dr. Rank with black crosses on them. Nora explains that they mean that Rank is announcing his death. After the bad news, Torvald enters his study and Nora prepares to leave. However, before she can get out the door, she is stopped by Torvald who read Krogstads letter. He is angry and disavows his love for Nora. The maid comes with a letter. Torvald read the letter which is from Krogstad. It says that he forgives Nora of her crime and will not reveal it. Torvald burns the letter along with the IOU that came with it. He is happy and tells Nora that everything will return to normal. Nora changes and returns to talk with Helmer. She tells him that they dont understand each other and she leaves him.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Sunday, January 24, 2010
St. Damien of Molokai by David Hart
St. Damien of Molokai
Feastday: October 11
1889
The Leper Priest, the Hero of Molokai. Born in Tremelo, Belgium, on January 3, 1840, he joined the Sacred Hearts Fathers in 1860. He was bom Joseph and received the name Damien in religious life. In 1864, he was sent to Honolulu, Hawaii, where he Was ordained. For the next nine years he worked in missions on the big island, Hawaii. In 1873, he went to the leper colony on Molokai, after volunteering for the assignment. Damien cared for lepers of all ages, but was particularly concerned about the children segregated in the colony. He announced he was a leper in 1885 and continued to build hospitals, clinics, and churches, and some six hundred coffins. He died on April 15 , on Molokai. Slandered by a Protestant minister, Mr. Hyde, Damien was defended by Robert Louis Stevenson, who wrote an impassioned defense of Damien in 1905. He was declared venerable in 1977. Pope John Paul II declared him beatified on June 4, 1995.
On February 21, 2009, the Vatican announced that Father Damien would be canonized. The ceremony took place in Rome on October 11, 2009, in the presence of King Albert II of the Belgians and Queen Paola as well as the Belgian Prime Minister and several cabinet ministers, completing the process of canonization.
"Not without fear and loathing," Pope Benedict underlined, "Father Damian made the choice to go on the island of Molokai in the service of lepers who were there, abandoned by all. So he exposed himself to the disease of which they suffered. With them he felt at home. The servant of the Word became a suffering servant, leper with the lepers, during the last four years of his life."
He continued, "To follow Christ, Father Damian not only left his homeland, but has also staked his health so he, as the word of Jesus announced in today's Gospel tells us, received eternal life."
The figure of Father Damian, Benedict XVI added, "teaches us to choose the good fight not those that lead to division, but those that gather us together in unity."
Damien's symbols are a tree and a dove. In Saint Damien's role as the unofficial patron of those with HIV and AIDS, the world's only Roman Catholic memorial chapel to those who have died of this disease, at the Église Saint-Pierre-Apôtre in Montreal, Quebec, is consecrated to him.
Харт,âm nhạc, thi ca,, nghệ thuật, thú vật,العزف على البيانو ، والموسيقى والشعر والفن ، والحيوانات ،,klavír, hudba, poezie, umění, zvířata,鋼琴，音樂，詩歌，藝術，動物， cerddoriaeth, barddoniaeth, celf, anifeiliaid,פסנתר, מוזיקה, שירה, אמנות, בעלי חיים,ピアノ、音楽、詩、芸術、動物、
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Archangel Gabriel's Pen -- a piano composition by David Hart, American Pianist/Composer
Archangel Gabriel
Meaning of Name: God Is my strength
Message to the Contemporary World: True liberation comes not by surrendering to either humans or machines, but to the Divine Order of the universe.
Patron Angel Of: Writers, orators, philosophers, theologians, actors, poets, physicists, computer geeks, bloggers, entrepreneurs, life coaches, motivational speakers.
Usually Arrives in Your Life: When you begin to question your place in Gods Great Equation and want to take a conscious role in fulfilling your lifes purpose.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
English to Serbian translation
"А"
И сада сам стар
Први се родио
У клан мога оца
Дан и светло
Земљу и небо
ове душе
Давид је тај човек.
Планине Представити
Моје мале величине. Овај човек Дејвид
је човек који воли мир.
"A"
I sada sam star
Prvi se rodio
U klan moga oca
Dan i svetlo
Zemlju i nebo
ove duše
David Je taJ čovek.
Planine Predstaviti
MoJe male veličine. OvaJ čovek DeJvid
Je čovek koJi voli mir.
谁是一个爱好和平的人。
“与”
我现在老
作为第一个出生
在我父亲的家族
日和轻
地球与天空
这个灵魂
大卫，这个人是。
山区划定
我的小尺寸。这个人大卫
谁是一个爱好和平的人。
“yǔ”
wǒ xiàn zài lǎo
zuò wéi dì yī gè chū shēng
zài wǒ fù qīn de jiā zú
rì hé qīng
dì qiú yǔ tiān kōng
zhè ge líng hún
dà wèi， zhè ge rén shì。
shān qū huà dìng
wǒ de xiǎo chǐ cùn。zhè ge rén dà wèi
shuí shì yī gè ài hào hé píng de rén。
"Of Sights and Scents" A Poem by David Hart
A distinguished pair of spectacles,
selfless and serene,
doze snuggly atop a
Proud bureau of
drawers.
A placid fireplace
yawns and winks
As giggling embers
tango on tiptoes with
Lilliputian logs,
haughtily cackling
a cacaphonous tune.
Outside a stoic mist
galumphs betwixt gregarious
shrubs and egotistical stars
Dewy eyed and squinting,
windows, aching and arched,
peep out--
Out to the blaring beams
from a crochety moon afar
A pensive pair of spectacles
ruminates on sights
Carefully seen--
Of frugal birds and
courteous walkways
And terraces splendid and keen
Now a scent of myrrh
caresses the room
A pillow of mist
blushing, blows kisses
to
A muzzy moon
dhart2002USA (this version published in the Taj Mahal Review Dec
2003)
A já jsem teď stará
A já jsem teď stará
Být první narozený
Podle mého otce klan
Den a světlo
Země a nebe
tato duše
Davide, to je člověk.
Hory vymezení
Moje malé velikosti. Tento muž David
Muž, který je miluje mír.
