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Jan.27.2012
When I was a child Lewis Carroll ‘s Alice in Wonderland (1865) and L. Frank Baum’s Wizard of Oz (1908) enthralled. These classics told stories of two girls’ travel outside of earthly time, into worlds of myth and allegory. Dorothy’s Oz and Alice’s realm beyond the rabbit hole, were populated by...
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Nov.18.2011
Love is the primal force in the universe. Love is encapsulated in relationships. These may be parent and child, brother and sister, friends, human and animal, male couples, female couples and male and female. Love is sometimes tragic, disjointed and fragmented. American actors, Joanne Woodward and...
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Sep.30.2011
As a writer and cultural historian, I am an obsessive collector of images, ancient and modern. My Mac contains a database of well over 10,000 images. I am fascinated by photos of historical value and iconic cultural significance. Matthew Brady [1822-1896], famed recorder of the Civil War, is...
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May.07.2011
Pepe Romero, arguably the world’s greatest living classical guitarist, often says that the only great music is that performed for free. Spontaneous acts of love and charity embody heart and soul and meaning that is visceral. Unselfconsciously, the Spanish born American guitarist often plays at the...
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Apr.22.2011
Death assumes a finality of something. For us, that would be the body. One assumes from untold thousands of years of observation, the corpse decays. Even the most elaborately preserved Egyptian mummies don’t look great. Jesus is the only one reported to have walked out of a tomb, and one hopes that...
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Blood and Silk transcends a love story and emerges as an incredibly detailed cultural restoration. With an artist's eye, McKay has taken painstaking effort to recreate a cultural window that has been lost for been lost for millennia.”
—Tim Cushing , Lyrcist
About Carol
My husband, Bill McKay, and I live in North Central, Texas on the Diamond A Ranch, Hood County. Grandchildren, cowboys, cattle and dogs are part of our everyday life. Classical and Texas music as well as theater, are part of the fabric of our day-by-day...
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