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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 01/04/2026
/r/buddhism: 🙃 "CR Lama told me that the best practitioners of dharma are somewhat simple and stupid. Their minds are not busy all the time. They don't have a sense of mastery, or feel that they have to be in charge, and so they just do the practice. from D.T. Suziki's 'Buddha of Infinite Light':
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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 04/03/2026
Some of the new Hubble observations show the Cat’s Eye Nebula, also known as NGC 6543, in the finest detail ever seen. The nebula lies some 4,400 light-years away from Earth.
Some of the new Hubble observations show the Cat’s Eye Nebula, also known as NGC 6543, in the finest detail ever seen. The nebula lies some 4,400 light-years away from Earth.
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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 28/02/2026
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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 24/02/2026
I asked James Drew once why he wrote music. He sat there for a few minutes sipping a beer, as he always did at our lessons, and then said, "Jeff, there is an enormous, invisible order to this world. Music serves to glorify that order and is the greatest gift any human can give back to the world." 🫠
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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 16/02/2026
if you are anywhere near remotely involved in ending this deportation crisis, you need to read this gracious and poetic thank you note:
Peaceful Observers
To Our Beloved Guardian Angels,
In these times of profound trial, when darkness sought to engulf our community, you emerged as trembled of unwavering light. When fear gripped our hearts and the very fabric of our existence beacons under the shadow of masked agents-when we were hunted, chased, and made to feel as strangers in the place we call home- you stood tall You stood with us.
With courage that defied the chill of winter winds and compassion that warmed the coldest nights, you became our shield. You left the comfort of your daily lives, your workplaces, your routines, to stand guard at our doors. You brought us the gift of warning-the loud sirens that pierced the silence of impending danger, grving us precious moments to seek shelter, to protect our children, to preserve our dignity.
You did not merely observe; you acted. You confronted hatred face-to-face. You stood between us and the agents of fear, becoming the voice for the voiceless, the strength for the weary, and the hope for the hopeless. In your presence, we found sanctuary. In your resolve, we found resilience.
Your bravery is a testament to the boundless capacity of the human spirit. You stood against the tides of xenophobia, Islamophobia, and every form of prejudice that seeks to divide humanity. You embodied the highest ideals of human dignity, honor, and solidarity. You reminded us-and the world-that America's true strength lies in its embrace of those who seek refuge, its promise of freedom, and its unwavering stand for justice.
Your sacrifice will echo through generations. We will tell our children, and they will tell theirs, of the guardian angels who stood tall when hate knocked at our doors. Your legacy is etched in the heart of our community-a living history of compassion without limits, courage without borders.
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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 15/02/2026
Gorgeous new image of the Egg Nebula, with the earlier Hubble image, a very young preplanetary nebula, a structure of gas and dust created as a Sun-like star approaches the end of its life. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_Neb...
This newly processed image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is the clearest view yet of the Egg Nebula. It is a preplanetary nebula, a structure of gas and dust created as a Sun-like star approaches the end of its life. The Egg that we see now will eventually hatch, revealing a white dwarf at its centre and leaving its shell to become a spectacular planetary nebula.Many preplanetary nebulae are relatively dim and hard to spot. They are made of layers of gas ejected by the star, but that star is not yet hot enough to ionise the gas and cause it to glow. The Egg Nebula is relatively unique, easily visible as a sparkling jewelled egg in space. Powerful beams of starlight blast out of the inner cloud, two a-side, giving a breathtaking illumination to this cosmic structure. Fast-moving outflows of hot molecular hydrogen also emerge from within the dust cloud, visible just at the base of the searchlight beams. These outflows glow with infrared light, which is shown in this image by orange highlights.The central cloud of dust is surrounded by concentric rings, themselves made up from thin, faint arcs of gas. These were created by successive outbursts from the central star, which ejected a little more material from its outer surface every few hundred years. The beams of starlight are reflected by these layers of gas, creating an appearance like ripples on the surface of water. The way that gas molecules reflect and scatter light gives a bluish colour to the arcs. The reflected starlight reveals important details about the central star, which is impossible to view directly in its dusty shell.[Image description: In the centre an opaque cloud of grey gas hides a star. Two strong beams of light from the star emerge from large holes in both sides of the cloud. The central cloud is surrounded by concentric, wispy shells of gas, illuminated by the star’s light. The shells reflect extra light where they’re hit by the twin beams. A crowd of smaller stars with cross-shaped sp…Image produced from exposures in visible and infrared light from Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3
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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 12/02/2026
new piano music, written in 2022 available: piano preludes, #24, 25: Piano Prelude No.24 imslp.org/wiki/Piano_P... Piano Prelude No.25 imslp.org/wiki/Piano_P... New recording: Piano Prelude No.25 soundcloud.com/jeff_harring...
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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 08/02/2026
Thomas Merton's letter to a young activist: 'Do not depend on the hope of results... concentrate not on the results but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself.' jimandnancyforest.com/2014/10/mert...
And then this: do not depend on the hope of results. When you are doing the sort of work you have taken on, essentially an apostolic work, you may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea you start more and more to concentrate not on the results but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself. And there too a great deal has to be gone through, as gradually you struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for specific people. The range tends to narrow down, but it gets much more real. In the end, as you yourself mention in passing, it is the reality of personal relationships that saves everything.
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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 04/02/2026
A line of baby stars follow a shock wave, inter-galactic consequences of the first confirmed rogue supermassive black hole, probably ejected during a galactic merger. youtu.be/2imlUyTyJD4
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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 18/01/2026
revising my ittle song for sop. and sq, El aire se serena, that i wrote for a 1986 tulane req. but was never ultimately premiered. a setting of a 16th c. spanish religious poem celebrating a musician. A Francisco Salinas by Fray Luis de León Original text: www.poesi.as/fll03.htm
ODE TO FRANCISCO SALINAS

To Francisco Salinas

Catedrático de Música de la Universidad de Salamanca

The air becomes serene
and is clothed in beauty and strange radiance,
Salinas, when there sounds
the incomparable music
governed by your skilled hand.

At that heavenly sound
my soul, that is sunk in forgetfulness,
recovers its judgement
and the lost memory
of its first, exalted origin.

And as it knows itself,
it improves its fate and thought;
it disdains the gold
that the blind multitude worships,
and perishable, deceitful beauty.

It traverses the ether
until it reaches the highest sphere,
and there it hears another mode
of imperishable
music, the first, the source of all.It sees how the Great Master,
playing this immense cither,
with skilled movement
produces the sacred sound
by wich this eternal temple is sustained.

And as it is composed
of concordant numbers, it emits
a consonant response,
and from their vying
is mingled the sweetest harmony.

Here the soul steers
through a sea of sweetness, and at last
sinks so deep within,
that it hears or feels
no strange or rare event.

O blessed trance!
O death that gives life! O sweet oblivion!
Could I but remain in your repose
without being restored
ever to these low and abject senses!

To this bliss I call you
glory of Apollo's sacred choir,
friends whom I love
beyond all treasure,
since all visible things are sorrowful tears.

Oh, may your music, Salinas,
sound everlastingly in my ears;
hearing it, my senses
awaken to God's goodness,
and to all else remain oblivious.
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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 14/01/2026
toad sits in water surrounded by hopeful vocalizations... 😎
toad sits in water surrounded by hopeful vocalizations...
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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 06/01/2026
RIP Bela Tarr, w/an extraordinary clarification: “My opinion is that we were doing comedies. You can laugh a lot. I only ask this, how did you feel when you came out of the movie theatre after watching my film? Did you feel stronger or weaker? That’s the main question. I want you to be stronger."
“My opinion is that we were doing comedies. You can laugh a lot.” He added that they were not pessimistic. “I only ask this – how did you feel when you came out of the movie theatre after watching my film? Did you feel stronger or weaker? That’s the main question. I want you to be stronger.”
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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 05/01/2026
Our wedding photograph, 44 years ago, badly xerox'ed, taken in a Royal St. video arcade photobooth. When you move by Greyhound it's amazing anything gets kept...
Our wedding photograph, 43 years ago, badly xerox'ed, taken in a Royal St. video arcade photobooth. When you move by Greyhound it's amazing anything gets kept...
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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 05/01/2026
Been a busy few days of birthdays, holidays, and anniversaries: We celebrated 44 years of marriage yesterday! Rome restaurant menu gazing w/Elsie in 2005?
Rome restaurant menu gazing w/Elsie in 2005?
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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 01/01/2026
Better shot of this very brave man:
Tehran protester stops a police motorcycle column.
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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 01/01/2026
In the first subtype, patients had high levels of sNfL early on in the disease, with visible damage in a part of the brain called the corpus callosum. They also developed brain lesions quickly. This type appears to be more aggressive and active, scientists said.
In the first subtype, patients had high levels of sNfL early on in the disease, with visible damage in a part of the brain called the corpus callosum. They also developed brain lesions quickly. This type appears to be more aggressive and active, scientists said.

In the second subtype, patients showed brain shrinkage in areas like the limbic cortex and deep grey matter before sNfL levels went up. This type seems to be slower, with overt damage occurring later.
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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 31/12/2025
A video of a protester sitting in the street and facing down police on motorbikes during demonstrations that erupted in Tehran in recent days has gone viral on social media, with some observers calling it Iran's "Tiananmen moment". france24 report: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCyq...
A video of a protester sitting in the street and facing down police on motorbikes during demonstrations that erupted in Tehran in recent days has gone viral on social media, with some observers calling it Iran's "Tiananmen moment". Protesters including shopkeepers and university students have been rallying against
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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 31/12/2025
biggest crowds yet with a new sense of hopeful urgency as the buddhist walk for peace arrives in decatur, georgia. they hope to reach the white house 2/13. local news report: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvja...
biggest crowds yet in the buddhist walk for peace in decatur, georgia.
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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 21/12/2025
Nazaré - Lucas Chumbo surfs the mountain while his jetski partner marvels: youtu.be/-R1bDoKWjsM?...
Nazaré - Lucas Chumbo surfs the mountain
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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 20/12/2025
The #1 movie from when you were 10 is how your 2026 is going to go... 🫣
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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 20/12/2025
Boy in a window looks at the snow
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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 19/12/2025
Weird way to find your Brass Quintet, used as an example of transposing instruments in a Brazilian harmony textbook:😎
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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 19/12/2025
Citizen who presented legal proof transferred to LA deportation camp: Born in 2003 in Prince George’s County, MD. “It was very random,” Slatton said. “I don’t see any reason why they would have been targeting her, except she was speaking Spanish. Slatton was blunt: “She does not present as White.”
born in 2003 in Prince George’s County. Today, instead of preparing for Christmas with her family, she is being held inside an ICE detention facility in Louisiana, 1,200 miles away from the hospital where she entered the world as an American citizen.
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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 18/12/2025
More silliness: www.youtube.com/watch?v=W23u...
waterbird landing very ungracefully:
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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 14/12/2025
Chinese concentration camp:
Chinese concentration camp
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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 12/12/2025
Red sprites seen from the ISS: Transient Luminous Events (TLEs) are colorful, high-altitude flashes of light that occur above thunderstorms, often mistaken for lightning but happening higher in the atmosphere. These events include various types like red "sprites," blue "jets".
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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 10/12/2025
Another photo entry titled 'Baptism of the Unwilling Convert' PHOTO: Grayson Bell/Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards
Another photo entry titled 'Baptism of the Unwilling Convert' PHOTO: Grayson Bell/Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards
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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 10/12/2025
The winning image at the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards by British photographer Mark Meth-Cohn: His photo, which is named 'High Five', features a shot of a "young gorilla cavorting through a forest clearing."
BRITISH PHOTOGRAPHER MARK METH-COHN WON THE ACCOLADE FOR HIS PHOTO, WHICH WAS TAKEN IN RWANDA EARLIER THIS YEAR
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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 08/12/2025
Another attempted abduction of US citizens. Before risking this atrocious lawlessness BP and ICE need to get warrants!
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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 08/12/2025
Crafting your own narrative in a way that benefits the re-tellability of said narrative and your hoped for consequences from its re-telling: '...you have to tell a story so clear, so concise, so memorable and evocative that people can repeat it for you even after you’ve left the room.'
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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 06/12/2025
“To clarify, I did roll down my window the moment they pulled me over, and any claim saying that I refused to do so is completely false. In the video of the incident, you can clearly see my windows rolled down as they opened my door, which further proves that I complied from the start.”
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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 06/12/2025
Actual facial recog output:
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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 06/12/2025
She refused to cooperate w/unlawful orders and for that she was pulled out of her car and abused.
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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 03/12/2025
'...shaking a few pitiful drops on the flames. It’s sad how little it accomplishes. The forest just crackles in response, louder each time. From the shadows, the big animals, the ones who supposedly matter, the elephant, the tiger, the bear, watch like jaded spectators. They heckle. They lecture.'
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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 03/12/2025
Now at thy hands, great CHAOS! are restored The brief and foolish pleasures of the bored: The pompous novelty, the well-hyp’d trick Delivered in the merest Augenblick.
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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 03/12/2025
FWIW, our alien head stamp, here reproduced in a Japanese mail art poster:
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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 03/12/2025
Speaking of theatrical influencing... lol... if society decides to erase your contributions - there's always its echoing consequences and influences.🙄 Art World Parody: Charles Ludlam's "Le Bourgeois Avant-Garde" and Robert Hughes' "The Sohoiad" artinfiction.wordpress.com/2015/06/27/r...
Charles Ludlam's "Le Bourgeois Avant-Garde" in the Village VoiceThe Sohoiad - see url:The Sohoiad - see url:
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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 03/12/2025
They're going after our voter rolls now, why? #fightfordemocracy
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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 01/12/2025
From an osprey doc, lucky catch. but how??
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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 29/11/2025
Elsie insisted I post this too cool pic of 17 y.o. me in '72 at Four Corners, on a cross country camping trip.
too cool pic of 17 y.o. me in '72 at Four Corners, on a cross country camping trip.
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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 29/11/2025
Chetro Ketl in Chaco Canyon (New Mexico, United States); shown is the complex's great kiva.
An image of the ruins of Chetro Ketl in Chaco Canyon (New Mexico, United States); shown is the complex's great kiva.
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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 28/11/2025
old Hubble pic of the butterfly nebula:
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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 23/11/2025
Fin-wigglin,' a behavior dolphins only demo in front of mirrors. They look in the mirror, stretch and wiggle their flippers slightly, back and forth, comically. Looks to me like a caricature of a human w/hands! 🙃
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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 19/11/2025
Birds in silhouette on Sanibel Island, 2009, from the fishing pier:
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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 17/11/2025
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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 17/11/2025
The buttetfly effect under surveillance...🫣 Every monarch seems to have a different path and destination:
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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 16/11/2025
Bringing weapons on church grounds to enforce misdemeanor immigration law is really historically bad. 'Trump administration’s decision to rescind the sensitive locations policy, raises questions as to whether the incident violated a judge’s injunction in their case.'
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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 15/11/2025
These faith leaders are not breaking the law!
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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 15/11/2025
Almost all her CD's have been uploaded: 😎 archive.org/search?query...
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Jeff Harrington @parnasse.com · 13/11/2025
Seminary silliness 1982... www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
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