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Geri Seiberling

@geriwithetc.bsky.social

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When pricked, I immediately bleed either Beethoven or Brubeck, and not necessarily in that order. For over 35 years, I work by Design for the love of Design. Really wanted to be a physicist when I grew up, but I am too easily distrac

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Geri Seiberling @geriwithetc.bsky.social · 19h

Mother Nature models drastic transformation with patience. She shows us how beautiful it is to let go. She reminds us to watch for new beginnings in every ending. She teaches us that those most resilient to change will evolve stronger and better fit for the future. Embrace the beauty.

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Geri Seiberling @geriwithetc.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Birthday Franz Liszt
Oct 22, 1811 – Jul 31, 1886

Hard to imagine anyone going gaga over this face, isn't it? Liszt was Elvis before Elvis was Elvis. The hysteria was called Lisztomania.

Cartoons taught me to appreciate classical music.

youtube.com/watch?v=QpEf...
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2

Geri Seiberling @geriwithetc.bsky.social · 3d

beautiful!

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Geri Seiberling @geriwithetc.bsky.social · 3d

Happy Birthday John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie
Oct 21, 1917 - Jan 6, 1993

Dizzy's horn was bent on accident right before he was to go onstage. A comedy dance team had stepped on it. Dizzy went on to play the horn AS IS. His trumpet became his trademark, & the horn’s unique sound became his BRAND.

Geri Seiberling @geriwithetc.bsky.social · 3d

So we gotta make this one count.

Geri Seiberling @geriwithetc.bsky.social · 4d

Of course the Charlotte Symphony should have a sonic logo. Perfect. www.npr.org/2025/10/20/n...

A new short sound logo for the Charlotte symphony

The Charlotte Symphony decided it wants a sonic logo, so it got a composer to write a seven-second piece of music for the orchestra.

www.npr.org

Geri Seiberling @geriwithetc.bsky.social · 4d

Growth = Change. If something is alive, it grows, and growth REQUIRES change. Other people should be able to notice the difference.

Geri Seiberling @geriwithetc.bsky.social · 5d

My baby burning bush is showing off.

Earth’s crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God;
But only he who sees, takes off his shoes,
The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries,
And daub their natural faces unaware

From Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Geri Seiberling @geriwithetc.bsky.social · 5d

Happy 88th Birthday Peter Max Finkelstein, aka, #PeterMax
October 19, 1937 -

And I am old to enough to have been there when it all went down. Peace baby.

Geri Seiberling @geriwithetc.bsky.social · 8d

"I was a gangster before I met Jesus and now I am just a redeemed sinner with gangster proclivities." Cornel West

Geri Seiberling @geriwithetc.bsky.social · 8d

Happy Birthday Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, aka, Oscar Wilde
October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900

"Either that wallpaper goes, or I do."
(As he lay dying in Paris.)

Ever hated anything quite this much?

Geri Seiberling @geriwithetc.bsky.social · 8d

See things differently.

Happy Birthday Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900

"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If she did, she would cease to be an artist."

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Shantha Mohan, Ph.D., DTM @shlead.bsky.social · 9d

“There is no passion to be found playing small, in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”
- Nelson Mandela.

#ColorADay #Redwed

#dailyflowers 🌱
#flowerreport
#bloomscrolling

Close-up of a red dahlia.

Camera: iPhone 15 Pro.

Octobe 2025.

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Geri Seiberling @geriwithetc.bsky.social · 9d

HB Virgil
Oct 15, 70 BC – Sep 21, 19 BC

From Georgic:
"Sed fugit interea,
tempus fugit irreparabile,
dum singula
amore capti circumvectamur"

Roughly translated:
But time is lost, & will never renew
while we wander around the earth
captive to the distraction of things we love.

tinyurl.com/44f7cuse

Geri Seiberling @geriwithetc.bsky.social · 9d

Happy Birthday Friedrich #Nietzsche
October 15, 1844 - August 25, 1900

We have #ART so that we shall not die of REALITY.

Geri Seiberling @geriwithetc.bsky.social · 9d

Just FYI- just in case you need it. The official color of October!

Geri Seiberling @geriwithetc.bsky.social · 10d

Happy Birthday Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau
October 14, 1801 – 15 September 15, 1883, Belgian physicist and mathematician. He was one of the first people to demonstrate the illusion of a moving image, and the inventor of the phenakistiscope.

archive.org/details/gijh...

1832 JOSEPH ANTOINE FERDINAND PLATEAU : THE HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY OF CINEMATOGRAPHY : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

1832 THE PHENAKISTISCOPE JOSEPH ANTOINE FERDINAND PLATEAU (1801-1883) Plateau constructs what he called a ‘Phenakistoscope’ (or Phenakistiscope). It...

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Geri Seiberling @geriwithetc.bsky.social · 10d

Happy Birthday E.E. Cummings
October 14, 1894 - September 3, 1962
"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."

Geri Seiberling @geriwithetc.bsky.social · 10d

It's #NationalDessertDay. Here's a dessert that has no calories. You just look at it. Not sure I like that. But I LOVE this painting.

Wayne Thiebaud
Cut Meringues 1961
moma.org/collection/w...

Wayne Thiebaud. Cut Meringues. 1961 | MoMA

Wayne Thiebaud. Cut Meringues. 1961. Oil on canvas. 16 x 20" (40.6 x 50.6 cm). Larry Aldrich Foundation Fund. 122.1962. Painting & Sculpture

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Geri Seiberling @geriwithetc.bsky.social · 10d

The way we think about things is very important. Small Business is moving at the speed of light. If you know your trajectory, you'll land in your corner of the universe. You don't have to know all the answers. Just where you want to go. Once you know that, you'll find a way. What might be possible?

Geri Seiberling @geriwithetc.bsky.social · 11d

Happy Birthday E.E. Cummings.

October 14, 1894 - September 3, 1962

Geri Seiberling @geriwithetc.bsky.social · 13d

Happy Birthday Eleanor Roosevelt
October 11, 1884 — November 7, 1962
Perfect quote for #internationaldayofthegirl

Geri Seiberling @geriwithetc.bsky.social · 13d

Happy Birthday Arthur Blakey, a.k.a. Art Blakey, jazz drummer and band leader.
October 11, 1919 - October 16, 1990

“This is Democracy! Everybody contributes to the music!”

A youtube short about Art:
youtu.be/CHu-Euwfj0s

ART BLAKEY on Keeping the Intensity of the Beat

YouTube video by Jazz at Lincoln Center

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Geri Seiberling @geriwithetc.bsky.social · 14d

#WorldMentalHealthDay

They tell me that you lose your mind as you grow older. What they don't say is that you won't miss it very much.
Malcolm Cowley

Enjoy the journey.

Geri Seiberling @geriwithetc.bsky.social · 14d

Someone who understands you: Priceless. There is still hope for the world guys, as expressed in the prose "Gate A-4" by Naomi Shihab Nye

poets.org/poem/gate-4