A Delight A Day

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Wednesday, May 27, 2020
A shocker for Trump’s base

Thursday, May 28, 2020
WWII Vet gets over 125,000 Birthday cards

Friday, May 29, 2020
Trump called Jacob Frey weak, a clue that he was anything but with Rachel Maddow.

Monday, June 1, 2020
Clear thinking by George Monbiot

Tuesday, June 2, 2020
The Peaceful Side of the George Floyd Protests

Wednesday, June 3, 2020
An airline attendant and an airline CEO set an example for us all

Thursday, June 4, 2020
Leonard Cohen’s Democracy

Friday, June 5, 2020
Dalai Lama’s message in his endorsement of World Localization Day.

Monday, June 8, 2020
Oscar Hammerstein introduces the song, “You’ve Got to be Taught,” during Brotherhood Week in the United States.

Tuesday, June 9, 2020
Being Black in Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood

Wednesday, June 10, 2020
Clarinetist Anthony McGill plays America the Beautiful in a minor key to shine a light on racism

Thursday, June 11, 2020
Houston police chief comes from the heart

Friday, June 12, 2020
Last year, this video of Maxwell and Flannigan, from New York City, went viral. It’s getting a second wind now.

Monday, June 15, 2020
The Swan Dreams Project: Aesha Ash shows the world that beauty and grace are not defined by status or race

Tuesday, June 16, 2020
Get your hankies for Trenton and Lindsay’s story

Wednesday, June 17, 2020
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Thursday, June 18, 2020
The SWISH MACHINE: Rube Goldberg in 70 steps

Friday, June 19, 2020
Neighborhood Rallies Behind Black Man Afraid to Walk Alone

Monday, June 22, 2020
Sue Taylor, circa 1960s

Tuesday, June 23, 2020
This is how cops were in my hometown when I grew up.

Wednesday, June 24, 2020
We all can use a good laugh these days, and this is a great one from my friend, David Zasloff.

Thursday, June 25, 2020
A new film about David Bohm

Friday, June 26, 2020
This cheatsheet from Recomendo is a great guide to print out and refer to for your writing and thinking.

Monday, June 29, 2020
I am honored to be tied at the hip to Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, the brilliant iconoclast biologist, called “the most heretical scientist of our time.”

Tuesday, June 30, 2020
For Pride month, a great musical number from “Falsetto”

Wednesday, July 1, 2020
This was a very happy show, full of genius, and the great Carl Reiner was a good friend when I got cast in THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW.

Thursday, July 2, 2020
Instagram sensation, Russian artist Ellen Sheidlin, known as Sheidlina, has one of the most unbelievable bodies of work I ever have seen.

Friday, July 3, 2020
A pledge of allegiance to a new worldview

Monday, July 6, 2020
A penguin love story

Tuesday, July 7, 2020
Treasured CAP UCLA performers and the banjo’s black history

Wednesday, July 8, 2020
A short video to test your sharpness

Thursday, July 9, 2020
Tom Hanks on the TODAY show

Friday, July 10, 2020
Puppy cuteness

Monday, July 13, 2020
Great wisdom from Noam Chomsky

Tuesday, July 14, 2020
Crystal Pite’s stunning choreography

Wednesday, July 15, 2020
TV Therapy with Liza Persky

Thursday, July 16, 2020
Toronto Symphony Orchestra plays Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring

Friday, July 17, 2020
A Sleep of Prisoners, by Christopher Fry

Monday, July 20, 2020
Nigerian Ballet Dancer

Tuesday, July 21, 2020
Child piano prodigy plays Carnegie Hall

Wednesday, July 22, 2020
Artist creates optical illusions with body parts

Thursday, July 23, 2020
An online “Common Sense Camp”

Friday, July 24, 2020
“The Internet’s Dad” does fix-it videos for stay-at-homes like us

Monday, July 27, 2020
David Zasloff doing comedy in a talent competition

Tuesday, July 28, 2020
This clip of Charles Eisenstein is perhaps my favorite statement of how things are and could be.

Wednesday, July 29, 2020
Jesus Rafaela Soto’s “Penetrables” are a new form of art

Thursday, July 30, 2020
Isamu Yamamoto’s Skateboarding Skills

Friday, July 31, 2020
John Lewis

Monday, August 3, 2020
Pema Chodron’s “To be Continually Thrown out of the Nest”

Tuesday, August 4, 2020
High School Principal is the new MC Hammer

Wednesday, August 5, 2020
Skeletal ‘beests’ walk the shoreline

Thursday, August 6, 2020
Illustrator Maori Sakai’s Gifs

Friday, August 7, 2020
Tatsuya Tanaka’s COVID artwork

Monday, August 10, 2020
Misato Sano – The Wood Sculptor

Tuesday, August 11, 2020
“Jews in Music” Presented by The Genesis Prize Foundation

Wednesday, August 12, 2020
“Lost in Motions” by Fernando Livschitz

Thursday, August 13, 2020
Such beautiful architecture in a Chinese school

Friday, August 14, 2020
Wealth, shown to scale

Monday, August 17, 2020
Love affair between man and stork

Tuesday, August 18, 2020
Artist Bruno Pontiroli

Wednesday, August 19, 2020
Viktor Kee’s unreal juggling

Thursday, August 20, 2020
Mud Frontiers

Friday, August 21, 2020
US-Mexico Border Seesaws

Monday, August 24, 2020
Suzanne’s Birthday Message

Tuesday, August 25, 2020
Beautiful Makeovers

Wednesday, August 26, 2020
The Scientific & Medical Network’s Newsletter

Thursday, August 27, 2020
Tunnel Beautification

Friday, August 28, 2020
Extraordinary ballet steps

Monday, August 31, 2020
Delirium Musicum chamber ensemble

Tuesday, September 1, 2020
Rural-Style Shuffle Dance

Wednesday, September 2, 2020
Vincent Van Gogh live art

Thursday, September 3, 2020
A 3-year old’s affirmations

Friday, September 4, 2020
Meet James Wanless and a recap of this week’s Delights

Monday, September 7, 2020
Sofia Bonati’s animated paintings

Tuesday, September 8, 2020
André Rieu conducts Johann Strauss’s “The Second Waltz”

Wednesday, September 9, 2020
Dad and daughter’s jaw-dropping routine!

Thursday, September 10, 2020
Luis-Miguel Caraballo paints positive messages

Friday, September 11, 2020
Baby Nigerian Dwarf Goats

Monday, September 14, 2020
MacArthur Fellow, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Painter

Tuesday, September 15, 2020
Pharrell Williams – “Happy”

Wednesday, September 16, 2020
Andy Weil breathing technique

Thursday, September 17, 2020
Ping Pong Mozart Group

Friday, September 18, 2020
Beluga whale playing ‘fetch’

Monday, September 21, 2020
Songs via Drinking Glasses and Bottles

Tuesday, September 22, 2020
Okuda San Miguel’s painted lighthouse

Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Brilliant dancing from many movies all to the tune of “Footloose.”

Thursday, September 24, 2020
Mime Artist Les Bubb

Friday, September 25, 2020
Japanese artist, “Lito Leaf Art”

Monday, September 28, 2020
An animated poem makes for one of the most wonderful things I ever have seen.

Tuesday, September 29, 2020
Wildly Unusual Musical Instruments

Wednesday, September 30, 2020
Rock’N Roll Dance Medley

Thursday, October 1, 2020
Ronit Baranga’s ceramic world

Friday, October 2, 2020
Click on the image below to appreciate this delicious tongue-in-cheek artwork.

Monday, October 5, 2020
Fall in love with Dietmar & Nellia at the 15th international Rock That Swing Festival in Munich.

Tuesday, October 6, 2020
I never really appreciated how wondrous peacocks are.

Wednesday, October 7, 2020
Eva Cassidy is the number one singer I listen to.

Thursday, October 8, 2020
Lace Art by Agnes Herczeg

Friday, October 9, 2020
Seamus Wray cleverly paints himself painting himself!

Monday, October 12, 2020
With the right partner I could get serious about living like this.

Tuesday, October 13, 2020
The pure delight of a pigeon dancing!

Wednesday, October 14, 2020
Sandra Apperlo’s ceramics

Thursday, October 15, 2020
Russian dance by the Igor Moiseyev Ballet

Friday, October 16, 2020
Such sweet new work by Kai Skye (A.K.A. Brian Andreas)