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Nov 18, 2015 · In this rare archival recording, Eliot reads this timeless masterpiece, which contains one of the most exquisite phrases ever written in the English language: “the still point of the turning world.”
This is an AWESOME live (Fleetwood Mac) performance of World Turning!! (In my opinion, this is one of the best live versions ever done of this song!)
- 5 min
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- Lindsey Buckingham Gems
This is one of those powerful poems. These lines can catch us in a dark moment, uplift when we feel stuck or lost, lead us into greater presence... At the still point of the turning world. That image of movement, dancing amidst stillness, right at the center point.
Turning World is a boutique cultural agency connecting contemporary cultures in Australia and the Asia Pacific. Based in Melbourne and Fremantle, Turning World offers policy, curatorial and producing services with a focus on engaging with large-scale cultural institutions, governments and major events.
Mar 7, 2013 · The Still Point of the Turning World is the story of a mother’s journey through grief and beyond it. Rapp’s response to her son’s diagnosis was a belief that she needed to “make my world big”—to make sense of her family’s situation through art, literature, philosophy, theology and myth.
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- 2013
- Emily Rapp
3 days ago · It’s burned into my memory, and anybody old enough to remember that day can tell you exactly where they were when the world stopped turning. As we began to pick up the pieces in the days and weeks following the attacks, the CMA Awards were held just two months later on November 7, 2001.
To me, that “eternal act” is nothing less than the creation of what T.S. Eliot called a “still point” of time’s turning world: neither past nor future, “neither ascent nor decline,” “neither from nor towards.” 10 To improvise one must be wholly, almost ecstatically present, and reaffirm that presentness in each moment.
