by Danny Ballan | Feb 24, 2022 | Not About Chess
Introduction You don’t have to be a chess player, or even a fan to know if you are a king or not. In this Of Chess and Life episode, I will only help you answer this simple question and here I insist on addressing this question to both men and women. Are you a king?...
by Danny Ballan | Dec 23, 2020 | Spotlights
Listen to Shelley’s famous poem, Ozymandias, and enjoy a plunge into the deep meanings of this poem. Audio Podcast Spotlights | Ozymandias Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley I met a traveller from an antique land,Who said—“Two vast and trunkless...
by Danny Ballan | Dec 16, 2020 | Spotlights
Audio Podcast The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors.from Waiting...
by Danny Ballan | Apr 12, 2020 | Literary Echoes
Poetry | Invictus Audio Poetry | Invictus Transcript So heavy is your burden, but so is mine, and so is everyone’s. What you kept telling yourself over the years blaming others for your misfortunes and your so-called failures does not concern me or anyone. All those...
by Danny Ballan | Apr 10, 2020 | Literary Echoes
Poetry | To Adonais Audio Poetry | To Adonais Transcript From to Adonais by Percy Bysshe Shelley -39-Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep-He hath awakened from the dream of life-‘Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keepWith phantoms an...
by Danny Ballan | Apr 8, 2020 | Literary Echoes
Hope Is The Thing with Feathers Audio Hope Is The Thing with Feathers Is hope what we need now? No, it’s not hope what we need; it’s not; we need to act and a walking cane as it may be or braces that help us move along, it works only when we stretch our legs and move....
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