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As new laws are change around the US more people are becoming both aware and curious about the uses of Cannabis and its therapeutic effects on the body and mind. CBD (cannabidiol) and THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) are two of the many compounds found in the Cannabis plants.

The 2018 Farm Bill has made the farming of HEMP a legal commodity in the US and now users and manufacturers are creating an entirely new industry that speaks to homeopathic medicines and overall health and well-being. CBD can be extracted from hemp or from marijuana. Hemp plants contain less than .03 percent of THC. Marijuana plants on the other hand are cannabis plants that contain higher concentrations of THC.

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In this podcast I break down the differences to help you better understand how they work. 

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I began my CBD journey in 2020. I was asked to produce an event for a friend in his cbd shop. The moment I walked into the space I felt at home. In this episode I talk personally about my family and how cbd works for me.

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I continue to discuss the different CBD Spectrums and how they work for me and others. 

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My friend Benjamin Schnau stopped by for a conversation about CBD, hemp vs cannabis plants, and the 3 spectrums of CBD.

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1878-1967

An English poet and writer, and the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 - 1967.

Sea Fever is considered one of the famous poems known for wanderlust and love for nature. Published in 1902, the poem speaks about a person who talks about his never-ending love for the sea. It also illustrates how he thinks of the sea as a female and urges to spend quality time with her.

John Masefield’s poem “Sea Fever” is a work of art that brings beauty to the English language through its use of rhythm, imagery and many complex figures of speech. The meter in “Sea Fever” follows the movement of the tall ship in rough water through its use of iambs and hard hitting spondees. Although written primarily in iambic meter, the meter in “Sea Fever” varies throughout the poem. The imagery in “Sea Fever” suggests an adventurous ocean that appeals to all five senses. Along with an adventurous ocean, “Sea Fever” also sets a mood of freedom through imagery of traveling gypsies.

The speaker is implying that life is a long sea journey and is requesting a peaceful afterlife. These two themes work together to convey the speakers passionate feelings for the sea and help the reader to further understand the sea’s importance to the speaker. The refrain “I must go down to the seas again” is one of the many poetic devices used to show the strong longing the speaker has for the sea. Equally important, the dynamic imagery is seen practically on each line throughout the poem. The images in “Sea Fever” are strengthened through the use of figurative language.

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1753-1784

Phillis Wheatley was born in West Africa, circa 1753. She became an internationally known American poet of the late 18th century.  She was kidnapped and enslaved at age seven and purchased by a prominent tailor, John Wheatley, in Boston in 1761.  She was spared the worst of slavery, but the harsh New England climate caused asthma. The Wheatley family saw that Phillis was a gifted child, and started to tutor her immediately.  by Although she received no formal schooling, her progress was amazing. Mrs. Wheatley said that in sixteen months from her arrival, Phillis attained the English language, a great astonishment of all who heard her. In the year 1765, Phillis wrote a letter to the Rev. Mr. OCCOM, the Indian Minister, while in England.

Her first poem, "On Messrs. Hussey and Coffin," was published in 1767, but her reputation was made with the appearance of "On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, 1770" which was published widely in the northern colonies and England.  Due to her asthma, Phillis was taken to England in 1773, where she recuperated.  The Wheatley family found a publisher for her poetry.  The collection, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, was the first published book of poetry by an African-American woman or man.

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John James Ingalls 1833-1900. In the late 1990's I worked for a Beverly Hills restaurant called The Hamburger Hamlet. I was a server. And during my shift I would often quote some of my favorite poets as a way to increase my tips. The poem "Opportunity" by John James Ingalls was one of my favorites.

I want to say from the very beginning that John James Ingalls was a Republican politician between 1873-1891. At that time Republicans opposed slavery. John was also an attorney, orator, scholar, and statesman.

Ingalls was known for his keen sarcasm and quick wit, and at age 26 he was a primary force that helped to make Kansas a state. Ingalls represented Kansas as a U.S. Senator and it was he who coined the phrase Ad astra per aspera (to the stars through difficulties) that became the Kansas state motto.

In 1858 John Ingalls settled in Atchison to practice law. He believed in Kansas, and wrote that "the aspiration of Kansas is to reach the unattainable; its dream is the realization of the impossible."

After he was elected as a delegate in June of 1859 Ingalls wrote his father describing Atchison as “an old stronghold of pro-slavery democracy.” He was surprised by the win, considering every other county along the Missouri River elected proslavery Democrats. Ingalls feared that if the majority of the convention representatives were Democrats, “Kansas may be a Slave State after all.” He served as secretary of the state senate during the first legislative session following statehood.

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1888-1965 (lived through two world wars and The Spanish Flu)

Although I first became most familiar with T.S. Eliot from his poem "The Naming of Cats," the inspiration for the musical Cats by Andrew Lloyd Weber, I got to know more of Eliot in an acting class with a woman named Joanne Linville in Los Angeles. We were introduced to The Wasteland as an memorization assignment. I loved it and committed the first of 4 sections to memory. I am happy to share it with you here.

The American that became a beloved British citizen in 1933. Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St. Louis, Missouri on September 26, 1888. He lived in St. Louis for eighteen years and attended Harvard University. In 1910, he left the United States for the Sorbonne after earning both an undergraduate and masters degree.

After a year in Paris, he returned to Harvard to pursue a doctorate in philosophy, but returned to Europe and settled in England in 1914. That was the beginning of World War 1. The following year he married Vivienne Haigh-Wood and began working in London, first as a teacher, and later for Lloyd's Bank.

His first book of poems, Prufrock and Other Observations, was published in 1917, and immediately established him as a leading poet of the avant-garde. Isn't that interesting that he published this work a year before the end of WWI and a year before The Spanish Flu?

The publication of The Waste Land in 1922 is now considered by many to be the single most influential poetic work of the twentieth century, and Eliot's reputation began to grow to nearly mythic proportions, and for the next thirty years he was the most dominant figure in poetry and literary criticism in the English-speaking world.

His poems in many respects articulated the disillusionment of a younger post–World War I generation with the values and conventions—both literary and social—of the Victorian era. He was converted to orthodox Christianity in the late thirties.

T. S. Eliot received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. He died in London on January 4, 1965.

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1809-1849 (He lived only 40 years and left such an incredible literary legacy - My introduction to Poe came in the 7th grade from an English teacher named Verna Matthews. Every Friday she would read aloud the likes of Poe, Harper Lee, and other American authors to her class of youngsters. We were all thrilled. I was so fascinated by the readings I would go home and practice reading aloud).

Edgar Allan Poe, An American poet, Poe was born January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts and died October 7, 1849. He missed WWI and The Spanish Flu.

He was a short-story writer, poet, critic, and editor who is famous for his cultivation of mystery and the macabre. His poem "The Raven" was written in 1845 and is considered amongst the best-known poems in the national literature.

Interestingly enough Poe who was born in American to parents that were both actors, eventually moved to Scotland and England where he was given a classical education that was also furthered in Richmond, Virginia at the University of Virginia. Poe's mother died in 1811 and presumably his godfather, John Allan, a Richmond merchant took him in.

Poe was a gambler and amassed mounting debt. His poverty forced him to join the army under the name of Edgar A. Perry, but, on the death of Poe’s foster mother, John Allan purchased his release from the army and helped him get an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

His story only becomes more complicated: In 1829 he successfully sought expulsion from West Point before proceeding to New York City. He seemed to be influenced by Keats, Shelley, and Coleridge. He returned to Baltimore, where he began to write stories and in 1833 “MS. Found in a Bottle” won $50 from a Baltimore weekly for "Ms. Found in a Bottle." And by 1835 he was in Richmond as editor of the Southern Literary Messenger. There he made a name as a critical reviewer and married his young cousin Virginia Clemm, who was only 13.

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1608-1674 John Milton's Paradise Lost is still considered a tremendous piece literature the world over. And who doesn't recall the lengthy reading from high school English?

Another politician, Milton was also a polemicist, and wrote scholarly letters serving under England's Oliver Cromwell. And in his time we know that a great deal of religious anxiety and political upheaval dominated the lives of Europe.

Part of my reason for visiting poets of this time period is to offer a sense of history's return to what is familiar. In modern society, ours to be exact, we often behave as though we created religious and political conflict. As though the answers to our questions are unsurmountable. But they are not. In fact the answers lie between the pages of many of these poets.

Like Milton, we are all interested in the pursuit of our personal convictions, our passion to live as free men and women, and our insistence on self determination. Just like Milton's time, we too live with political turbulence.

Milton remains generally regarded "as one of the preeminent writers in the English language." Although like many men of his day he is no longer given a pass for his rigid political stance that is described as an "acrimonious and surly republican".

The world changes. And what was regarded as the standard in one era is vilified as an abasement in another.

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1878-1962 (Don't let this be the only poem you listen to from this man. I love his literary voice and I revisit his works often). In 2018 I pursued my DNA history and found that in addition to West Africa, part of my blood line comes from England and Scotland. I can't say that I was very surprised. I have always felt a kind of kinship if you will.

Wilfrid Wilson Gibson was born in England at Hexham, Northumberland. He attended several local schools, but never went to university. This is important because so often people are willing to make excuses about their lack. But here is a man that started writing poetry at the age of eleven, and it became a full-­time occupation.

He began writing poems about ordinary people in ordinary language, simple stories of life among the rural and urban poor. He seems to have been the first twentieth-century poet to devote himself to this sort of subject, and he became well-known. There is always a first, isn't there? In 1912 he he moved to London and eventually lodged for a year at Harold Monro's poetry bookshop. He married Monro’s secretary and settled for a while near Dymock, Gloucestershire, where a short-lived literary colony grew up in the months before the Great War of 1914-1918.

Interestingly enough Gibson is considered a war poet, but he never served abroad. Somehow he managed to get ahead of all other poets in responding to the plight of ordinary soldiers. While others were being grandly rhetorical and patriotic, Gibson was trying to imagine front-line realities, using his spare, Georgian style and his ready sympathy with the underprivileged. It was a new poetry that would convey ‘the plain facts of the human psychology of the moment’, he wrote about mental states and may have been the first 1914-18 poet to portray shellshock.

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William Wordsworth - 1770-1850

Just six years before the American Revolution, April 7, 1770, William Wordsworth was born in Cumbria, England. Wordsworth's mother died when he was eight—

You can imagine that this experience shaped much of his work, particularly later in life. While he was at Hawkshead grammar school Wordsworth's father died leaving him and his four siblings orphans. Wordsworth studied at St. John's College in Cambridge and before his final semester he set out on a walking tour of Europe, an experience that influenced both his poetry and his political sensibilities.

While touring Europe, Wordsworth came into contact with the French Revolution. This experience as well as a subsequent period living in France, brought about Wordsworth's interest and sympathy for the life, troubles, and speech of the "common man." These issues proved to be of the utmost importance to Wordsworth's work. Wordsworth's earliest poetry was published in 1793 in the collections An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches. He was 23 years old.

While living in France, Wordsworth conceived a daughter, Caroline, out of wedlock; he left France, however, before she was born. In 1802, he returned to France with his sister on a four-week visit to meet Caroline. Later that year, he married Mary Hutchinson, a childhood friend, and they had five children together.

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1841-1887

Edward Rowland Sill (April 29, 1841 – February 27, 1887), American poet and educator, was born in Windsor, Connecticut.

He graduated from Yale in 1861 where he was Class Poet. He engaged in business in California, and entered the Harvard Divinity School in 1867 but soon left it for a position on the staff of the New York Evening Mail. After teaching at Wadsworth and Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio (1868-1871), he became principal of the Oakland High School, California.

He was professor of English literature at the University of California during the period 1874–1882. His health was failing and he returned to Cuyahoga Falls in 1883. He devoted himself to literary work, abundant and largely anonymous, until his death in Cleveland, Ohio.

He was a modest and charming man, a graceful essayist, a sure critic. His contribution to American poetry is small but of fine quality. His best poems, such as "The Venus of Milo," "The Fool's Prayer" and "Opportunity," gave him a high place among the minor poets of America, which might have been higher but for his early death.

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1812-1888

Edward Lear was also born near London in a suburb called Holloway. He came from an extremely large family with 21 children. He was the the twentieth child, and the youngest to survive. And although he lived to be 75 years old, he was always in poor health, with poor eyesight, and chronic respiratory problems, and he suffered seizures which brought him a great deal of shame and isolation. 

What I found astounding about many of the poets in this series is that were self-taught. Lear had very little formal education. He was tutored at home and encouraged to draw and paint. And at 16 he helped to support his mother by selling miscellaneous sketches. This was after his father moved to the south of London.  

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1858-1901

He was a noted 19th century American clergyman, pastoring Brown Memorial Park Avenue Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, Maryland, from 1887 to 1900 and then Brick Presbyterian Church in New York City. A graduate of Syracuse University in New York, he was described by a 1910 biographer as a brilliant speaker, "with a marvelous personal magnetism which appealed to all classes of people, and the influence of which became in a sense national". 

He was honored by a Doctor of Divinity degree from Syracuse University in 1896. His collected sermons and newspaper articles were published in 1902 as "Thoughts for Every-Day Living". He authored the familiar hymn, "This is My Father's World", among others.

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1872–1918

John McCrae, a Canadian doctor and teacher who is best known for his memorial poem "In Flanders Fields" was born on November 30, 1872, in Guelph, Ontario. McCrae began writing poetry when he was a student at the Guelph Collegiate Institute and also showed an early interest in joining the military.

At 16 John developed severe asthma and dealt with it for the rest of his life. However he was able to teach English and mathematics at the Ontario Agricultural College in Guelph before returning to the University of Toronto in 1893. He graduated with with a bachelor of medicine degree in 1898. While he studied to be a physician, he also continued writing poetry, publishing sixteen poems and a number of short stories in a variety of magazines.

McCrae felt an obligation to serve in the armed forces. He sailed to Africa and spent a year there with an artillery battery from his hometown. However, McCrae was shocked by the inadequate treatment of the sick and injured soldiers on the battlefield, leading him to resign and cease his involvement with the military for several years.

Returning to his medical career in 1901, McCrae dived into research work in pathology while also serving as resident assistant pathologist at Montreal General Hospital. After a quick succession of promotions, in 1904, he moved to England, where he studied and became a member of the Royal College of Physicians. In 1905, he set up his own practice while also lecturing in clinical medicine and pathology, attending medical conferences in Europe, and writing for medical journals and textbooks.

In April 1915, just a year after WWI began McCrae was stationed in the trenches near Ypres, Belgium, in an area known as Flanders, during the bloody Second Battle of Ypres. In the midst of the tragic warfare, McCrae’s friend, twenty-two-year-old Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, was killed by artillery fire and buried in a makeshift grave. The following day, McCrae, after seeing the field of makeshift graves blooming with wild poppies, wrote his famous poem “In Flanders Fields,” which would be the second-to-last poem he would ever write.

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1803-1882

American poet, essayist, and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He studied at Harvard and taught for a brief time. Emerson entered the ministry. He was appointed to the Old Second Church in his native city, but soon became an unwilling preacher. Unable in conscience to administer the sacrament of the Lord's Supper after the death of his nineteen-year-old wife of tuberculosis, Emerson resigned his pastorate in 1831.

The following year, he sailed for Europe, visiting Thomas Carlyle. Carlyle, the Scottish-born English writer, was famous for his explosive attacks on hypocrisy and materialism, his distrust of democracy, and his highly romantic belief in the power of the individual. Emerson's friendship with Carlyle was both lasting and significant; the insights of the British thinker helped Emerson formulate his own philosophy.

On his return to New England, Emerson became known for challenging traditional thought. In 1835, he married his second wife, Lydia Jackson, and settled in Concord, Massachusetts. Known in the local literary circle as "The Sage of Concord," Emerson became the chief spokesman for Transcendentalism, the American philosophic and literary movement.

Emerson's first book, Nature (1836), is perhaps the best expression of his Transcendentalism, the belief that everything in our world—even a drop of dew—is a microcosm of the universe. His concept of the Over-Soul—a Supreme Mind that every man and woman share—allowed Transcendentalists to disregard external authority and to rely instead on direct experience. "Trust thyself," Emerson's motto, became the code of Margaret Fuller, Bronson Alcott, Henry David Thoreau, and W. E. Channing.

Emerson's philosophy is characterized by its reliance on intuition as the only way to comprehend reality, and his concepts owe much to the works of Plotinus, Swedenborg, and Böhme. A believer in the "divine sufficiency of the individual," Emerson was a steady optimist. His refusal to grant the existence of evil caused Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry James, Sr., among others, to doubt his judgment. In spite of their skepticism, Emerson's beliefs are of central importance in the history of American culture.

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1564-1616

This soliloquy is spoken by Portia in The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare.  It takes place in Act 4, Scene 1, in a Venetian Court of Justice. The speech is regarded as one of the great speeches in Shakespeare, and it is an example of the esteem Shakespeare held for those who showed mercy.

Mercy and forgiveness are enduring themes that pervade Shakespeare's works. It is said that Shakespeare held great esteem for those who showed mercy as expressed in his poetry. Shakespeare presented mercy as a quality most valuable to the most powerful, strongest and highest people in society.

Shakespeare is one of the oldest poets I've included at this time: April 26, 1564 – April 23, 1616.

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1849-1903

Born in Gloucester, England, poet, editor, and critic William Ernest Henley was educated at Crypt Grammar School, where he studied with the poet T.E. Brown, and the University of St. Andrews. At age 12 Henley was diagnosed with tubercular arthritis that necessitated the amputation of one of his legs just below the knee; the other foot was saved only through a radical surgery performed by Joseph Lister. As he healed in the infirmary, Henley began to write poems, including “Invictus.” Henley was a close friend of Robert Louis Stevenson, who reportedly based his Long John Silver character in Treasure Island in part on Henley.

Invictus is a poem which focuses on the human spirit and its ability to overcome adversity. It is a rallying cry for those who find themselves in dark and trying situations, who have to dig deep and fight for their lives. The poet certainly knew hard times and needed all his strength to battle against disease.

W.E. Henley wrote Invictus whilst in hospital undergoing treatment for tuberculosis of the bones, specifically those in his left leg, which had to be amputated from the knee down. He saved his right leg by refusing surgery and seeking an alternative form of treatment from a Scottish doctor.

It was during his time in Edinburgh that Henley met the writer Robert Louis Stevenson. They became friends and corresponded on a regular basis. Stevenson later admitted that he had based his character Long John Silver - from the book Treasure Island - on Henley, he having a wooden leg, a strong rasping voice and a forceful personality.

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1886–1918

Journalist and poet Joyce Kilmer was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Known for poetry that celebrated the common beauty of the natural world as well as his religious faith, he was killed after enlisting in the United States Army during World War I. Kilmer was awarded by the French the prestigious Croix de Guerre (War Cross) for his bravery. His strong religious faith and dedication to the natural beauty of the world influences much of Kilmer’s work.

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1826-1902

Poet, orator and activist was born in Gallipolis, Ohio on April 3, 1826. Bell lived in Ohio most of his life although he briefly resided in Canada and California before eventually returning to Ohio. When Bell was 16 he moved to Cincinnati to live with his brother-in-law George Knight who taught him the plastering trade. Knight and Bell were talented plasterers who in 1851 were awarded the contract to plaster the Hamilton County public buildings.

On November 9, 1847, Bell married Louisiana Sanderlin. The couple eventually had seven children and lived in Cincinnati until 1854 when they moved to Chatham, Ontario, Canada. Chatham was a major destination for the Underground Railroad, and while there Bell became involved in abolitionist activities and later returned to Cincinnati to continue his antislavery work.

Although he supported himself primarily as a plasterer, Bell soon became known for his speeches and poems which he used in the campaign against slavery. His most famous poem, “The Day and the War,” was read at Platt’s Hall in Cincinnati in January 1864 for the Celebration of the first Anniversary of President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. Bell dedicated “The Day and the War” to friend and fellow abolitionist John Brown who was executed in 1859 for his role in the raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry.

Bell was also active in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church and became superintendent of the AME Sunday School from 1870-1873. His wife and oldest son are thought to have died in 1874. Bell continued to travel around as an orator until 1890 when he settled down with his family in Toledo, Ohio. In 1901 Bell published 27 of his poems which he called The Poetical Works of James Madison Bell. James Madison Bell died one year later in Toledo, Ohio.

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1865-1936

An ambitious person can get along much better when he is not hampered by a spouse and family, or by friends who hold you back. Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He was born in India, which inspired much of his work.

Kipling in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was among the United Kingdom's most popular writers. In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, as the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and at 41, its youngest recipient to date. He was also sounded for the British Poet Laureateship and several times for a knighthood, but declined both.

In 2012 I was filming a TV series in London called "Top Dog Model." We were on location, filming at a private residence. I was standing outside the home preparing for an upcoming scene. My assistant was downstairs and ran upstairs to bring me into the house. He said I want to show you something first that I think you are going to like. It was Rudyard Kipling's poem, "IF," posted on the back of a door inside one of the bathrooms. I was familiar with the poem, but this was the first time I had read it standing in a bathroom before going on camera. I became somewhat obsessed with Kipling and wanted to know more of his work. When I came across "The Winners" I felt head over hills in love. It's one of my absolutely favorites.

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1878-1962

Wilfrid Wilson Gibson was born in Hexham, England in 1878. He worked for a time as a social worker in London's East End. He published his first verse in 1902, Mountain Lovers. He had several poems included in various Georgian poetry collections prior to the war. Gibson was alive for World War I, The Spanish Flu, and World War II. 

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1812-1889

Browning was the older of the two children of Robert and Sarah Anna Wiedeman Browning. From his reasonably affluent parents Browning learned to love the arts--books, paintings, music, and theatre. His father, a clerk in the Bank of England, was an unusually well-read man who owned a personal library of 6000 books. His mother was a devoutly religious woman and an accomplished pianist.

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