Quite an air this man had about him. A certain class, a particular panache, set him apart. First African-American actor to win the Oscar Award for Best Actor. So many acclaims, so many accolades, one of the last actors of the Golden Age. Sidney Poitier: “I do know I’m responsible not for what happens but …
Category: art
“Oh, What Do You Write?”…Hmm
What exactly do I write here? Good question, good question. Sometimes it feels like a public writing journal, jottings and random and drafty, not too polished, I know my intent overall is to share positive energy, on a good day actually inspire some, maybe a lot, To do good, help others, think differently, more inclusively, …
Lyrics Primer: “Twelve Days of Christmas”
A little primer is all you need to sing this simple, classic Christmas carol…it took me having kids to learn and remember this song…FUN…! 12 Drummers… 11 Pipers… 10 Lords 9 Ladies… 8 Maids… 7 Swans… 6 Geese… 5 Gold Rings… 4 Calling Birds… 3 French Hens… 2 Turtle Doves… A Partridge in a pear …
Strange Solace
Working in the warehouse today, standing in-between the looming racks of material,pallets up high, down low, also looses boxes neatly stacked. I'm between PL1 and PL2. Gray, rainy day outside, much needed rain for our drought-stricken state. The weather turned wet yesterday, and is expected to continue throughout today. Near the location I'm working in …
Lyrics Post: “The Big Money”
Sometimes you wake up with a song in your head and you gotta share it. This one from RUSH. What I think of as the third chapter in their musical canon. GOOD. "The Big Money" Big money goes around the worldBig money undergroundBig money got a mighty voiceBig money make no soundBig money pull a …
Weekend Night Muse, Have Some Sense: The Riff Continues
Everything slows, anticipation no more, now here. Recollection, a muse from the not too different future follows, kids messing, heart beat slowing, weekend… “What is our true place in the world? All around it comes at us: what to see, hear, feel, the big three, there like it or not, want it out not, it’s …
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New Shiny Things
Kids love new, shiny things. Maybe we all do. And treasure boxes; treasure boxes to tuck away all those new, shiny things; they become less shiny with time; then they become treasures. Under the bed, in the nightstand, into the closet, up in the rafters the treasures go. Hold on for years, decades. Magic to …
Local Inspiration
These all from the Triton Museum, Santa Clara. Chalk art festival outside on the grounds; sampling of the exhibits on the inside. Inspired. Chalk it up. GOOD.
Lyrics Post: “Me In Honey”
Another one that spoke truth to me somehow; not sure why; but from the first time until right this moment, this song, speaks. REM. THANK YOU. "Me In Honey" I sat there looking ugly, looking ugly and meanI knew what you were saying, you were saying to me Baby's got some new rulesBaby said she's …
Lyrics Post: “Back to the Bay” by Daveed Diggs
Pretty well can't say enough good things about this dude, Daveed Diggs. Beyond his beats, his words, his Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson...I just pretty well love everything I've learned about him. He inspires, plain and simple. And he's a WARRIORS fan from Oakland, California. All the better, dig it, dig Diggs, Back to the Bay... …
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