"One Week" by the Barenaked Ladies Those whacky Canadians, that’s what I thought when I first heard this song. Then I thought, AWESOME. And I still think that’s the case all these years later. Go ahead, sing along… “It's been one week since you looked at me Cocked your head to the side and said, …
Category: art
Black History Month 2022: Sidney Poitier
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 …
“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 …
1/2_Full, All GOOD 