Shortest month name, half Spring Midst of trials, must carry on, Sure we can, vamos.
Category: art
Lyrics Post: “The Necromancer”
This song from 1975 and the Canadian band RUSH, their third album, Caress of Steel. All three bandmates are credited for the song, but no doubt drummer Neil Peart had primary if not sole responsibility for the lyrics. I don't know the finer points of Peart's writing, chronology, etc.; that said, this song must be …
Haiku Form: Change Up
Spring to summer, come Fresh spark, short form, soothe the soul Same point, make it good.
Shorten It Up
5 May is the day, the day in the month, the month to shorten it up. Tend to go long, but after a weekend of Rage, Rage Against The Machine, RATM-inspired, gonna work on shortin' up, fewer words, working the same message, Same GOOD coming down with fewer words, concise, more precise, still looking for, …
COVID Muse: Loosening and Tightening
Consider this quarantine we've been under, this time like no other. In my lifetime, it hasn't happened. Day Forty-Something, I'm not even sure anymore. The first full month complete, this we know. The order just came down, it will be another month for us to mostly "shelter-in-place." We know that now too. Are things getting tighter? …
Lyrics Post: “I Think I’m Going Bald”
I wrote a paper for a class in college, the Biology of Aging. For the paper, I researched what happens with "male pattern baldness." I can't rightly recall the details, but I do remember the title: "I Think I'm Going Bald." This song, brought to you by the Canadian band, RUSH, was and is, AWESOME. …
Seasons of Love
This song brings me to tears pretty much every time I hear it. Feel alive. Soak it up. GOOD. "Seasons Of Love"(from "Rent (Original Broadway Cast Recording)" soundtrack) [All:]525,600 minutes525,000 moments so dear525,600 minutesHow do you measure, measure a year? In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffeeIn inches, in miles, in laughter, …
Juxtapose
Side by side we go through life. So many different ways this plays out, consider these few. Unless we choose the hermitic life, we strive to live with others. Friends, colleagues, even strangers, we go through this world side by side. If we're lucky, there's even that ONE special, other person with whom we share …
Lyrics Post: “You Will Be Found”
Brought to you by... Ben Platt, Kristolyn Lloyd, Will Roland, Laura Dreyfuss & Original Broadway Cast Of Dear Evan Hansen Lyrics soundtrack) I don't think I've listened to this song once without having a tear or two dripping down my face... [EVAN:]Have you ever felt like nobody was there?Have you ever felt forgotten in the …
Vigil
Were You There? This African-American Spiritual, first published in 1899, it well, it digs deep at the heart of the matter: from sorrow and anguish and darkness...to...The Light. “Were you there when they crucified my Lord?Were you there when they crucified my Lord?Oh! Sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.Were you there when they …
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