Let the Musical Words Wander continue with this one, let the melody and magic sink in, oh mother…
Category: Attitude
Lyrics Post: “Forever and Ever, Amen”
One of my favorite love songs, by American country & gospel music singer and songwriter, Randy Travis. After two failed marriages, I still believe in love and this sorta sentiment, God bless all the d couples out there! 👍🏽💛✌🏽
Grunge
Just a little late, or was it just right? Right for me in any event, a little bit past my adolescent musical orientation, Smack dab to the middle of where I needed it, Grunge, post Glam Rock, back to basics, rejecting perfect, not fancy, stripped down, Seattle-born, flannel-worn, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Green River, Mother Love Bone, …
Peaceful Dawn
Oh how I love the peaceful dawn, Earth around me not yet awake. Birds begin to sing their songs, sun still well below horizon, Hope underway, fears washing away, or not, depends on the day. Opportunities abound for optimism in the early dawn, positive you can stay positive if you work at it, find the …
Redux: Short-Order Chef, Chief Bottle Washer, Laundry Master
Here’s how I end up most days when I have my kids… Short-Order Chef (Cook, Hack, whatever), what’s that? Four different dishes for the four people at the table? Sure, man, SURE… Chief Bottle Washer, which means most all dishes rinsed and in the dish washer (on a good night, otherwise the sink is piled …
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Jenin
City in the far north of the West Bank, Scenes of repeated violence and long-running misery, suffering, Deviant attitudes on both sides, The Israeli Government, determined to quash Palestinian militancy, The Palestinians, committed and active in violent guerrillera resistance to their Israeli Occupiers, A conflict that has continued for more than three generations, more than …
Remembering Victoria Amelina
Remembering Victoria Amelina, killed in a Russian airstrike in Ukraine. I heard Scott Simon this weekend with an opinion piece… The tragedy itself grabbed me, Her perspective being a writer that had turned to poetry rang true, And as we honor her memory, This is from her poem "About A Crow," translated by Uilleam Blacker: …
Animal Spirit
I believe in spirits; there, it’s out there. Say what you will, we all have to find where we land ourselves on this topic. I believe in human souls, I believe in animal spirits, I believe in the Other World, the Everywhere Spirit. And so let that flow, all around me, around us, from before …
Sharpening The Resistant Ax
We are all born with certain innate qualities; we all have tendencies, preferences, natural skills, abilities. Also, we can all learn new skills, even if they are not so intuitive, so innate. After decades of work experience, I find myself in such a job, honing skills that have never come easy, never come fast, not …
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