Wonderful ideas and young people taking to the streets for vital institutions for infrastructure between citizens. I’d like to see something similar for U.S. post offices and libraries. The gathering I attended was not too large, but I was given an informative brochure by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers … click on title…
Month: September 2019
dVerse — haibun — Surprise!
As each morning brings the ritual of opening all of the blinds, windows, and sliders, so does the dusk bring their closing. At times, the ritual is disrupted when heavy storms blow rain in; depending on the wind’s direction doors and windows are closed accordingly, to keep out pooling water. One such afternoon, when the…
#FFFC — A Place to Grow
Finding a place to grow food in the city was becoming an emergent crisis. Overpopulation forced building housing on every square inch of land that wasn’t streets or sidewalks. The price of food, both at grocery stores and at farmers markets made it unaffordable to most. Growing one’s own became essential. Bands of like-minded (and…
Coloring Club Plus — 9/30/19
George Fest – subtitled A Night to Celebrate the Music of George Harrison – is a live album and concert DVD package documenting the George Fest tribute concert to former Beatle George Harrison, held at the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles on 28 September 2014. The album and documentary were released on 26 February 2016….
Coloring Club Plus — 9/29/19
The 1966 Live Recordings is a 36-CD boxset of live recordings from the 1966 Live Tour by Bob Dylan, released on Legacy Records in November 2016. It includes every known recording from the tour, including audience tapes. Most of the set was unreleased at that point and some tapes never circulated before. Apparently they have…
#SLS — twofer — Steve Earle’s Mystery Train Part II and Elvis Presley’s Mystery Train
Jim Adams is the steady host of Song Lyric Sunday. Jim says: This week the prompt is Train songs and I feel that everyone should be able to find a song that fits this theme. Here are the “rules”: • Post the lyrics to the song of your choice, whether it fits the theme or…
#MM Saturday Mix — The Pink Bench
image link Ed lived in a small house in a quiet residential neighborhood. Now 84 years old, the past year had gotten him accustomed to a slightly different routine than the one of the previous 50 he was used to. A year ago this day, his beloved wife, Bell, had passed on from this world…
Tao Talk 