Jim Adams is the steadfast host of Song Lyric Sunday. Jim says: This week we have Give/Get/Take/Receive/Send and I think that everyone should be able to find a song that uses one of these prompt words. Here are the “rules”: • Post the lyrics to the song of your choice, whether it fits the theme…
Month: March 2020
#MM Saturday Mix — Coronavirus: king of the zoo
The classroom is a zoo. We’re caged within its reach. Worldwide it spreads its goo. The classroom is a zoo. It threatens me and you. Grim lesson does it teach. The classroom is a zoo. We’re caged within its reach. My offering today is a triolet form poem. Sarah is the host of Mindlovemisery’s…
Women Music March #7 — Loreena McKennitt
Loreena Isabel Irene McKennitt, CM OM (born February 17, 1957) is a Canadian musician, composer, harpist, accordionist, and pianist who writes, records and performs world music with Celtic and Middle Eastern themes. From Loreena’s website: Loreena McKennitt is well known as a composer and singer. In a recording career spanning more than two decades, Ms….
Novelty Song Friday #1 — Thrills, by Cake
With the weather getting better, I was in the mood to listen to some Cake, which always brings me up. I chose one of their albums I don’t listen to as much as the others. On it are songs I forgot about but really enjoy. One of them is what I consider a novelty song….
Women Music March #6 — Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996) was an American jazz singer, sometimes referred to as the First Lady of Song, Queen of Jazz, and Lady Ella. She was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing, timing, intonation, and a “horn-like” improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing. After a…
Reena’s Exploration Challenge #126 — Isolation
An oak tree, alone on a hill, may grow big and strong, but when gale-force winds descend, it may topple down. An oak forest, where trunks stand side by side, limb to limb, feet entwined with each other’s, will long endure. Oak trees do not choose where they grow. Fate chooses where the acorn finds…
Thursday Inspiration 47 — The Games People Play
Kiki was not the gambling type, which makes it ironic that she met Will at the casino. Kiki’s parents were gambling addicts. Instead of thinking of a birthday gift Kiki would like based on who she was, her parents gifted her a day at the casino with them and handed her a $100 dollar bill…
Tao Talk 