If you are a dreamer, come in. –Shel Silverstein, from Invitation At ten, it was screamed epithets and the rhythmic crack of dad’s belt on her back as she curled on the filthy floor. At twenty, it was the sound of her drunken boyfriend’s fist crunching fine bones in her face. At thirty, it was…
Month: April 2021
A2Z 2021 Jethro Tull Songs Day 10 – (A Song for) Jeffrey, from This Was (debut) (1968)
“A Song for Jeffrey” was released as their second single in the U.K. However, in the U.S., it was the B-side to “Love Story”. It is written in honor of Ian Anderson’s friend and future Jethro Tull bassist Jeffrey Hammond. Another version of the song was recorded for play on BBC radio. The song…
The Sunday Muse 155 — Poppy Dreams
Sprouted from a tiny seed it grew into a grand plan — sail folded origami over summer’s verdant land. Creases folded perfectly Its nose a consummate point Now but to wait for warm wind her realized dream annoint. Poppies begged her, “Please, do stay! You’ll ne’er return if you leave today!” Wanting to take them…
Sculpture Saturday #53 — Iron Tree by Ai Weiwei
This is a new challenge for me. Susan Kelly hosts Sculpture Saturday. Meijer Garden and Sculpture Park is full of sculpture. My favorite sculpture there, by one of my favorite big artists, is Iron Tree by Ai Weiwei. Learn more about Iron Tree here.
A2Z 2021 Jethro Tull Songs Day 9 Inside, from Benefit (1970)
Benefit is their third studio album, released in April 1970. It was the first Tull album to include pianist and organist John Evan – though he was not yet considered a permanent member of the group – and the last to include bass guitarist Glenn Cornick who was fired from the band upon completion of…
A2Z 2021 Jethro Tull Songs Day 8 Hymn 43, from Aqualung (1971)
Aqualung is their fourth studio album, released on 19 March 1971, by Chrysalis Records. It is widely regarded as a concept album featuring a central theme of “the distinction between religion and God”, though the band have said there was no intention to make a concept album, and that only a few songs have a…
dVerse — MTB — A Blessing and a Curse
The idea in our culture of body solely as sculpture is wrong. Body is not marble. That is not its purpose. Its purpose is to protect, contain, support and fire the spirit and soul within it, to be a repository for memory, to fill us with feeling – that is the supreme psychic nourishment. It…
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