Buffy Sainte-Marie played the Peterborough Summer Festival of Lights on June 24, 2009 image link Buffy Sainte-Marie, CC (b. Beverly Sainte-Marie on 2/20/41) is an Indigenous Canadian-American (Piapot Cree Nation) singer-songwriter, musician, composer, visual artist, educator, pacifist, and social activist. While working in these areas, her work has focused on issues facing Indigenous peoples of…
Month: March 2023
Beatles Sculpture by Andrew Edwards
Sculptor Andrew “Andy” Edwards said he hoped his statue, which stands on the Pier Head, [in Liverpool]would become “a place of ritual” for people to come together. — from BBC News, 12/4/15 I just happened across the sculpture from another angle on this blog and instantly fell in love with how the sculptor, Mr. Edwards,…
Doodads — inside / outside 030823
Click on the captions to see the pics full size. Other news: I went outside and walked around the yard. Was going to clean out one of the bluebird boxes and got it open only to discover there was a strip of wood missing from the back wall of it. I pulled it out of…
#FF — Best Woman
PHOTO PROMPT © Jennifer Pendergast I assess my image in the mirror as Layla stands behind me, adjusting my hair accessories. My eyes travel up to one of the most beautiful people I’ve ever known. For a moment I feel I’m dreaming. How can this be? I check the time. “We have five minutes, Layla….
Women Music March 2023 – Day 8 – Nicole Atkins
Nicole Atkins performs at La Zona Rosa during SXSW in Austin, Texas on March 18, 2010 Nicole Atkins (b. 10/1/78) is an American singer-songwriter. Her influences include 1950s crooner music, 1960s psychedelia, soul music, and the Brill Building style of writing. Atkins has been compared to Roy Orbison and singers from the Brill Building era….
Tanka Tuesday 310 — Unnatural
Terri Webster Schrandt Terri says: “This is a photo of Nine Mile Falls, after which our little community is named. I captured this last March when the water district let out the water of the Spokane River to create Lake Spokane. When you drive by, the mist from the falls hits the windshield enough to use…
dVerse — Poetics — Ode to Glenn Buttkus (b. 6/14/44 – d. 2/17/23)
Glenn Buttkus Punched with Buk, their ringed dings of words’ sooty-belled truth a-pealed to ears that could absorb them; both undefeated. Pulled us in; cinemagenic serial called, “Blackthorne”: Buck, Johnny, … and Salina. He served his justice. Shared his life: his world as orphan, as soldier, as actor, yet first always as teacher, selflessly giving….
Tao Talk 