To me, being asked to write about The Beatles is like being asked to write about the air or the sky or water. They are like elements of nature, so immersing and vast it is difficult to grab on to a small enough aspect to be able to articulate it in words. Ever since Max…
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Black Belt Eagle Scout: “Spaces” — Turtle Talk — Day 10 Part 2
Add in for Women Music March 2023. Katherine Paul from Black Belt Eagle Scout. Will feature her more fully in another year. To learn more about her for now, go here.
Women Music March 2023 – Day 10 – Flora Purim
Flora Purim photo by Lindy Pollard Flora Purim (b. 3/6/42) is a Brazilian jazz singer known primarily for her work in the jazz fusion style. She became prominent for her part in Return to Forever with Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke. She has recorded and performed with numerous artists, including Dizzy Gillespie, Gil Evans, Opa,…
dVerse — MTB — cosmos tryptych
Triptyque: Soleil / Lune / Terre by Rosalinda Alvarez sun distant being propels fright’ningumbra whit’ningthissing, thattingtai qi singing moon little cousin orbits, dreamspars,envies solstarbegs for lightcrumbsphysics grace comes earth tiny bubble at the whim ofmaths and godlovebounces lyricssong’s mysterics minute form Laura is today’s host of dVerse’ Meet the Bar. Laura says:And so…
Women Music March 2023 – Day 9 – Buffy Sainte Marie
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…
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…
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