Dave, at A Sound Day, posted a Redbone Halloween song and talked about “The Witch Queen of New Orleans” a real person. That reminded me of a poem I wrote about her awhile back. OK, this one needs a WARNING. Adults only and not for the faint of heart. “Tis I, Marie, you come to…
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Women Music March #5 Loretta Lynn — repost from 031220 Love You, Loretta, may you continue to sing with the angels
Loretta Lynn pic taken in 2017 Loretta Lynn (née Webb; born April 14, 1932) [and recently passed away yesterday, 10/4/22] is an American country music singer-songwriter with multiple gold albums in a career spanning 60 years. She is famous for hits such as “You Ain’t Woman Enough (To Take My Man)”, “Don’t Come Home A-Drinkin’…
Tourmaline’s Halloween Challenge Day 1 – Monster
This is my first year participating in this challenge and I’m excited to give it a try. I have no idea how my experiment will work out but I’m going to try to write one long Halloween story for the challenge, one part per day that will include the day’s word. Part 1 If you…
collage — modern bison
A few weeks ago, while learning more about First Peoples and the American Bison that I had an idea. In my collage cutout box with people are a million images of models with picture perfect hair, all made up, invariably gorgeous, all selling something. I started to think this is what the Indigenous tribes were…
Dream collage and Happy Birthday George Harrison.
This is a repost from March 27, 2020. I just read Dave at, “A Sound Day“s post that February 25 is George Harrison’s birthday 79 years ago. Anyone who has read Tao-Talk for long knows how I feel about my dear Geo. I decided to repost this because Geo was part of my dreams and…
Favorite Holiday Movies — “The Snowman”
A repost from last year (and will probably be posted next year as well.) The beautiful simplicity of the animation, the tender-hearted magic of the story, and the music make this one of my all-time favorite holiday films. If you haven’t seen it, please take the time to do it.
Things that make me go hm?
Last night as I was watching movies, the bright of the almost full moon kept flickering through the blinds, finally calling enough times to motivate me to do something I rarely do: go outside in the middle of the night to take a picture. It was 3 a.m. when I set my new phone’s camera…
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