image link This is another one of those daunting prompts from Dave, like the one asking us to choose a favorite year in music. Lyrics are probably what leaves the lasting impression in music for me, with many exceptions. Also like other prompts Dave has given us, the song I wanted to use came to…
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dVerse Haibun Monday on January 2023
Over the Christmas weekend we had our first big blizzard and I was snowed in until the day after. We gathered on the twenty-seventh. The grandbaby passed out gifts and watched as each was opened. At one point, she crawled into my lap and put her head on my shoulder, a first. New Year’s Eve…
Albums (CDs) for Christmas
I know I can’t be the only one who buys themselves Christmas presents. Since I featured a few Jethro Tull tunes this holiday season, it refreshed my want to own “Songs from the Wood,” one of the few albums of theirs I don’t have. I went to discogs to find a used CD and easily…
#FF — Street Life
PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields As seeds we’re imprisoned from the moment we’re released from our mothers’ branches. Pressed by rough fingers into prepared medium in small plastic squares, our sprouted roots escape through drainage holes to touch our kins’. As seedlings we are shifted to larger squares until mature enough to be burlap-sacked. For…
Christmas Song Playlist 2022
7 songs. Enjoy!
“Every Time it Snows,” Olivia Newton-John and Jon Secada (repost from 2020)
Jon Secada and Olivia Newton-John I originally posted this at Song Lyric Sunday. It is especially poignant for me because of Olivia’s passing in 2022. Wishing each person reading and listening a peaceful day near those you love. I first heard the song on the day I posted about it last month during…
A2Z 2021 Jethro Tull Songs Day 12 Life is a Long Song (from a 1971 EP and 1972 compilation album) (repost)
This isn’t technically a Christmas song but I think of the end the year when I hear it. First posted for A2Z2021, where I covered a Jethro Tull song for every day in April 2021. The EP had only this song on it. Living in the Past at 87 ½ minutes, came between Thick as…
Tao-Talk 