2025 Holiday Music Playlist

This year’s list has been tweaked a little but most of my old favorites are still on it.  Hoping you have spotify and are able to hear it. LINKS TO YOUTUBESSilver and Gold Burl IvesDon’t Shoot Me Santa The Killers and Ryan PardeyFather Christmas The KinksChristmas in Hollis Run-DMCMust Be Santa Bob DylanChristmas (Please Come…

“Gaudete,” by Steeleye Span (Christmas song repost)

Not sure how many times I’ve reposted it, but here it is again. Voices intertwineto manifest the divinedirect interface I’ll be posting my spotify holiday playlist tomorrow morning. Steeleye Span per wikipedia:Steeleye Span are an English folk rock band formed in 1969. Still active today, they are, along with Fairport Convention, amongst the best known…

Midnight Oil Day (MOD) 2025

image link Last year was the first proclaimed MOD when I made a playlist of my favorite songs from Midnight Oil’s 6th, 7th, and 8th albums, Diesel & Dust, Blue Sky Mining, and Earth & Sun & Moon. These are the three albums I owned at the time and had listened to a lot when…

Holiday pictures, poems, The Snowman

energy gatheredcold short solstice days preparefor long eveninghuddle closely face to facecomfort brightens lonely space   sanctuary singsholy instruments bring joytell sacred storiesone with one they sound as oneworshippers gather today   everyone welcomedeserves is just a conceptto dine in rules outwith judgment there is no placedignity for all   Notes:first pic are the solar…

#SLS – “Hell is Near,” by St. Vincent

St. Vincent album cover photo for “All Born Screaming”image from Atwood Magazine, which also has a spotify playlist of the album linked to it The first two groups I thought about for today’s prompt were Lucius and St. Vincent. Because I just saw St. Vincent on Colbert again, I went with the latter. I wrote…

FFF 62 — Enbridge Line 5 developments

click on link to take you to a page with various live cams trained on Mackinac Straits area Today I’ve learned about two big developments in the fight against Canada’s Enbridge building a tunnel around their decrepit oil pipelines running under the Straits of Mackinac, where 21% of the world’s fresh water resides. The first,…

#MMB — December, by Norah Jones

  image from a post that ranks Norah’s albums DecemberDecember, come to meI hope I can seeYou’re not just in dreamsI will let you beWhy can’t you believeHow much you really mean?December, won’t you comeBack with snow, even sun?Don’t say that it’s doneI will carry you homeTake you from the loneliest placeYou have knownI will…