Liam at Panorama of the Mountains has done a discography review and compiled a list of his Top 10 Clash songs. Check it out! In Music Discoveries, I find artists and bands that I’ve liked but have only listened to a small portion of their output, and do a complete listen of their discography. In…
Coloring Club Plus — 11/22/19
Today’s Celtic letter “U” is dedicated YO(U), my readers and blogmates. I appreciate each and every one of U. I picked up three The Killers albums from the library today and listened to one tonight. I’ll be frank when I say that some of the 17 songs (70:12-worth) on it sound generic and grating, but…
Thursday Inspiration 31 — Grey Day
It was a miserable December morning in Michigan. The meteorologist predicted 40’s degrees F and sunny last night, but it was 30 degrees and grey skies. Even the clouds were grey, probably with cached snow. Usually I would put the pillow over my head and go back to sleep in disappointment; not today. Today I…
dVerse — imitation practice — Grace Transformed
One of my favorite poems even before I began to write poetry is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, “A Psalm of Life.” It’s one I’ve turned to many times when I’ve needed a jolt of encouragement, and it has worked every time. Aside from the positive, life-affirming message, the idea that somewhere along the way I…
Coloring Club Plus — 11/21/19
One of the best songwriting duos of all time, Bacharach and David. “Anyone Who Had a Heart” is a song written by Burt Bacharach (music) and Hal David (lyrics) for Dionne Warwick in 1963. In January 1964, Warwick’s original recording hit the Top Ten in the United States, Canada, Spain, Netherlands, South Africa, Belgium and…
#FF — Adventures in OMB
PHOTO PROMPT © J Hardy Carroll Horatio Maurice Peabody worked out of a cubbyhole at Michigan’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB.) Mr. Peabody’s desk had three monitors, one ten-key adding machine, three legal pads, and a Yahtzee cup of pens and pencils on it. His job was to analyze where too little money was…
“I Don’t Want You to Think (I’ve Moved On,” by Fran — Coloring Club Plus — 11/20/19
The new (debut) Fran album is here! The new (debut) Fran album is here! I listened all the way through twice today while coloring. I’ve got to say dayum is it good. I’m sure varying favorites will rise over time, but the song I chose today had me crying, it is so relevant to my…
Tao-Talk 