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Life is Color (and 250,000 bouncy balls)…
———— I could not take my eyes off this soothing and mesmerizing video clip. It reminded me of bouncy balls (on steroids) in my childhood. Settle in and watch 250,000 colored balls being dropped down...
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Now the afternoon is fading on…
“…I asked you not to keep me waiting. I told you not to keep me waiting. Now the afternoon is fading on…” (Lyrics) “…I want a little bit of everything, The biscuits and the beans,...
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He’d grown up just like me. My boy was just like me…
Eric (son) and I concluded our college visits last week. The May 1 final decision date was banging on the back door. He has 2 excellent choices. One close to home. One a plane ride away. Son like...
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Walk on By
Burt Bacharach & Hal David Hal David passed away on Saturday. David was a lyricist and partnered with music composer Burt Bacharach to produce some of the most memorable and long lasting hits of...
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Golden Autumn Day
…And I’m taking in the Indian Summer And I’m soaking it up in my mind And I’m pretending like it’s paradise On a golden autumn day, on a golden autumn day On a golden autumn day, on a golden autumn...
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Mantas Last Dance
One word. Beautiful. If I could stay just for a minute more Then I could say all the things I’ve been saving up for Never enough time in the day & moments like this come a moment too late And,...
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Clouds in my Coffee
I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee clouds in my coffee, and… ~ Carly Simon, You’re So Vain Quote Source: Thank you Dan @ Your Eyes Blaze Out. Image Source: Thank you Susan @ Licht Years
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Tuesday’s Gone With The Wind
Train roll on, on down the line, (On a high-speed train going South) Won’t you please take me far away? (To the tropics, far far down South) Now I feel the wind blow outside my door, (Friggin’ Cold...
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Forget your Perfect
Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in That’s how the light gets in That’s how the light gets in. ~ Leonard Cohen,...
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But now we must pick up every piece, of the life we used to love
Maureen Dowd on Stephen Colbert, A Wit for All Seasons: He (Stephen Colbert) describes himself as “an omnivore,” who loves everything from “A Man for All Seasons” to “Jackass,” from hip-hop to Ovid in...
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Believe
I saw a peanut stand, heard a rubber band, And seen a needle wink its eye But I be done seen about everything When I see an elephant fly When I see an elephant fly I’ve seen a front porch swing, heard...
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Monday Mantra
Source: Justlyrics (from “Same Love” by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis f/ Mary Lambert)
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Riding Uptown. Solo.
May 28th. Days short of June, yet solar heaters are blowing. 84° F, and steamy. Sidewalks are teeming with tourists. Mid afternoon Manhattan traffic is locked bumper to bumper, snaking up Sixth...
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Walking Cross Town. In Slow Motion.
Thursday morning. First train arrives at Grand Central at 5:55 am. I twist ear buds in. Turn volume up. And set the playlist. Noise cancelling headphones block the outside. David Gray fills the...
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Go.
Source: yogaholics. (“This Little Light of Mine” is a gospel children’s song with lyrics by Avis Burgeson Christiansen and a tune written by composer and teacher Harry Dixon Loes (1895–1965) circa...
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Driving I-95 S. With Dancing Nancies.
Friday morning. July 17th. 77° F. 8:10 am. Traffic? A lava flow. I’m in the center lane between two tractor trailers. Behemoths. Wall to wall. The Mind, a Raccoon, ever searching, digging, anxious....
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Young as the Morning, Old as The Sea
I wanna lay by a lake in Norway, I I wanna walk through Swedish fields of green I wanna see the forests of Finland, I I wanna sail on a boat on the Baltic sea I wanna fell the rushing winter, I I...
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Riding Uptown. Saving the Best For Last.
The memory was triggered by a tune played on the car radio on a balmy December day last week. A tune I’ve played hundred’s of times since it was released in 1991. A tune that sits on top of the same...
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Driving I-95 S. With A Distant Fire.
6:28am. I hit the ignition, the middle aged lady groans but fires. It’s 23°F and she’s not liking it. You and me girl, still firin’. Going down with our boots on. Till death do us part. ’70s on 7 are...
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Moving a million miles a minute / Slow slow slow
Allen Stone, 28, is an American soul musician from Chewelah, Washington. His website states that people describe him as a soul and R&B singer, yet he sees himself as a “hippie with soul.” Allen...
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