What I meant to say there

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is that it suddenly struck me tonight, as I have been watching youtubes of Spiti

this is actually a crappy introduction, badly edited etc. but it's reasonably short so...

--anyway... looking at this desert landscape--using the original meaning of 'desert' as in 'deserted' or 'not habitable' (hence some jungles are actually deserts!)--looking at this desert landscape and hearing the Tuva singers, the Tibetan Chanters, the...
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oldernow:
@thebeliever you're welcome - and yes, I have been in my house a while (46 years) - it's on a lake, in a forest with 60 acres of which a dozen are wine grapes and the rest pasture for working horses.
thebeliever:
That sounds incredible. I live in a small apartment and I'm pining for the outdoors and a yard. Maybe next year...

always appreciate a good cover of an old song

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saii:
Hahaa
rare:
hahahaha nice!

dream a little dream

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Last night I dreamt that I was called to a one-on-one meeting with my boss--my own Unconscious, who was a woman. She presented me with a very detailed and carefully reasoned paper on just exactly why getting up early was bad for me... starting with the eyestrain it caused in trying to determine the color of my shirt in the dark. I have taken her...
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ferkixlll:
Smart boss 😉.

music interlude ...

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if you made it this far... one more... you *will* be glad you listened to it!

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oldernow:
@jacleric Thanks! I hope they do too!  There's a lot of good music these days as well...but some of these ought to get a lil air time too!
ferkixlll:
Interesting choices. 😀

just a thought

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I wrote this in response to a client despairing over the ongoing nature of the Covid crisis. My own prediction? the virus will never be cured by a vaccine. Vaccines are not the protocol needed at this time--a paradigm shift has to happen so that there are ways of preventing cancer, aids, and these 'new' viruses that our wanton destruction of nature are producing. I...
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ferkixlll:
A strict vaccine protocol could mitigate, as in Measles, Polio & Smallpox. The nature of COVID's to mutate makes the problem an uphill struggle. There are now several documented cases of reinfection by varient strains of C-19. There is research in Japan to focus on the Spike Protein ( how it enters the Cell ) which may be the way around it's ability to change. Of course it all goes out the window if there is too much Anti-Vaccine sentiment. **  Cooking, there are now too many commercials for prepared foods, with the Tag line: you don't have too cook. ** Did your reading include: "Rats, Lice & History" ?

remember to dance

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even when you are old... it don't hurt none!

ferkixlll:
It's both fun And good for you 😉😉😀
avrora:
So much yes!

The fourth album(z)

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I saw that "music which inspires me" is a recent homework assignment. Welp, as a person who listens to 18 hours of music - on average - per day, i'd have to say there's a lot of music that inspires me from a lot of genres. But when i ask myself what is the essence of inspiration, no matter how much I am about rock-n-roll,...
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griffxx:
A few months back I listened to an opera appreciation course. Crazy stuff...mad skillz.
ferkixlll:
I'd been so impressed with the Bergman film of "Magic Flute" ( art house cinema days ) that it was among the 1st DVD's that I got. I like the part in "Amadeus" where they posit his mother-in-law nagging, inspired "The Queen of the Night".

The third album

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I'm not so swift with 10 albums in 10 days... probably more like 10 albums in 100 days... my life (at 70ish) is packed from breakfast to past midnight... i have been scrambling these months and days to find money and clients for my archiving team of 7 people, and also maintaining my own work as a counselor--and that has left remarkably little time for...
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ferkixlll:
That will open one's eye.

o happy day!

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oldernow:
@ferkixlll you're welcome - i have been in contact with them, they seem to be what we see - earnest and a talented and a bit flaky -- totally deserving support and recognition!
ferkixlll:
The footage of their view of the Comet is interesting, appears 5min & 35sec in. Cuts to a slightly magnified shot at 8min & 40 sec. It gets washed out in the Solar Glare, but sublet changes to the Tail are discernible.

1 of 10 albums (ish) that are essential for me

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Without a doubt this is the first album that walloped me upside the head and scrambled my brains. I think I heard this in 1961 or 62 about 3 years after it came out. At the time I was all about the clarinet, practicing up to four hours a day. Our band in junior and then senior highschool was literally nationally known - in 1967...
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oldernow:
@ferkixlll  I didn't really get into Bitches Brew until I heard John Coltrane's A Love Supreme... then it was all good!  nowadays I've been liking the Miles sets from Newport Jazz Festival (remember that?)
ferkixlll:
Never got to go. Finally heard ( mentioned it Blog about 5 years ago ) the Bootleg Tapes of the Newport Folk Festival where Dylan went 😱 Electric! An amazing day: Donovan and Richard & Mimi were on about The War ( viet nam ). Muddy Waters was electric, so why the outrage?

Y knot?

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oldernow:
@ferkixlll I dropped a 20 in their online hat and got a nice note back from Handkerchief--whose actual last name is Pocket - seems pretty obvious where she got her moniker from!  Very sweet throwback folk - i wish them well. remind me a little of the Spoon Lady
fancy:
This is sooo cool!
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