The mind is an interesting thing. The other day BTO's "Blue Collar" popped up on my Spotify Discover playlist. This is a song that I love, and I hadn't heard it in years. The song reminded me of a similar song that my stepfather, Larry Steely, turned me onto and which came out around the… Continue reading The Chain of Memory
Category: Music
And a Bang on the Ear
It is a cliche to say that music touches the soul, but what can I do? It does. Most of the time, though, we know why it does. I am a huge fan of Beethoven. To me, Beethoven is proof of the divine: no mere chance could have Beethoven composing The Ninth Symphony even though he was… Continue reading And a Bang on the Ear
We See Dead People
When I was a teenager, we had a neighbor next door who lived in the same house since the mid-1930s. She had a sister who was a pack rat, and subscribed to magazines and news papers, and never threw them away. Rather, she put them in the garage. After fifty years of this, the garage was full. Since… Continue reading We See Dead People
Newly Discovered Favorite Things
I ran into two things today that I had never heard of before, both of which I am happy I know about now. The first is a song by John Stewart called "Mother Country," which was a song forwarded to me by a friend in response to an earlier post. I had never heard of John Stewart, and… Continue reading Newly Discovered Favorite Things