Once you realize that you’re not where you’re supposed to be, you can go back to that home place, that starting point that feels right to you. “Action is the antidote to despair.”― Joan Baez Becoming a better person requires you to consistently act on your goals until you accompli...
“Oh my God,” says Dacus. “Sometimes I have to remember how important she is, because in our experience of her, she’s just been super-kind, and complimenting us, and then it’s like, ‘You’re Joan Baez! You made music joyfully political for a whole generation of people!’ Someti...
The event has been fine-tuned somewhat. It reminded me a bit of American Idol the way we were given a video showing us a lot more about each of the young candidates. After the orchestra gave us the overture to Un giorno di regno by Giuseppe Verdi, and opening remarks from our host E...
I took a breath, learning as I have over two decades, to remember that this suggestion was likely coming from a place of concern and hope. I told them that Caleb and I have put in thousands of hours of speech, occupational, physical, and equine therapies. In concert with the world’s ...
This is a post about song songs. A term that probably doesn’t mean much to you. Not surprising. I made the term up when I was maybe thirteen. Now remember this was over fifty years ago, not just before streaming, not just before MP3s, but a long time ago. Before CDs. Even befor...
Studs Terkel Who are themselves sounds very light when it comes to [unintelligible]. Dorothy Parker Well I mean you know it's as you may remember during that convention they were looking down on the women and saying, Oh these quotas for minority groups. The next thing you know we'll ha...
Remember the 1917 Norwegian "braking law." The left says that the purpose of the Industrial Revolution was to drive people out of work and to create a permanent plutocracy. If that was the purpose it failed. Indeed the lost world that the Industrial Revolution creatively destroyed had of ...
Eventually, the Saturday Night Fever craze subsided – to their great relief. "I remember not being able to answer the phone, and I remember people climbing over my walls," Barry Gibb told Vanity Fair. "I was quite grateful when it stopped. It was too unreal. In the long run, your li...
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