Monthly Archives: May 2022

Nothing quite like the pure music of human voices. This timeless 1973 album recorded in Spain on location at a monastery is deeply affecting and a necessary part of serious audiophile’s musical backgrounds. The album is a spiritual meditation expressing … Continue reading →

1959’s “Take Five” single the biggest jazz single of all-time. Above right: the great jazz saxist Paul Desmond with Brubeck live at piano.

(the ultimate, classic Bossa Nova album that brought Bossa Nova to the West in 1964) (left: a 1991 People Time album insert signed at the Yardbird Suite for me by major pianist Kenny Barron who played with Stan on his … Continue reading →

How Rich Was Country Singer Before Her Death?” Totally irrelevant. All her wealth could not help her fight mental health problems and prevent her from committing suicide.This is a typical crazy example of the media playing up money and wealth … Continue reading →

–William Wordsworth Other quotes: -Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings; it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. -Blessed in that dawn to be alive                          … Continue reading →

A small boy sitting at a children’s table in the first-floor front hallway.                                      Movers talking, going up and down the stairs, sweeping … Continue reading →

  While looking at work of well-known women artists in the 1990s, I tripped over this classic and wrote the above response. There is a simplicity about Cassatt’s work that spilled over into the poem’s content and style. Such a … Continue reading →

These days–bad!” –RD

per se, the Sacredness of Life, and Reverence for Life: Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”. (two imaginative visual book versions: the classic Dore is very strikingly atmospheric and awe-some in black and white) (this olde LP … Continue reading →

(Mingan Archipelago) (Moore’s “Sheep Piece” and another sample Moore sculpture)