I could play in folk trios:
Bob Dylan (John Wesley Harding album) Johnny Rivers
Trini Lopez Peter, Paul, and Mary The Kingston Trio
“According to Oxford University Press (OUP), publishers behind the Oxford English Dictionary, the slang term refers to a type of behavior which is “unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy, typically in a way that rejects social norms or expectations” – traits that may have become familiar to many during lockdown.”
As some slide back into the primordial, barbaric ooze….
Another major Trudeau failure.
T.S. Eliot’s “The Journey of the Magi”, 1927.
A cold coming we had of it,
Just the worst time of the year
For a journey, and such a long journey:
The ways deep and the weather sharp,
The very dead of winter.’
And the camels galled, sorefooted, refractory,
Lying down in the melting snow.
There were times we regretted
The summer palaces on slopes, the terraces,
And the silken girls bringing sherbet.
Then the camel men cursing and grumbling
and running away, and wanting their liquor and women,
And the night-fires going out, and the lack of shelters,
And the cities hostile and the towns unfriendly
And the villages dirty and charging high prices:
A hard time we had of it.
At the end we preferred to travel all night,
Sleeping in snatches,
With the voices singing in our ears, saying
That this was all folly.
Then at dawn we came down to a temperate valley,
Wet, below the snow line, smelling of vegetation;
With a running stream and a water-mill beating the darkness,
And three trees on the low sky,
And an old white horse galloped away in the meadow.
Then we came to a tavern with vine-leaves over the lintel,
Six hands at an open door dicing for pieces of silver,
And feet kicking the empty wine-skins.
But there was no information, and so we continued
And arriving at evening, not a moment too soon
Finding the place; it was (you might say) satisfactory.
All this was a long time ago, I remember,
And I would do it again, but set down
This set down
This: were we led all that way for
Birth or Death? There was a Birth, certainly
We had evidence and no doubt. I had seen birth and death,
But had thought they were different; this Birth was
Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death.
We returned to our places, these Kingdoms,
But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation,
With an alien people clutching their gods.
I should be glad of another death.
democracy, rationalism, and individualism, Western civilization would/will perish.
*The threats to American democracy, facts and truth in America, and the imposition of limited agendas to create rigid conformity in America all illustrate the dangers to the survival of Western civilization within the U.S.
Rachel Carson
Madame Curie
Mother Teresa
Elizabeth I
Florence Nightingale
Jane Goodall
Helen Keller
Cleopatra
Joan of Arc
Jane Austen
Virginia Woolf
Amelia Earhart
Anne Frank
Greta Thunberg
Emmeline Pankhurst
Rosa Parks
Alice Munro Joan Baez Marilyn Monroe
1. WWI
2. Black Death
3. Industrial Revolution
4. WWII
5. Fall of the Roman Empire
(source: David & History of the Ages, online)
Jane Austen
George Eliot
Emily Dickinson
Virginia Woolf
Alice Munro Margaret Atwood
Jesus
Muhammad
Buddha
Aristotle
Shakespeare
Leonardo da Vinci
Gutenberg
Gandhi
Einstein
Martin Luther King, Jr.
J.T. and The Gift of Music
