Fall End of the Week Music Que
This is my new music que for Friday, October 14, 2022
Author: Gary Boyd
Maria Popova
This is the great and terrifying truth about the creative life: Anything we make — all this longing for beauty and meaning, all these reckonings and raptures, these most passionate and personal fragments of being — is just a tiny seed compacting everything we are, blown into the wind that…
Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
Gary Myers shared this quote in a post, Silent Watch. It resonated with me greatly. Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven’t the answer to a question…
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore
Do you see how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, and it hits or misses, and that’s the end of it. When that rock is lifted, the earth is lighter; the hand that bears it heavier. When it is…
New Music… At Least To Me
I was reading my friend Gary Myers' blog post this morning and followed a music link. While the song he posted was really good, it was a link in the recommended list to the side that caught my eye... https://youtu.be/DWZ5_uKL428 Now as far as I know, I've never run across…
Back to School in Texas
Texas is averaging 38 to 43 new hospitalizations every day of children with COVID-19. When Dallas ran out of pediatric ICU beds last week, Dallas County judge Clay Jenkins made clear how dire the situation was when he said any child who needed an ICU bed “will wait for another…
You Want A Physicist…
https://youtu.be/boryYhyKbCs
Thank You World Café
Lord Huron is an American indie rock band based in Los Angeles. The band was founded by guitarist and lead singer Ben Schneider and is composed of Mark Barry (drums, percussion), Miguel Briseño (bass, keyboard, theremin), and Tom Renaud (guitar).[2] Following some solo and self-produced EPs, the group's debut album Lonesome Dreams was released in 2012[3] and their…