Words & Music

by Mike Power

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  • Melancholy Blues

    “This is a present from a small, distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours.” Jimmy Carter, on the Voyager Golden Record Forty years ago this week NASA launched the Voyager satellite… Read more

  • CitySketch – Farragut

    “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead” David Farragut (paraphrased) David Glasgow Farragut was born in Tennessee and lived in Virginia prior to the Civil War but was a patriotic American who considered secession treason and moved his family to Hastings-on-Hudson before the outbreak of . He become one of the Union’s greatest naval officers. Some… Read more

  • CitySketch – Worth

    “But an officer on duty knows no one — to be partial is to dishonor both himself and the object of his ill-advised favor. What will be thought of him who exacts of his friends that which disgraces him? Look at him who winks at and overlooks offences in one, which he causes to be… Read more

  • The Door

    Go and open the door.           Maybe outside there’s           a tree, or a wood,           a garden,           or a magic city. Go and open the door.           Maybe a dog’s rummaging.           Maybe you’ll see a face, or an eye, or the picture           of a picture. Go and open the door.          … Read more

  • Some Days

    Some days I think my love is gone forever. Then it wells up from nowhere like an island in the middle of the ocean and I find myself clinging to it for survival. Read more

  • Another Thing That Doesn’t Exist Anymore

    Here’s another thing that doesn’t exist anymore.  He wasn’t the greatest comedian who ever lived but he was quick like Robin Williams, understood pathos like Charlie Chaplin and Lucille Ball, and he made a movie about a clown in a concentration camp. Maybe we’ll see it now. Read more