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I keep on vacant land A horse which none can see Now and again grasping the reins I go to meet a twelfth-century Zen priest He lived for eight hundred years There is no trace of his body His body has turned into words Soon even the words will be gone Until then a… Read more
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Don’t Get Around Much Anymore
I heard this song the other day and it seemed appropriate for these sequestered days. None of us are getting around much anymore. Duke Ellington wrote the music and first recorded it with his orchestra in 1940 with the title Never No Lament. Two years later Bob Russell (born Sidney Keith Rosenthal) wrote the lyrics… Read more
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Little Richard (1932 – 2020)
The first time I ever got up on stage to sing and play guitar was October 15, 1981 at the Copper Fox Tavern in Oneonta, NY. It was a requirement of the guitar class I was taking in college. I played three songs. Two of them were original, and if the scrawled notes on my… Read more
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Day 55 – Breaking Quarantine
Day 55 – Total confirmed cases in US: 1,283,929 On the first day of my quarantine, March 16, there were a total of 3,774 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the US. The rise of that number has been sickening in more ways than one. If the people in charge of our federal government – the… Read more
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Day 54
Day 54 – Total confirmed cases in US: 1,256,972 For my penultimate plague diary, I wrote a diatribe about Trump, his supporters, and the Republican Party, but decided against posting that. And I’ll tell you why… I have been intermittently studying the philosophies of Stoicism and Taoism. They have quite an overlap for schools of… Read more
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