Words & Music

by Mike Power

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  • Day 47

    Day 47 – Total confirmed cases in US: 1,070,032 I turned the calendar to May this morning and saw something unexpected: there is nothing listed for the whole month. That never happened in the beforetime. 20 years from now, people are going to remember the last month as a mythical time. This will be seen… Read more

  • Day 46

    Day 46 – Total confirmed cases in US: 1,042,874 Like most people, I have found a little extra time to catch up on neglected projects during the quarantine. One of mine is going through old cassettes of original music and digitizing some of them. I came across a song called “Good Good People,” recorded with… Read more

  • Day 45

    Day 45 – Total confirmed cases in US: 1,012,583 As we pass a million cases in my country, and a quarter of a million deaths worldwide, there are innumerable innocences being lost. We will remember the devastation of loss but innocence lies beyond the reach of memory… Innocence rips like a breeze that cuts through… Read more

  • Day 44

    Day 44 – Total confirmed cases in US: 988,490 On the one sunny day we had recently I took a plate of fruit out on my terrace and painted this: It might be an academic question at this point, but, is “still life” a redundant term these days? Read more

  • Day 43

    Day 43 – Total confirmed cases in US: 965,933 Just as there is only one love, that takes many forms, so there is only one hate, and it takes just as many forms. It even convinces some people that it is a form of love, but the differences are deep and immediate. Just as virtue… Read more

  • Day 42

    Day 42 – Total confirmed cases in US: 939,249 There is something ominous about monotony, like waiting for something new and different to come is mixed with fear that the new thing is going to be even worse than the old one. They say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over… Read more