Monthly Archives: April 2023

April 22, 2023 · 11:49 am

Purple flowers guest collection #205

Appalachian blue violets
Poconos, Pennsylvania
Melodee Bottari

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April 21, 2023 · 9:35 pm

21 April 2023

Still recuperating.
Canadian Railroad Trilogy – Gordon Ligfhtfoot
Living Just for You – Hot Tuna
Small House – Waskaganish Community
Faraway Look – Yuna
Silver – Ric Ocasek
It’s and Illusion – Johnny Clegg & Savuka
Once In an Eternity / Mugen No Naka No Ichido – Yumi Matsutoya
The Great Storm Is Over – John McCutcheon
Listen for the Laugh – Bruce Cockburn
Sexy – Mary J. Blige
The Voice – Celtic Woman
Catching the Wave – Eric Bogle
Cherokee – Walela
Shoe a Little Horse – Sharon, Lois & Bram
Five Little Pumpkins – Raffi

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April 20, 2023 · 9:38 pm

20 April 2023

Still dealing with illness.
Rock Me on the Water – Annie Humphrey
It’s Alright to Cry – Rosie Grier
James Connolly – Black 47
20 Dollar Bill – Tom Prasada-Rao
Hey Tomorrow – Jim Croce
Take a Bow – Rihanna
I Can’t Stand Up for Falling Down – Sam & Dave
The Strangers – Eric Bogle & John Munro
Everybody Wake Up – Dave Matthews Band
Child of Mine – Carole King
This Is Not the End – MLCK
Strange World – Sarah McLachlan
Casadh An tSúgáin (Twisting Of The Rope) – The Chieftains
LOVE – Jhene Aiko
Everybody Has the Blues – James Taylor
Love’s Recovery – Indigo Girls
Window Reel/Caravan Reel – Aurora Celtic

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April 19, 2023 · 10:16 pm

Purple flowers guest collection #204

Old Jewish Cemetery
Prague, Czech Republic
Lisa Sisenwein
19 April 2023

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April 19, 2023 · 10:11 pm

19 April 2023

Tricia’s birthday.
Illness continues. Puttering around apartment.
Cut the Cake – John McCutcheon
Third Movement of the Violin Concerto by Aram Khachaturian, arranged for flute – Sean Koenig
You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught – South Pacific
I Could Have Danced All Night – My Fair Lady
Free to Be … You and Me – The New Seekers
Feel Like a Natural Woman – Carole King
Running on Empty – Jackson Browne
The Pony Man – Gordon Lightfoot
Prayer – Come from Away
Raise You Up/Just Be – Kinky Boots
Just My Imagination – The Temptations
Home – Karla Bonoff
Dance to the Music – Sly & The Family Stone
Pata Pata 2000 – Miriam Makeba
Quite Early Morning – The Mammals
Let It Be – The Beatles
Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World – Israel KaKamakawiwo’ole
Flamingo – Kero Kero Benito
Bridge over Troubled Water – Simon & Garfunkel

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April 18, 2023 · 11:02 pm

18 April 2023

Illness continues.
Joy (Pt. 1) – Isaac Hayes
Love Is Just a Four Letter Word – Joan Baez
Open Arms – Journey
World Falls – Indigo Girls
Be Ye Glad Preamble – Little Windows
The Big Ranch – Los Lobos
I Want You – Bob Dylan
The Man in the Long Black Coat – Mark Lannigan
Sway – Bic Runga
The One I Want – Carter Anderson
After the Thrill Is Gone – The Eagles
Like Fire – Joan Armatrading
That Lucky Old Sun – Johnny Cash
Rivers of Wonder – Tommy Sands
All the King’s Horses – Aretha Franklin
D.C.B.A. 25 – Jefferson Airplane
Mighty Love – The Spinners

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April 17, 2023 · 10:41 pm

17 April 2023

Bad cold for multiple days. Slight improvement today. In the apartment movement.
Deguello de Crockett – Carter Burwell
Little Big Horn Battle Song – Porcupine Singers
Crowley’s/Jackson’s – Eileen Ivers
Tangled up in Blue – Bob Dylan
A Dream Come True – Elton John and Leon Russell
Tell Them We Exist – Luis Cachiguango
Kwa-Blaney – Hugh Masekela
Woke up This Morning with My Mind Stayed on Freedom – Congregation of Brown Chapel
Little Wing – The Coors, feat. Ronnie Woods
In Every Corner Of The Forest Part 2 – Bill Miller
The Real Old Mountain Dew – The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem
It’s Alright to Cry – Rosey Grier
My World – The Webber Sisters
River’s Invitation – Joe Cocker
Galleguita/ Tutankhamen – The Chieftains
Mood Indigo – Ella Fitzgerald feat. Oscar Peterson
Cavatina, Cavatina – Craig Ogden

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April 14, 2023 · 9:18 pm

Purple flowers, Dickeyville #4

Lucy’s Easter Flowers
Dickeyville, Maryland
9 April 2023

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April 9, 2023 · 7:33 pm

And yet

Much like any morning
garbage dumped
coffee made
coffee consumed
dishwasher runs
dryer spins

and yet

with the dawn
comes anew the awareness that
grace abides
hope abounds
love lives
mercy multiplies
justice beckons

for Christ is risen,
risen indeed,
making this day,
and every day,
holy.
Alleluia.

8:45 AM, 9 April 2023
There is poetic license at work here. The closest I came to seeing dawn this Easter day is in some photos of the sunrise service at Second Presbyterian Church in Baltimore that my son Eric took. One of those photos appears in this post.

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April 9, 2023 · 7:21 pm

Stop the Execution of Louis Gaskin

On Wednesday of this week, three days after Easter, Louis Gaskin is set to be executed in Florida. Killing Mr. Gaskin will not undo his crime. All efforts are being made to get the courts to stop the execution, but as always, we must work and hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. Read more about the case and sign the petition, here.

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