respecting my reward
I get a little insomnia sometimes, when something or somethings are stuck in my mind and letting them go doesn’t seem possible. It’s a combo of stress over business and […]
sitting shiva
Twenty-five years ago Mendelson Joe gave me a guitar, a Guild. It was small, he said it would be perfect for me, it has been. I didn’t have any interest […]
i guess you had to be there
Joe had a great dislike of God believers, religious preachers, though he did believe in the Earth. I think he might have considered the Earth as God. Frankly, doesn’t everything […]
porgy and bess
Apparently if an ant is removed from the colony it doesn’t live very long, not nearly as long as if it stays in it. It is like they are one […]
frank sweet, in memoriam
I didn’t collect things when I met him. I remember answering when he asked if would like a painting, by saying I tried living without accumulating stuff. He really wanted […]
is this downtown?
It was really nice meeting you yesterday. I think I found my answers.If music is not associated with stability why is it the one of the oldest art forms that […]
more joe thoughts
I went through a tough time twenty years ago following a break up and I was depressed and miserable and alone and isolated, 45 minutes past Hamilton, in the middle […]
what is the narrator trying to tell us
I want to collect songs sung from the view of characters that are not the singer. See if I can get the students to try their hands at it. you […]
stabs
Searching through Disney + for something interesting. I never saw the Hitchcock film starring Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren. It was awesome but sent me down an Anthony Perkins rabbit […]
respecting my reward
Had a beautiful exchange with Mendelson Joe today. I was relistening to his records in recent days and I think his last record, 2013’s Art is the Healer, is his […]