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Category Archives: Music

  • John Hartford wrote one of the most touching and beautiful songs I’ve ever heard. It is so beautiful in fact that I often have to go long [...]

    “Gentle On My Mind”

    January 26, 2012
  • I can fairly say that I love both versions:

    A great version of Sting’s “The Hounds of Winter”

    December 20, 2011
  • Today is the first day this month that has really felt to me like December, like Winter and like the holiday season. We’ve been having [...]

    Winter Came Today (but will it stay?)

    December 18, 2011
  • I don’t know about you, but I grew up loving the Charlie Brown movies and television specials. A few years ago I picked up Vince [...]

    Charlie Brown

    December 14, 2011
  • Happy Thanksgiving. And here is the best Thanksgiving concert that I know of, “The Last Waltz”:

    Happy Thanksgiving

    November 24, 2011
  • I love this song and how it’s sung in both Flemish (Dutch) and French. Marieke Ay Marieke Marieke je t’aimais tant Entre les tours de [...]

    “Marieke”

    October 31, 2011
  • In 2000, I had the opportunity to go to the Czech Republic and Poland to study Holocaust history. I visited Prague, stayed in an old Nazi cavalry [...]

    “Sons of”

    October 31, 2011
  • The days are growing short and cold now. October is nearly done and soon it will really begin to feel like Winter here (we’ve been having a [...]

    When It Isn’t Sunny

    October 30, 2011
  • It is raining too much up here (again). This past Spring it basically rained and snowed from the end of March until June. We are having the same [...]

    Rain

    October 26, 2011
  • Lewis Thomas once published a collection of essays entitled Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler’s Ninth Symphony. In the title [...]

    Mahler’s 9th & Lewis Thomas

    October 25, 2011

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