Mischa Maisky is my favorite cellist in the world. Listen to this beautiful piece written by Max Bruch and you’ll understand why.
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Mo Ghille Mear (My Gallant Hero) – Choral Scholars of University College Dublin
I love this choral group. All of their songs are wonderful!
An Old French Tune (by Georges Brassens) Performed by Pomplamoose
Ah, yes! This feels good—like Paris in Spring (though I’ve never been there, Spring or otherwise).
Eva Cassidy Sings Autumn Leaves
Perfect for the season!
Datesville, Chapter 4
Datesville: Out of the Land of Bondage! Chapter 4 — The Hideous Depression After my return from Central City and a brief, two-day visit with Mom, I fly back to New York. And as agreed, I call Todd Willingham a couple of days […]
Progress Report
A couple of weeks ago, I posted that I wanted to begin painting again. I used to paint a lot but in acrylics and most of my work then was semiabstract in terms of subject matter. But I got an urge to paint again, […]
Ana Vidovic Classical Guitar Concert at St. Mark’s in San Francisco
Datesville, Chapter 3
Datesville: Out of the Land of Bondage! Chapter 3 — A Body in Central City I’m Scotched up and stewing in the back seat. Mister Chuba guns the engine, and the cab barrels south on the turnpike, away from downtown, toward what they […]
Datesville, Chapter 2
Datesville: Out of the Land of Bondage! Chapter 2 — The Tinpot Emperor Purcell and I have lunch in what he calls the “Emperor’s Dining Hall”. It’s only one of three dining rooms in the apartment, but it’s the most lavished and expensively […]
Today’s Rambling — Painting
About fifteen years ago, I was a painter. I lived in the Northwest at that time and made semiabstract paintings which I sold to, mostly, a limited number of collectors that I knew. I never sold enough work to live on my painting alone, […]
Datesville, Chapter 1
Datesville: Out of the Land of Bondage! Chapter 1 — The Bermuda Hotel My legal name is Henry Thakur but I’m currently going by “Harvey Orange” as a pen name for a couple of different reasons. It’s complicated so I’ll try to explain […]
A Book That Changed My Life
Please allow me to recommend a revolutionary book that changed my attitude and relationship with the Earth. The book is: The One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka. It was first published in English (I believe) in 1978. This small book is about how Mr. Fukuoka […]
The History of an Idea — Part 3
So I had this dream one night—a very vivid dream—of a dystopian setting in which people were attending a local music concert (see Part 1). I remembered it very clearly when I woke, and it bothered me. Its setting was reminiscent of what I […]
Links You May Enjoy!
So today, I updated my LINKS page in the menu above and added a number of new sites. Check them out! Here’s what the page now looks like: Blogs And Other Links You Might Enjoy and Use! Lopamudra Bandyopadhyay-Chattopadhyay: Poet & Novelist Notes From […]
