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Month: April 2016
Field of Dreams
National Anthem Petco Park Padres vs Diamondbacks 4/17/16, Military Opening Day.
Today is sunny and 80 degrees F with a breeze off San Diego bay just across the street. It’s a good day for baseball.
I love the game and I appreciate the charachter I gain from the lessons of it. Each season, each home stand, each game and each bat is a new beginning. Patience, it takes patience, focus, skill, vision, determination, attention, confidence and accuracy. There is humor, dedication, respect, camaraderie, laughter, disappointment, surprise, applause, and groans.
I learn from the sport. I grow.
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Disturbingly beautiful
I’ve rather enjoyed this tune by Tame Impala on the car stereo the past few months since its release. I hear it often on Sirius XM Spectrum.
Today I decided to pull up the video and give it a post. You know spice up the blog with some tunes. Well this will spice it up alright. Wow …what an unexpected video. It tells the story of the lyrics in a disturbingly beautiful way. Which after a second, actually third, viewing I’m realizing mirrors the lyrics relationship to the music that conveys them.
Well done Tame Impala, I’m finding that as I grow older and wiser ‘the less I know the better’ is often sage advice.
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Fearsome Yogi
I’m coming upon two years since I started yoga. Here is a pic from one of my very first classes that I featured here on this here blog thingy as one of me very first posts:
Fearsome does Yoga May 2014
I’ve come a long way since this photo but don’t worry as I’m no where near the Beard of the Day from earlier today. Fearsome has come along way as well. At one point last spring when I would go upside down into a headstand or handstand he would fall down over my eyes. Back in October he had that huge hedge trimming and slimmed down to his streamlined business look. Fearsome being the go getter he is, is growing back at a respectable pace.
As I lay here preparing for a nights slumber I contemplate what yoga does for me, what it means to me. I find yoga incredibly relaxing. Even though I often break a nice sweat, I’m relaxed. The breathing, the stretching, the focus, the challenge all work together to bring clarity. Yoga takes strength, yet it builds strenght through the practice of it without my realizing just how much strength it is building. My abdomen is stronger that it has ever been and I’ve always been into some form of excercise. My flexibility is beyond my expectations and without feeling like I’m pushing myself to achieve it.
I will continue yoga. I will commit to adding to the number of classes I take as I believe it is doing me good. I feel great. I’m stronger yet more flexible. I relax, concentrate, focus, let go and control all at once. Sometimes I leave class feeling like I’ve had a massage, but yet I’m sweating from all the activity.
As most of you know when I contemplate I take the definition of what I’m contemplating and mull it over…
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Rule 62
A big thank you to Dr. Spo for alerting us to this one.
Mondays are good for a little humor to get the week off on the correct foot. Fearsome believes that one should never ever take ones self too seriously.
These photos of babies with beards not only raises the bar for the hirsute goals of our offspring, but also gives us pause to begin the week with a chuckle of lightheartedness.
Simply click HERE to be directed to the original article by James Cave over on The Huffington Post.
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Thank you Bruce Springsteen
The Boss stands with equality again. We knew he was a man of quality and honest good morals back when he recorded this song for the groundbreaking film Philadelphia.
Today he cancelled a concert scheduled for this Sunday in Greensboro North Carolina.
No one should be so discriminated against that is living a life where their body of birth didn’t fit who they were and now that their body does resemble who they are….they are left with no bathroom to use in public. No one. Nor should a state government take away protections in place in localities only to mandate discrimination.
Mr. Springsteen is taking a stand that must be taken. I fully support him. I will stand with him by buying some of his tunes on iTunes today. Will you join me?
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Thank you Debra!
For She has bestowed the fabulous …
to Fearsome!
He is humbled. Have you ever seen a Beard blush? I could feel him blushing today when he got the news.
So we will answer a few questions, some of them dating back to before Fearsome’s emergence.
- What does music mean to you?
Music is is one of the gifts of being human. It is art. Audible art. My interpretation of art is expressions that move us. Expression that stirs emotions, calms, enlivens, comforts, disturbs, enlightens, envelopes and frees. Music gives us expansion and enriches the human experience of life. It is communication, but communication at a higher moving level that has the power to reach deep within us and stir us. Music is an art where the talented composer allows the performing artists to add their own brush strokes of understanding to influence his/her work. Gerswin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” moves me, motivates me and gifts me with beauty each time I hear it.
2. What is your first music related memory?
Dad playing Neil Diamond on his stereo. My father was an audiophile who always had the best stereo equipment and speaker systems that he could afford on his middle class income. Neil Diamond was always a favorite of his. He liked to play his stereo loud, rattle the windows loud. I spent many an evening trying to go to sleep after my mother tucking me in with the sound of my fathers music blaring from down the hall. My first memories date back to the late 1960s. While “Sweet Caroline” came in at one of billboard’s number five and is Diamond’s most remembered hit from 1969, it’s Diamond’s “Holly Holy”, which made it to number six that year, that is burned into my memory and my musical first. “Holly Holy” is actually a much richer and more intense piece of music than its more popular counterpart from that year.
3. What was the first album you ever purchased yourself?
The first album I ever purchased for myself was Led Zeppelin’s Houses of the Holy. I saved and saved up for that through doing chores for my mom. I had to earn my allowance. I thank my parents for that lesson in values. I was eight. Work hard, save, reap benefits. My older brother had that album and I loved it. He wouldn’t let me play his so I had to buy my own. I still have it to this day. It’s in great condition. It’s condition I attribute to my parents for also teaching me to take care of what you work hard for and it will last you a lifetime. It truly has. It is still one of my favorite pieces of music ever produced. The whole album is one piece. Led Zeppelin, in my opinion, were masters of their art and their music is magnificent. This tune, “The Ocean” closes the album with a moving climax and rocking finish…’oh so good!’
4. What is the latest music you purchased?
“Every Day Feels Like Summer With You” from the Shaun the Sheep soundtrack. This tune grabbed me from the first moment I heard it when the movie opened. It’s a feel good tune. I’m a feel good guy. I truly believe that you get what you focus on…. If you focus on the bad shit in your life or in others, you get more bad shit…. On the other hand if you are grateful for what is right and focus on that, you will get more of what is right and is fabulous. Good thoughts create good things so I choose to fill my life with things that make me feel good. Call me Pollyanna cause I’m proud of being one. As soon as I finished watching the movie a few weeks ago I wrote a post about it and bought the tune. I listen to it almost daily.
5. What is the very last song you listened to before writing this post? Be honest!
Blue Oyster Cult’s “I’m Burning for You”. I read these questions just before I left for my evening meeting (some of us sober dudes go to meetings) so when I parked my car I took a picture of my dash to prove what tune I was a rocking to on my drive home….
My dashboard, as you can see Ozzy’s Boneyard on Sirius XM was my station tonight …as it often is.
…and now for the tune….caution as it’s quite the 1981 throwback…it’s actually good driving music.
Now I get to nominate some bloggers for their own Music and Words Award!
I nominate these fabulous bloggers below and congratulate them on this prestigious award. I can’t wait to see their posts!
Eric,
DavidFinchRN @thereisanotherwaytolive
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Home awaits
At this very moment I sit here:
View from my seat in the United Club at Dulles.
….and I am on my way here:
Patsy, Virgil & Mitzi waiting for me on the couch. (Photo just taken and text to me by The Better Half)
I love the journey that is life!
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