Music

Music I like and music I make

Irish Blessings

Irish Blessings

St. Patrick’s Day celebrations are about wearing green clothing, drinking green beer, and watching parades. It is the day when everyone is Irish. I’m only a quarter Irish and have never been to Ireland so I don’t know a whole lot about Ireland either. What I know is that St. Patrick was British not Irish…

Music Escape Hatch

Music Escape Hatch

Piano My fingers Are they really mine? Disembodied Not as strong  Or limber As they were Well-worn sheet music As familiar  As my daily route And yet The surroundings  Have changed I start and stop Play Waiting for neurons To remember To click For muscle memory To kick ass The fingers reach  And stroke keys…

Background Noise

Background Noise

Squared The cube The cube Not a science fiction entity But an office reality Desk after desk In tick tack toe pattern And the experts say, “Open office design increases teamwork and sharing” Now that is science fiction… A body leans On my half wall Peering at my screen I twitch “Can I help you?”…

Shiny Things

Shiny Things

I am over on Vision and Verb today, spouting my warped version of poetry. And as an added bonus here, I thought I’d share the music video I ran across at Terri Windling’s blog the Drawing Board. Very cool artistic work on the video…

Catching Up On Life

Catching Up On Life

I went to a comedy and music show put on by MPR almost two weeks ago, but other happenings were more immediate so I’m just getting around to looking at the photos I took there now. Sandra Bernhard and Rosanne Cash were the main guests of the show.  Sandra was true to form and full…

Being Part of the Group

Being Part of the Group

I’ve ridden Luke a couple times this week and will ride again tomorrow, all in preparation for riding in a dressage test clinic on Saturday. Neither Luke nor I are quite sure what I was thinking when I signed up for this. As you can see, Luke is a bit less than enthusiastic about the…