Something totally new for me. Lately I’ve been exploring – because shamefully it does feel like a world away from me – hip hop music and culture. Fascinating. I had always dismissed it but I guess I finally learned that it’s stupid to dismiss something without knowing anything about it… so… This song … I’m …
The sun has just broken through the clouds, so now this song doesn’t seem so topical anymore… but it remains beautiful and I hope you’ll like it too: Dar Williams: The beauty of the rain… Happy Friday.
First ‘music Friday’ of the year… it’s only right that I play you one of my favourite songs ever. By the best. By The Boss… Wonderful. I’ve had this album since 1985. I remember cycling to the other side of the river to this tiny, dark, narrow and long record store full of music I …
They did it their magnificent way… My tree is arriving today. Can’t wait. I might be the only one here… I live with a bunch of Scrooges, didn’t you know?
A slipping down life (by Anne Tyler) Anne Tyler always gets to me. I read quite a few of her novels and at some point there’s always a line, a sentence that just cuts through you and plunges you into the book so that when you read the last page you feel dazed and confused …
… and breath… inhale tomorrow…. exhale yesterday… …this motherhood stuff sure is complicated sometimes… If you try to protect them… you’re a fun-sponge, if you let them be… you’re ignoring them. You need to be ‘there’ but not ‘there there’. It’s high diplomacy, iron fist in velvet glove, it’s heart breaking and life affirming …
Carrying on the blue theme… (raise your hand if remember ‘colour of the week’ in the old glorious days of blogging?)
… gosh has it really been a week since my last post? We’re back, I’m back, one boy is still away, two are here, we could almost resume normal proceedings… shall we? I went to a music concert. A real, live, country music concert… and it was brilliant. Kacey Musgrave. Do you know her? She’s …
Something a little different today… last night I went to a classical concert in Birmingham at the Symphony Hall. It was fabulous. They played Beethoven 7th Symphony which was amazing… he is my favourite classical composer and the second movement of this piece is simply magical. Make yourself a cup of tea and sit down. …
… it might be a few weeks too early for this, but it’s such a beautiful song…
while you're ahead... 