Tag: music

• Ambiguity, Passion, Excellence and Secrets

  “The Martyred” by Richard Kim, published by George Braziller, 1964 “The Amen Corner” by James Baldwin, 1954 I am not sure why I chose to begin reading Richard Kim’s “The Martyred” a few weeks ago. I guess it was partly because my wife has a paperback of his later book, “The Innocent” which I see…

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  January 17, 2025

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  christianity, faith, jesus, korea, music

• The Time and the Songs

  The election is now upon us. Which way it will go I don’t know and what the results for the US and the world might be one hesitates to predict. But as we get near the end of the campaign I find myself thinking of things ending, particularly autumn, still with more than a month…

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  November 2, 2024

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  autumn, barry-manilow, blog, fall, music, review, reviews

• Farewell, Margaritaville

  Jimmy Buffett died a few weeks ago and left a whole lot of people bereft. I don’t know if he will get it, but here’s my letter to him. I miss you Jimmy, already, and I had rarely thought of you in recent years. So you couldn’t honestly call me a real fan, I didn’t…

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  September 19, 2023

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  music

• Saturday thoughts

  It is ironic that I chose this time to start a blog. I meant it to offer an opportunity to share some things I had long considered and maybe some new ones. I had no idea I might wind up starting at the time of a terrible world crisis. Here I am all the same…

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  March 7, 2022

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  history, literature, movies, music, politics