Friday, June 13, 2014

Some odd observations about Cantor's loss.

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There were a couple of things on the New York Times editorial pages for Thursday, June 12 that I found interesting concerning the outcome...
Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Birds of the Beaverkill.

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Walking around the grounds of the house where we spent Memorial Day weekend , I saw many kinds of birds. More often than not, my attempts ...
Monday, June 09, 2014

Dai Bosatsu Zendo

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During our Memorial day weekend visit to the Beaverkill Valley our hostess suggested a tour of the International Dai Bosatsu Zendo Kongo-...
Tuesday, June 03, 2014

A weekend in the Beaverkill Valley.

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Thanks to the kindness of a neighbor, we were invited to spend Memorial Day weekend in this splendid house located in the Beaverkill Valle...
Thursday, May 22, 2014

The Monuments on Battle Hill, Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn

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Last week my wife and I, along with a friend, took a tour of some of the more impressive mausoleums in Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery ...
Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Planxty: "Raggle Taggle Gypsy/Tabhair dom do lámh"

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This is great stuff. I've loved Planxty (about whom I've posted before ) since I got a copy of The Planxty Collection at a little ...
Monday, May 19, 2014

Farewell to the old Tampa home.

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Last weekend we made a brief visit to Tampa, staying with friends across the street from the house that had been my parents' and my home...
Friday, May 09, 2014

It's May, and I may post again soon.

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Like Anglocat , I've found May, so far, to be a slow month for posting on my blog. My difficulties haven't been caused, like his, b...
Thursday, May 01, 2014

Coney Island Brewing Company's "Tunnel of Love Watermelon Wheat"

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IN WATERMELON SUGAR the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar. Richard Brautigan, In Watermelon Sugar ...
Sunday, April 27, 2014

Holocaust Remembrance Day

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As my friend The Rev. Nicholas Temple reminds me, the 24 hours that began at sundown today (Sunday, April 27) and end at sundown tomorrow...
Saturday, April 19, 2014

"In Your Easter Bonnet," Judy Garland and Fred Astaire

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I never saw the movie Easter Parade , which was made two years after I was born, but I've always imagined this Irving Berlin song being ...
Sunday, April 13, 2014

Mega-yacht Topaz arrives in New York

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On my morning walk I spotted this enormous yacht sailing from New York Harbor into the Hudson River. I guessed it must belong to some Russia...
Saturday, April 12, 2014

"All Glory, Laud and Honor."

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The traditional opening anthem for Palm Sunday services, as performed at King's College, Cambridge, last year. The tune is "St. The...
Tuesday, April 08, 2014

Bluegrass hot, cool, and dreamy

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I first knew of Tony Trischka as part of Country Cooking, whose album 14 Bluegrass Instrumentals  I acquired some thirty years or so ago. ...
Monday, April 07, 2014

Karen Shaw proves Mies and Browning right ...

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...at least in fifteen out of nineteen languages. Ms Shaw's (photo above) art is based on a simple premise that yields a plenitude ...
Monday, March 31, 2014

Mets lose opener. Is this a good sign? Probably not.

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At the treaty of Kilmainham Parnell threw it all away, It was the turning point in his career and he turned the wrong way, And the revo...