For Day 17, I went with the Writer’s Digest April PAD Challenge prompt, which was to write a swing poem…
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Morning at 33-1/3 RPM (a poem)
Written while listening to a Jackie Gleason box set I picked up at a thrift store for 99 cents… Continue reading
Music for a sunny day
Yes, it is still February, but, just like February 2014, there are plenty of sunny days to be had. While I am not one of those folks who suffer from SAD (seasonal affective disorder), there is something about bright sunlight coming in through the windows that lifts my mood and gives me extra energy. That, in turn, influences the music I feel like listening to.
With that in mind, here is a brief list of my favorite music to listen to on sunny days: Continue reading
Lifelong Learning
I have recently come to the conclusion that I have become a lifelong learner. Continue reading
Q&A: What is Tinty Music?
On to my musical past…
My lifeline to you (a poem)
The September 20th prompt in The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts For Your Writing Practice, by Kelli Russell Agodon & Martha Silano, is to write a short poem about a favorite item, using Donald Hall’s ‘The Things’ as inspiration. I chose to approach the subject a different way, focusing on the catalog of emotions that is my ever-changing music collection. Continue reading
27 November 2009
Happened upon this today while going through a personal project from a few years ago. If I’m recalling correctly, it’s from a day when I was driving a few blocks from home while listening to Ruby Throat. It had rained the day before, but this particular day was sunny (or perhaps cloudy yet warm). As sometimes happened in that particular neighborhood, the heat from the sunlight caused steam to rise from the wet pavement. Continue reading
Plundering the Archives #4
Sometimes, it’s hard to let go.
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Plundering the Archives #3
Though it sounds like such a terribly self-important thing to say, Meditations on the Inescapable Self is my great lost work. Continue reading
Plundering the Archives #2
In November 1994, the Tinty Music CD (Weightlessness: Of Contemplation and Distraction) that had been so many months in the making was finally done. The end result wasn’t exactly what I had envisioned when I started the project, but it was something that I felt good about putting out into the world. Continue reading
Ordinary Average Thoughts 