Last Sunday, we lost a true titan of the Hudson Valley—and planetary—music community: influential jazz composer, musician, and educator Karl Berger. Born in Germany in 1935, Berger and his wife, vocalist and educator Ingrid Sertso, immigrated to the US in the 1960s.…
I had the privilege of seeing and hearing Karl and his wife Ingrid perform live a couple of times. A great loss.
Nothing, not one thing, hurts us more — or causes us to hurt others more — than our certainties.
How to Love the World More: George Saunders on the Courage of Uncertainty
What does consumption look like when it is rooted in wonder and sacredness, in reverence and love?
–Jeff Golden, Reclaiming the Sacred
… this belief that hard work, skill, and intelligence are the main ingredients in success is wrong. Super-duper totally wrong. It turns out that hard work and skill have virtually nothing to do with a person’s financial standing.
–Jeff Golden, Reclaiming the Sacred
American society is built on an aggressive capitalism, which is as violent a way to engage peoples and the planet as there is. Violence is an intimate part of who we are. We can pass gun safety laws but they will be bandaids at best. A massive change in the culture is needed.
My first print out of 14 Days by the Sea, an accordion book I am getting ready for a show this summer. 100.5 inches when not folded. Three copies.
Red flag warning?…
Morrocan Lamb and Chickpea Stee
This is pretty easy and pretty flavorful.
By age two the average American starts to develop brand loyalties, and by age three we can recognize more than a hundred corporate logos, a number that grows to a thousand by the time we’re adults.
—Jeff Golden, Reclaiming the Sacred
The Ancient Origins of the Easter Bunny | History| Smithsonian Magazine
Happy chocolate bunny day!
Talk about unexpected juxtapositions, a big, burly, grey bearded man was in yoga class this morning. When I walked out to the parking lot there he was climbing on to a Harley. It would never have occurred to me that biker dudes and yoga went together.
From yesterday…
The overreach is painful in the moment but I am exuberant about it because it will be the downfall of the radical right. May the left be wiser in their deployment of power.
Quite a show going on at the Tennessee legislature. One Dem expelled. Likely the other two will be. Huge protest.
From yesterday…
Trump Is Depraved, Deranged, and Doing Real Damage - The Atlantic
I recently wrote that Trump was behaving like a mob boss. That comparison turns out to have been insulting to mob bosses everywhere
‘60 Minutes’ Was Right to Have on Marjorie Taylor Greene
Marjorie Taylor Greene believes that Democrats are “pedophiles.” Including Joe Biden. She said it. Right there on 60 Minutes on Sunday night for the whole country to hear. And when she said it, the interviewer, Leslie Stahl, responded only with “Wow,” and “Okay.”
My wife made me this lovely Norwegian Success Cake for my birthday cake, which I learned about right here on M.b!
My new saucier! Birthday present from my wife. Now I have to get saucey!
Now, if these were 58 flights of stairs in a building, I would never make it. Walking up the side of a mountain? Whole different story…
First birthday agenda item complete (assuming I get back down). Climb up to the Beacon reservoir.
Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
–Robert G. Ingersoll
Wisconsin voters elected Janet Protasiewicz to the Wisconsin Supreme Court by a ten-point margin.
Yes! Take that you gerrymandering mofus!
About the Supreme Court of Wisconsin judge election.
Right now it’s all about 45’s perp walk, but the Wisconsin Supreme Court Judge election is more important in mho…