George Harrison: Here comes the sun
So what’s the weather like in your neck of the woods? Das heißt: Wie ist das Wetter denn so bei Euch? Here comes the sun, here comes the sun, and I say it’s all right Little darling, it’s been a long cold lonely winter Little darling, it feels like years since it’s been here Here […]
Brevity is the soul of wit
Shakespeare knew it. We blew it. The SMITH Magazine Six-Word memoirs restored it. Went looking for trouble, found it. (sisterpoet) Took road less traveled, got lost. (MikeMogie) Washed-up, has-been, wannabe, seeks bright future. (Moo) These short bits go deep. Handed out to sentient adults, they’ll trigger personal narratives.
Fundraising
We went to the annual fundraiser for the island clinic last week. The old familiar players were there: Dedicated volunteers, in this case the Lutheran women’s group, who run the show; then the local businesses who donate products or services; then a mix of people close to the clinic, employed there or doing volunteer work, […]
Question: What are you conservative about?
http://annehodgson.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/conservative.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadI did something for the very first time in my life this past week, and you’re going to laugh at me. “What,” you’ll say, “it was her first time?” You see, I may be relatively radical and I do love to experiment and try things out, but there are […]
The tiller is an ax handle…
…and heaven help us if we lose this pin!
Makeshift
Everything on Drummond is makeshift. Metal things rust and break, lines fray, material rots and decays, so you are forever fixing things with spare parts and tools that themselves are anything but new. There’s a hardware store on the island that sells pretty much anything you need, and over on the mainland there’s a huge […]
The Police: Roxanne
This song is still amazing after over 30 years. Don’t you love early videos of great bands? They’re working their butts off jamming and the audience is sitting there like so many dead ducks. Roxanne, you don’t have to put on the red light Those days are over You don’t have to sell your body […]
