Autumn Story – chalkboard animation
An evening pause:
Tag: entertainment
Yanni – Nostalgia
An evening pause:
Loreena McKennitt – The Stolen Child
An evening pause: William Butler Yeats’ poem, The Stolen Child, set to song.
Away with us he’s going,
The solemn-eyed:
He’ll hear no more the lowing
Of the calves on the warm hillside
Or the kettle on the hob
Sing peace into his breat,
Or see the brown mice bob
Round and round the oatmeal-chest.For he comes, the human child,
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
From a world more full of weeping
than he can understand.
Pu’u Kalena on Oahu
An evening pause: Hiking Pu’u Kalena, the second highest peak on the island of Oahu, Hawaii.
New York Mets – September 24, 1969
An evening pause: In 1969 the lowly New York Mets, doormats in the National League from the moment the team was created in 1962, came out of nowhere to win the pennant and the World Championship of baseball. Forty-two years ago tonight I and my friend Lloyd attended the game in which the Mets clinched first place in the National League Eastern Division. Below is video showing highlights of the game plus the final out, with the crowd pouring onto the field. Though you can’t see me, I am in that crowd, jumping for joy at this most unlikely sports miracle. There was no rioting, only happy fans chanting “We’re number one!” in exuberant disbelief.
And I still have that small piece of turf from Shea Stadium, collected on that night, proof that the unexpected and improbable is always possible.
Moody Blues – Forever Autumn
An evening pause: For the arrival of fall.
Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers – Follow the Fleet
An evening pause: From the 1936 film Follow the Fleet
Clark Jaman – a song from Shakespeare
An evening pause: Words by Shakespeare, one of Feste the clown’s songs from Twelfth Night, Act 2, scene 4. Music by Clark Jaman, done, as he says, “for a school project.” Very nice.
John McDermott – Voyage
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Bjork – It’s oh so quiet
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Gordon Lightfoot – Canadian Railroad Trilogy
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Walking on water
An evening pause: Walking on water. As the youtube website explained, “They filled a pool with a mix of cornstarch and water made on a concrete mixer truck. It becomes a non-newtonian fluid. When stress is applied to the liquid it exhibits properties of a solid.”