Weekend Music: John Prine with a Beautiful Arch-Top

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Look at this guitar. Just look at it.

An Austin City Limits classic. Since I’m thinking a lot about grandparenthood and mortality right now, it seems appropriate. I was ten years old when this was recorded.

I don’t actually wear my suit to dinner, but I do hammer nails in planks. And chain-smoke Camel cigarettes (I gotta cut those out). I don’t build houses, stores and banks, exactly. But I do build things. Social things.

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The Other “F” Word…. Taking Back the Meaning of Feminism

Posted on 01/31/2014 by Gene'O

– I’ll still do a roundup this afternoon, but just can’t wait six hours to share this. I’ve bumped the morning post to noon.

Drifting Through

“You gotta cry without weeping, talk without speaking, scream without raising your voice…”

-U2, Running To Stand Still

Be firm, but be polite. Be funny, but tactful. Be hard, yet soft. Be strong, yet understatedly so. Be direct, but soften it with a smile. Be smart, but don’t be too obvious about it. Run the board room, but do it with humility. Isn’t this what we’re taught? Those of us of the “fairer sex”? Not necessarily by our parents, although sometimes that is the case. But by society. We have surely come a long way in the last century. While there are still these unwritten rules by which polite society would like for us to abide, we are far better off than we used to be. Women are CEO’s of Fortune 500 companies. Women hold key positions in national government. We have opportunities and options and choices that women of…

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Music

Posted on 01/29/2014 by Gene'O

– This is why music is a real passion for me, rather than simply a pastime.

A Pondering Mind

Once upon a time, wasn’t singing a part of everyday life as much as talking, physical exercise, and religion? Our distant ancestors, wherever they were in this world, sang while pounding grain, paddling canoes, or walking long journeys. Can we begin to make our lives once more all of a piece? Finding the right songs and singing them over and over is a way to start. And when one person taps out a beat, while another leads into the melody, or when three people discover a harmony they never knew existed, or a crowd joins in on a chorus as though to raise the ceiling a few feet higher, then they also know there is hope for the world.

— Pete Seeger

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I will never not say thanks for an award.

Posted on 01/22/2014 by Gene'O

Raven King nominated me for a Liebster Award last week, and the timing wasn’t so good. Not only had I just accepted a Liebster a couple of days before, (which, if you have ever written a Liebster acceptance post, you will know takes a bit out of you), but this blog is sadly ineligible because it has more than 200 followers.

I appreciate the nod, though.

So here is a thank you. I am not nominating 10 other blogs for a Liebster, but I am happy to have been nominated for it by multiple bloggers.

Here are Raven’s ten questions and my answers. You should read them. By the end of it I am in full interview mode. They are good questions, and answering them was a pleasure.

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