Category: USA
Green on Liberty
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Morning at Tybee
Watching the pelicans glide just above the surface of the ocean, an extension to the waves.
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Go slow … and protect our manatees. Georgia’s.We tend to be pretty possessive in these parts …
(idle = au ralenti)
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sky at sunset
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On Tybee time
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definition of “delay”
Unlike the French terms “délai” and “délais” which refer to an expected or planned time frame, the English words delay and delayed mean being late.
Here’s an illustration of a ‘less than an hour” delay:
Once announced, it was, in fact, not only on time but … ahead of the ETA!
Savannah, as you can see, was appropriately named:
There are rivers winding in and out and around.
So it’s probably wonderful to have a boat down here. If you manage to find the time to use it … And if you don’t have a boat, it’s still nice to have a dock on the marshes.
And if you don’t happen to have your own private dock … you’re probably not getting mosquito bites either … but that won’t prevent you from using the one at Lazaretto Creek or at Tybee.
where you can go fishin’ … or crabbin’ … or just make friends and keep an eye open for dolphins …
All you really need is time. So don’t … delay.
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This land … by Woody.
Folk music is all about folk – people, family, friends, you and me and everyone else; individuals coping with life’s everyday cares. Happy ones and sad, hard and sweet.
Folk music provides us with a country’s history because it’s the people’s history … and how can we understand the present without a feeling and grasp of the working people who’ve lived before us, built our railroads, plucked our cotton, suffered the dust storms and prayed for rain? Brought us to where we are? Not only with their successes … but also their failures. Folk is about “everyday” people in touch with their emotions, their strengths, their weaknesses, their environments.
American folk music is so incredibly rich that I’d like to introduce you to a few tunes, stories, people and songs. Far from today’s global political stage, these songs are rooted in everyday experience. Pionners. Immigrants. Roamers.Expressions of work, love, family, discovery.
Without the advent of sound recording, they’d be lost. Fortunately, there are many many recordings and thanks to a fellow whose name was Moses Asch, the Folkways Collection was a lifetime project to guarantee their perennity … and I, at least, am grateful to him and his team for their work. Vanguard Records, too, as well as major and minor labels produced artists whose souls are still very alive.
Folk music is for listening. And here’s one of the classics: Woody Guthrie, of course.
PS.The Folkways Collection put about 2 dozen podcasts on the net for free downloads on iTunes (and maybe elsewhere!) … and this leads me to one of my father’s, bless his soul, favorite sayings:
“A word to the wise is sufficient.”
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Clint Eastwood talks about Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Moviemakers have set their cameras here. Here’s why:
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Singin’ in the Rain – Lyrics
The Lyrics
Singin’ in the Rain. Gene Kelly. Masterpeice.
I’m singing in the rain
Just singing in the rain
What a glorious feelin’
I’m happy again
I’m laughing at clouds
So dark up above
The sun’s in my heart
And I’m ready for love
Let the stormy clouds chase
Everyone from the place
Come on with the rain
I’ve a smile on my face
I walk down the lane
With a happy refrain
Just singin’,
Singin’ in the rain
Dancin’ in the rain
Dee-ah dee-ah dee-ah
Dee-ah dee-ah dee-ah
I’m happy again!
I’m singin’ and dancin’ in the rain!
I’m dancin’ and singin’ in the rain…
….
Why am I smiling
And why do I sing?
Why does September
Seem sunny as spring?
Why do I get up
Each morning and start?
Happy and head up
With joy in my heart
Why is each new task
A trifle to do?
Because I am living
A life full of you.
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Newsletter July 1, 2010
On my way back from visiting Michel in the hospital yesterday, I was headed for the Marais from the Porte d’Orléans and realized that I was driving up … (or down?) Bd. St. Michel.
Now this is a very well-known name, both in its masculine and the feminine forms, made especially famous in a song by the Beatles way back when!
The French name for a man is pronounced something like “ME” + “SHELL.” This is unlike the Anglo-Saxon “Michael” which, as in Michaelangelo, is pronounced “MY” “KELL”
Oddly enough, the Anglo-saxon pronunciation of Michelle … sounds almost the same in the two languages. Maybe the accent is different.
While waiting for the light to change from red to green … at a stoplight at the corner of Bd. St. Germain and Bd. St. Michel, I took a couple of photos through the windshield.
They’re posted on today’s Paris Savannah Connection.
Happy July First. Happy Summer.
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