hello fellow hivians .... wassup??? so airtickets booked for a trip back to africa. still quite a while before we escapulate from this salubrious domain for a period of three weeks.... but i have already entered a team in a fairly lucrative bowls classic for while i am there. damn, i miss my lawn bowls and my bowls family and friends. great community.
the original and my all time favorite version of a much covered song....
again, gave me strength during challenging times in my youth... along with countless other tunes... {thinks...'hmmmm, maybe do a few more here'}
okay, a change of direction... was going to do with this past week and our upcoming trip... but ... let's go with the flow.
john denver was always there for me... simple easy stuff that a 12 and 13, 14 year old could listen to understand the values. again, this was 'comfort' music.... the rest of the time when feeling fine it was black sabbath, led zeppelin, bad company, uriah heep et al !!
right near the top.... young adult just shipped into the military to go fight a border war ... this lady (along with leonard cohen) was part of my sanity,,,, please welcome...
carole king ....
while listening to carole i was thinking about what used to be on the turntable on my old valve set gramophone... and i got gooseflesh when i remembered one of the tracks i used to listen to after arriving home from school to an empty house... and needing to start household chores, to get done before my father arrived home at four o'clock...
i decided to spare my millions of readers (and hopefully listeners) the entire choral symphony... but i used to put the piece on as loud as the technology of the time would allow...while going about my chores.... sanity indeed. just love that entire symphony.
thanks for stopping by , stay safe, stay free and make 2023 a year where you apply your mind and critical , common sense thought.