Ferlinghetti – I Am Waiting | Video Worth Watching
As the year end approaches, it’s seems natural to reflect on where we’ve been, where we’re going and why we are here. Ferlinghetti has given us one perspective with his “I Am Waiting” from A Coney Island of the Mind. [Read more…]
Walking In the Air – from ‘The Snowman’ | Video Worth Watching
There’s something wintry in the high clear vocals by Peter Auty for Howard Blake’s “Walking In the Air” from the 1982 animation The Snowman. I’ve cued up the four minute portion for this song, but for those who are curious, after the excerpted clip plays, the entire animation can be viewed by clicking on the “replay” button in the lower-left corner of the YouTube frame. [Read more…]
The Story of Felix Navidad
Merry Xmas to all and to all the Good Fight!
by Victor Payan
Not so long ago
And not very far
Lived a jolly young man
With a lowrider car
His name it was Felix
Navidad was his name
And he was known round the world
So great was his fame
He was just a man
Just like you or like me
He couldn’t fly through the air
Or walk on the sea [Read more…]
A Chicken Carol
It was the week before Christmas
and all through the house
there wasn’t a sound
‘cept for that damn mouse.
Then out in the garden
there arose such a clatter,
I shuffled out in my bathrobe
to see what was the matter! [Read more…]
BeauSoliel – Papa St. Nick (Is Comin’ Up the Bayou) | Video Worth Watching
How about a little spicy fare for the Christmas holiday. Here’s the Cajun group BeauSoleil with a tune about Papa St. Nick. He’s got a mountain of toys on a red bateau. Papa St. Nick is comin’ up the bayou! [Read more…]
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘Hamilton’ Crosses the Pond, Opens in London | Video Worth Watching
In celebration of Opening Night on Thursday, December 21, the #HamiltonLDN company created a digital #Ham4Ham mashup of a few of their favorite UK and Hamilton songs! Arrangement: Richard Beadle. #RiseUp [Read more…]
For Susan L. Taylor: The Green Fuse Drives the Flower
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees
Is my destroyer.
Dylan Thomas
Susan Taylor began writing columns about gardening for the San Diego Free Press in February of 2014. The biography that she provided to append to the end of her articles is quintessential Susan—direct, spirited and humorous. It deftly conveys details of an intriguing past, establishes the commitments of her heart and intellect and reflects her whimsical optimism about the future.
Susan L. Taylor, a San Diego native daughter, digs politics, urban agriculture, dogs and local beaches. Forever grad student of Latin America history, she speaks Spanish, Portuguese and teen-speak to the two boys still at home. Supports guerrilla, community and home gardening. Dreams of a beachhead along the Baja California coast and hopes that the grapes she grows will someday taste like red wine. Susan supports the restoration of Chollas Creek and is still a natural blonde.
Susan wrote enthusiastically received gardening columns for San Diego Free Press that drew upon her expertise as a certified Master Gardener in the county. Her columns were anything but generic in content or tone, which is to say that they were pure Susan. Her articles were peppered with exclamation points and we left most of them in because they so perfectly expressed her perpetual wonder and delight with the vegetative world. “Remember, the best day to plant a tree was twenty years ago, and the second best day is today!” [Read more…]
Geo-Poetic Spaces: From a City Called San Diego
I was here
before anyone called me San Diego
Before Cabrillo
named me San Miguel
and declared me a Spanish possession
Before the Kumeyaay and Yuman
found sustenance
along my mountains and shores [Read more…]
A Walk With Brother Martin
Editor Note: This is the final article in the four-part series Brother Martin: From Logan Heights to a Trappist Abbey
Brother Martin devoted his Wednesday morning to giving my companion José Goytia and me a tour of the grounds of the Trappist Abbey of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Oregon. This time he was dressed in his monk robes. He showed us the dining room with its beautiful wooden tables. [Read more…]
Brother Martin: After the War, the War Within
While he was readjusting to living in Logan Heights, Brother Martin was having a war inside himself about what he wanted to do with his life. He spoke with priests and nuns about his confusion. He taught catechism and led a Boy Scout troop for boys from Saint Augustine. He seemed to have one foot in the religious world and the other in regular everyday life. He was unsure if he wanted to follow a religious life or continue on the path he was on. [Read more…]
Brother Martin Goes to War, Longs for Peace
Brother Martin remembers that Australia of 1943 looked like America of the 1920s. He was assigned to the 1st Calvary Division in a camp located near a suburb called Strapfine. He was an assistant to the “BAR Man.” (BAR stands for Browning Automatic Rifle, which was a big gun which fired 20-round clips with 30-caliber ammunition.) The BAR Man, Dick Chase, was an Episcopalian from Minnesota. He says they had some interesting discussions about their two faiths.
He celebrated his nineteenth birthday on an LST (Landing Ship, Tank) going from Australia to Oro Bay, New Guinea, on the way to a planned invasion of the Admiralty Islands. [Read more…]
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