Day #334: Summer Music

Today I am grateful for music that presents a defiant face to the impending winter: Endless Summer (The Beach Boys), Summer in Paradise (The Beach

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Day #327: Two Cellos

On a stormy day like this when the windows are covered with raindrops so thickly that we can’t see across the street, we take solace

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Day #302: Protest Songs

I am grateful for the people who write and perform protest songs. I think there’s tremendous power in songs that express the need for change

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Day #301: Happenstance

I am grateful for happenstance. Don’t you find it amazing that a bunch of things find a confluence and magically appear in your life? Today,

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Day #95: Joan Baez

This woman has been a lighthouse for me, casting her beacon on the craggy rocks of our challenging world by speaking to truth, social action,

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Day #94: Rio Nido

Good friends treated us to a night with Rio Nido at Crooner’s Lounge and Supper Club. It’s my favorite music venue, cozy and intimate. The

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Day #24: The Flower Duet

This duet, “Sous le Dome Épais,” known as “The Flower Duet” from the opera Lakmé, brings tears to my eyes. The music is exquisite. Written

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