Our year in photos – 2020
Let’s start our “year in photos” collection with a Zoom screenshot of our Mother’s Day brunch!
Author: DJB
Doc Watson’s Deep River Blues
The line from Doc Watson includes prestigious musicians and basement buskers. Here’s a tune they all love.
Did you have Dolly Parton helping to fund COVID-19 vaccine on your 2020 bingo card?
“Of course she did” was my response when news broke that Dolly was an investor for a COVID vaccine.
Have the courage to defy convention
The comment that “my father did the ironing and my mother did the finances” led down a new path.
Traditional base, new directions with Solas
A dive into why Solas is my favorite Irish band, even if they are on indefinite hiatus.
No job is worth the condemnation of history these enablers will endure
History will find those who put personal gain and short-term power above service to community and country.
We have to own up to our culture if we want to change it
Ibram X. Kendi’s “How to Be An Antiracist” is a powerful reminder of our personal responsibilities in fighting racism.
A new day
The road a country takes to decency and respect for the rule of law is long.
The aching, soulful, and optimistic music of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings
Two musicians who “discover a new emotional urgency in songs about the slow, challenging, beautiful heat of living.”
Let’s dream again
Moving towards a place and time where belief in our abilities to achieve a noble common purpose defeats the fears that turn hate into loathing.
MORE TO COME... 