It is Christmas! I saw the sun set from an old fort last night after swimming and a long walk on the bayside beach. Now we are at a palm-lined beach on the ocean, dreaming of authentic snow because it would so fit the season. Our snow is made of cotton. This version of “I … More All the Souls on Earth Shall Sing
I have spent today, my birthday, in one of the cities named after that holy savior. This is where you get the axé. Axé.
It is the weekend in Bahia, the last weekend of spring. People are trying out their fireworks for New Year’s Eve already. We must sing. Axé.
It is the weekend, so we will sing! I am singing that it was the last day of classes and that this has been one of the most interesting and by far the least terrible of all semesters I have been at my present institution. I am singing that next Friday I will be packing, … More Ponto de Iansã
We have not sung in some time, but now we are singing Revolution Rock. After twelve years of oppression I told the M.A.’s I had had it, I would no longer test from a commercial testing bank, I would make my own examinations and peg them to national standards. I said I was sure I … More Revolution Rock
I have not been posting very much because I no longer have reliable Internet to the house, and will not until April. I am not reading the news very much because the 60% budget cut higher education in this state is to absorb by 2012, is antithetical to my good mood. Work is going well, … More Jean-Pierre Rampal
Axé.
AZURE Gracias, violines, por este día de cuatro cuerdas. Puro es el sonido del cielo, la voz azul del aire. –Pablo Neruda (Chile, 1904-1973), El mar y las campanas. I would post a photograph of Isla Negra but I lack time. Axé.
Well it is Tuesday and I am at work, so I cannot search for music. I have had to make up my own. What do you think? Imitated Blues Well I’m leaving in the morning On that southbound train Well I’m leaving in the morning On that southbound train Listen everybody Hear what I have … More Professor Zero Imitates Some Songs
We are rocking and rolling down here in South Louisiana. The people in New Orleans want to secede from us so as to join the United States, but they just do not know how efficient we can be. Having spent the day hanging drywall and now being in the midst of studying, I wanted to … More Bring Me Li’l Water, Silvy
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