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It’s been a while since I’ve posted…
We’re going to be moving in the next few months, so my energy has been directed towards packing.
Still, there’s always time for music!
This premiered early this morning (Australian time).
Enjoy!
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Love For The Fur Babies
Another Goodbye…
Well, Australian music has had a rough time of it lately 😥
Yesterday, we said goodbye to another iconic voice – Olivia Newton-John. Another voice from my childhood…also one of the first (in my memory) of a singer with a definite Aussie accent.
My memories are mostly from the 70s and 80s, from Grease to the Xanadu/Physical era. I didn’t really know which song to pick for this post – the songs from Grease didn’t seem to fit…so here’s one from Xanadu!
Goodbye, Olivia.
You were magic!
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Once More, It’s That GISH Again
Another GISH Hunt week just gone – I think this is my fifth year?
It felt a bit low key this year, although I enjoyed it. Started off the week with a flu type thing, so I’ve only done six items…
Item 29 –
Make a book jacket. No, we mean a REAL book jacket.
This was hurried, not quite I wanted. I was feeling a bit rough and just wanted to start on something…I meant to update it with something better later in the week.
Item 52 –
Everyone needs a driver’s license to drive, and obviously there are lots of different kinds of licenses, but there is one that people often seem shy to share. Take a photo of a published poet showing us their Poetic License.
I am published – many years ago, in an anthology put out by a vanity publisher.
Item 161 –
TV shows get crossover episodes all the time, but we just don’t see enough Poetry Crossovers! Choose two of your favorite short, well-known poems from wildly different genres of poets and write the words on separate slips of paper. Then, rearrange the words to form a brand-new poem that creates the genre mash-up the poetry world has been yearning for. You must use all the primary words in your new creation, but you can add or remove conjunctions and articles as needed to make it flow.
Item 25 –
Son-flower.
One of favourites, and the quickest to do.
Note the eyeroll (my boys are familiar with GISH week now!)
Item 16 –
I (Misha) often make other people get tattoos, but this year I’m flipping the script and making you help me get one: Design a pointillism-style tattoo for my shoulder that incorporates a baby cheetah, a sockeye salmon and the words “wild and precious life” or something similar. The baby cheetah represents my son; the sockeye salmon, my daughter… and the phrase has deep meaning to me. I intend to use a mashup of the designs I like best, so give it all you’ve got. (Then, if you are so inclined, get a pointillist tattoo of three things that have deep significance to you — but you don’t have to do this part to get your Points.)
Another of my favourites! 😀
Item 121 –
Art is subjective, so there’s really no such thing as “bad” art in our opinion. Prove us wrong: create a piece of art so truly awful, it deserves to be in the Museum of Bad Art. The subject of your creation: a terrible, haunting, “big eyes” portrait of a character from Supernatural or another well-known pop-culture universe, in the style of Margaret Keane. But make it so bad, it’s kind of good.
Definitely not one of my favourites, but at least I got it done… it’s meant to be a character called Bobby Singer.
Well, that’s it for another year…just waiting for the sign up for next hunt.
Maybe it’s time now for an early night?
Vale
Another iconic voice from my childhood gone.
Thank you, Judith, for showing me how beautiful music could be.
Into The Stars
Another memorial post…
This one is for Nichelle Nichols, who played Lieutenant Uhura on the original series of Star Trek.
(It was very difficult to get an image that wasn’t copyrighted – this is the best that I could find…)
A trailblazer, an inspiration to many and, it seems, a lovely person as well.
I watched the original Star Trek as a child, and remember her as elegant, professional, unflappable – when the men were flailing about across the bridge of the Enterprise (60s special effects 😆 ), I remember her as being cool and calm.
Farewell, Ms Nichols.
May your onward journey be one of peace.
Roll On
Sometimes the world seems a little…too much.
Sometimes it’s easy to forget our roles in life – the possibilities we have of making the world a little better.
…and sometimes we could do with being reminded that we’re not helpless, with nothing to say!
Brings to mind some verses –
“But let justice roll down like waters,
and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.”
– Amos 5:24
And one of my favourites –
“He has shown you, O mortal, what is good.
And what does the Lord require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy
and to walk humbly with your God.”
– Micah 6:8
And if you still need cheering up, here’s one that came out today.
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Goodbye, Wilf!
…and, of course, many other characters over a nearly 80 year career.
Bernard Cribbins died yesterday. I mostly know him for playing Wilfred Mott in Doctor Who, but there were many roles over a long period of time. If you haven’t seen him in a role, then you’ve probably heard him!
Goodnight, Mr Cribbins. And thank you.
Of The Beautiful Rain
I’ve been enjoying the rain – it’s not too cold at the moment, and this type of rain seems to bring the day closer and open up the years to memory.
I wonder if that’s a universal feeling to rain?
There’s a certain nostalgia, a breath of childhood, to these kinds of day. There’s also a fleeting breeze of possibility, ready for the catching.
I’m not sure why – my childhood memories of rain tend to be more cyclonic… when I moved to England, I would find myself getting soaked at first. The rain I encountered there seemed to me to be so light that I wouldn’t need an umbrella. It was light, and soft, but also inexorable. I would find myself dripping without having noticed how wet it actually was, and somehow even wearing a raincoat didn’t seem to keep the damp out.
On the other hand, the first time my Babe and I came back to Australia for a holiday we travelled around the country a bit. While we were in Cairns it started to rain just before we were going out. He immediately put on a coat. I couldn’t understand it – up north, the rain tends to be warm, and the humidity unbearable. A coat just doesn’t make sense! He soon found that out 😆 but it was just a difference in understanding – in England you put on a coat to go out in the rain, whatever the season…
Thinking about nostalgia…
YouTube gives me suggestions for clips to play. Generally they’re based on what I’ve been watching recently, but sometimes it dredges up an old clip from years before. This is one that came up last night.
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As a Mum, this makes me sniffle a little.
My boys will be moving out in the next few months, and I am happy for them to go out there and live their lives. It does bring home, though, that all the plans for their childhood are no longer valid – too late for all the places we were going to go, and the things we were going to do. There’s a sadness to that, but also an understanding that you can’t do everything.
The window of opportunity to do better, to use time wisely, never really closes!
But, for today, I will watch the rain. Dream.
And remember.
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What To Do In The Shadow
…when you’re feeling down, what’s the quickest way to cheer yourself up?
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I remember this from the radio, many years ago. After the actual song came out, one of our local radio stations took it as their ad music (they replaced the “wo-o-ahh” bit with their name), so it was on air for a while, in one way or another.
This version makes me want to dance!
I also like to take random photos 😆
Here are some flowers I saw yesterday.
A winter bee? 😀
I hope you’re not in the shadows at the moment.
But, if you are, I hope that you can still see the flowers, and listen to the music!
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