 Tales from France – Tete de Veau – bone out!On our recent trip to France, to celebrate our Granddaughter’s Cheering Your Kids Without Spoiling ThemBelow is a guest post from a great writer Melanie Hargrave. Me Book Review: It’s All About RelationshipBefore I got up the nerve to ask my wife on our first date near Piglet’s Salada da Favas – Broad Bean SaladMy original idea was to try Chica’s recipe of Broad Beans with Success – What Can Contribute To It?Last post we were discussing the roll of play and success. I aske A Chance Encounter with Jamie BeckwithIt was my lucky day recently! While shopping for a client at Rena |
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 “Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.” Ludwig van Beethoven What’s your mondegreen? A mixed bag of musical instruments A mondegreen is the mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase as a result of near-homophony, in a way that gives it a new meaning. It most commonly is applied to a line in a poem … Continue reading: Musings: What Is Your Mondegreen?  Here we are…. just a day away from Christmas. While there are a lot of things I enjoy about the holiday season, one of my VERY favorite things is Christmas music. LOVE IT! I might be not within the normal range on this. (Normal is a subjective word in most instances with me.) Here in Kansas … Continue reading: Music Helps Put the Merry Into the Season  As we sit here among the millenials And the hip hop happy nexters a velvet fog comes floating down From the speakers hidden up there, startled, delighted, suddenly thirty-five years younger, I look happily around, expecting other faces to register the same ecstatic recognition, but Torme is not Mogen David, Mel doesn’t even run in that crowd he’s Dom Perignon in a Waterford flute, which explains … Continue reading: How Could I Forget Mel Torme?  “Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.” Pandit Ravi Shankar RIP Pandit Ravi Shankar: Legendary Sitar Maestro… Pandit Ravi Shankar – Raga Asa Bhairav Pandit Ravi Shankar & Anoushka Shankar – Raga Anandi Kalyan Pandit Ravi Shankar was a gifted musician and composer whose expertise on the sitar, and powerful, evocative … Continue reading: RIP Pandit Ravi Shankar: Legendary Sitar Maestro…  “Music makes us want to live. You don’t know how many times people have told me that they’d been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That’s the power music has.” Mary J. Blige Music Musings: Live Your Life… Yuna Yuna … Continue reading: Music Musings: Live Your Life…  This past weekend I attended the Nashville Drum Show. If I had to describe this event in one word, it would be LOUD. Imagine a room with a cement floor, cinder block walls, tin roof, and hundreds of drums and drummers. Even the sales reps were wearing earplugs. It was difficult to talk during the show, … Continue reading: Life Lessons From The Drum Show |
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