Tuesday Open Thread
Last Night I lay in a restless bed,
A humdrum life pounding in my head.
When out of the night, came a mighty roar,
The river calling me back once more.My heart knows what the river knows,
I gotta go where the river goes.
Restless river, wild and free,
The lonely ones are you and me.Today I know your magic call,
Will lead me back to the canyon wall.
And the music in your rapids roar,
Make this boatman's song from his soul outpour.My heart knows what the river knows,
I gotta go where the river goes.
Restless river, wild and free,
The lonely ones are you and me.Tonight as on your banks I sleep,
Like a woman soft, you will sigh and weep.
And I will dream of a sweet warm kiss,
And a moonlit stream and the love I miss.My heart knows what the river knows,
I gotta go where the river goes.
Restless river, wild and free,
The lonely ones are you and me.Someday before I'm old and gray,
I'll find a woman who'll go my way.
She'll take the rapids strong with me,
And she'll blend her voice in a song with me.My heart knows what the river knows,
I gotta go where the river goes.
Restless river, wild and free,
The lonely ones are you and me.
[video:https://youtu.be/NzrMdIK6UwM?list=RDNzrMdIK6UwM&t=4]
"Benedicto:
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May your rivers flow without end, meandering through pastoral valleys tinkling with bells, past temples and castles and poets' towers into a dark primeval forest where tigers belch and monkeys howl, through miasmal and mysterious swamps and down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs, where deer walk across the white sand beaches, where storms come and go as lightning clangs upon the high crags, where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you --- beyond that next turning of the canyon walls."
-- Edward Abbey
By the end of his life, he was a writer, an anarchist and the informal founder of the radical environmental movement. The author of "Desert Solitaire," "The Monkey Wrench Gang" and other books had sparked new ways of thinking about the desert and the world. But it was his death that helped seal his legacy. When he died in Tucson in 1989, his friends loaded his body into the back of a pickup truck. Before anyone could stop them, they drove out of town, headed west, into the desert. They would bury Abbey in accordance with his wishes.
[video:https://youtu.be/eS6hOgCi1o4?t=4]
Wade in the water
Wade in the water
Children wade, in the water
God's gonna trouble the water
Who's that young girl dressed in red
Wade in the water
Must be the children that Moses led
God's gonna trouble the water
Wade in the water, wade in the water children
Wade in the water,
God's gonna trouble the water
Who's that young girl dressed in white
Wade in the water
Must be the children of the Israelite
Oh, God's gonna trouble the water
Wade in the water, wade in the water children
Wade in the water,
God's gonna trouble the water
Who's that young girl dressed in blue
Wade in the water
Must be the children that's coming through,
God's gonna trouble the water, yeah
Wade in the water, wade in the water children
Wade in the water,
God's gonna trouble the water
You don't believe I've been redeemed,
Wade in the water
Just so the whole lake goes looking for me
God's gonna trouble the water
Wade in the water, wade in the water children
Wade in the water,
God's gonna trouble the water
[video:https://youtu.be/9-hKDYQ6F54]
Oh people, look around you
The signs are everywhere
You've left it for somebody other than you
To be the one to care
You're lost inside your houses
There's no time to find you now
Your walls are burning
And your towers are turning
I'm going to leave you here
And try to get down to the sea somehowThe road is filled with homeless souls
Every woman, child and man
Who have no idea where they will go
But they'll help you if they can
Now everyone must have some thought
That's going to pull them through somehow
Well the fires are raging hotter and hotter
But the sisters of the sun are going
To rock me on the water nowRock me on the water
Sister will you soothe my fevered brow
Rock me on the water
I'll get down to the sea somehowOh people, look among you
It's there your hope must lie
There's a sea bird above you
Gliding in one place like Jesus in the sky
We all must do the best we can
And then hang on to that Gospel plow
When my life is over, I'm going
To stand before the Father
But the sisters of the sun are going
To rock me on the water nowRock me on the water
Sister will you soothe my fevered brow
Rock me on the water, maybe I'll remember
Maybe I'll remember how
Rock me on the water
The wind is with me now
So rock me on the water
I'll get down to the sea somehow
[video:https://youtu.be/Gpuw_y5zu_k?t=7]
I confess to actually never being much of a literal monkey wrencher. But back in 1978, at a time when my hopes and political enthusiasms sat near rock bottom following the trauma of George McGovern's tragic defeat, I somehow persuaded enough folks in Carrizo Springs (Texas) to write letters and sign petitions and make phone calls in order to flip our Democratic congressman's opposition to the Rio Grande Wild and Scenic River. This was key because the area in question was within Chick Kazen's district, giving him veto power. But we did it! All politics is local.
A Wilderness of Stone and Water
It is an irresistible playground where unruly rapids check your skills as a canyon wren’s definitive call cascades down ancient limestone cliffs. Below the chasm, the canyon’s raw beauty dances across mirrored water. While the primal nature of the river stirs hunger for spirited adventure, the river is also an undulant ribbon of wetland corridor and, against all odds, the lifeblood of the desert.
[video:https://youtu.be/XspKM1SnUhY?t=9]
[video:https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video;_ylt=AwrJ7JzO7m1a9UEAPgNXNyo...
1790 - The first purpose-built lifeboat was launched on the River Tyne.
1798 - The first brawl in the U.S. House of Representatives took place. Congressmen Matthew Lyon and Roger Griswold fought on the House floor. So is now really a time of "the worst polarization" ever?
1838 - Seminole Chief Osceola dies at Fort Moultrie in Charleston, South Carolina. Some say he died from a throat disease, others say malaria, but others say he dies of a broken heart.
1862 - The U.S. Navy's first ironclad warship, the "Monitor", was launched.
1909 - Organizer Saul Alinsky was born on this date in Chicago, Illinois. 
1919 - The Paris Peace Conference established the Commission on International Labour Legislation to draft the constitution of a permanent international labor organization, founding the International Labour Organization (ILO). Today, as part of the United Nations, the ILO is charged with drafting and overseeing international labor standards.
1933 - "The Lone Ranger" was heard on radio for the first time. The program ran for 2,956 episodes and ended in 1955.
1933 - Adolf Hitler was named the German Chancellor.
1968 - The Tet Offensive began as Communist forces launched surprise attacks against South Vietnamese provincial capitals.
1972 - In Northern Ireland, British soldiers shot and killed thirteen Roman Catholic civil rights marchers. The day is known as "Bloody Sunday."
2002 - Japan's last coal mine was closed. The closures were due to high production costs and cheap imports.
I don't usually appreciate what they call the Nashville sound. It waves way too much red white and blue. But today's featured artist hails from Music City. She has become a favorite of mine. Her voice reminds me of the fabulous Patsy Cline.
Enjoy the sounds of Mandy Barnett.
[video:https://youtu.be/eot9STOFXcw]
[Video:https://vimeo.com/116890728]
[Video: https://youtu.be/tV0Sso5NFPU ]
[video:https://youtu.be/IOdnGnaFjvE]
[video:https://youtu.be/GO2RJCLYfj4?list=RDGO2RJCLYfj4]
[video:https://youtu.be/Ku7k3u6QVvs]
[Video:https://youtu.be/A5u-gR4nbN0?t=11]
Comments
Thanks for the Edward Abbey video.
We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.
great conglomeration of ideas, history, poetry and music
I especially love the first song about the river
Thanks for this OT.
Marilyn
"Make dirt, not war." eyo
yeAah, those lines got thru to me too M
imagining the big muddy swiftly sucking my soul to the sea
Good morning, phillybluesfan, and thanks for the OT, poetry,
music. The Edward Abbey too, of course.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
From my several wingnut sites today
A new bacterial disease is on the rise and you need to prepare for it before it affects you or your loved ones. Don’t fall victim. Today’s sponsor at Health Sense Media has all the information you need to know right now, see below...
Always Safe, Always Prepared
Frank Mitchell
Founder
---------------------------------------
Dear Reader,
Have you heard of the terrifying “Klebsi Plague”?
It’s a deadly bacterial disease that has up to a 100% death rate in China…
And now strains are about to spread throughout the U.S.
Click here to see when it could get to your town.
Sincerely,
Susan White
Executive Director, Alliance for Advanced Health
P.S. This bacteria is especially deadly for seniors. If you’re over the age of 59, go here to find out the 1 thing you can do to save yourself. I urge you to act before this information is taken down by left-wing libnuts.
A snit at the end. I assume it's Klebsiella. Anti-immigrant and fearful of the Left.
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
Not to worry.
The Unholy Trilogy will effectively combat any health-related threat with their disruptions to care.
I'm so sick of this country.
That touches deeply, thank you for everything, whoever you are
(redacted personal information)
... compositions like this one make me love the people I lived with but never knew, people, which were "them" for me and I wanted to belong to.
I get emotional and grateful to find such words, sounds and thoughts out here. Some tearing up keeps me busy to prevent me from crying out right.
Thank You.
PS: I haven't been to the desert (just hopped over to the Great Canyon once), but I remember how sad a sight of a dried out wild river bed has made me feel in Hawaii and how solemn Waipio Valley was. It is still on my mind, especially now, after learning about Abbey and the Great Canyon and the Rio Grande. I have seen that valley up to its edge or official "tourist" entrance. Elderly native Hawaiians explained to me that it is a sacred place for them and that one should not enter the valley "just like that". So, I didn't. The silence embedding me from out of that valley is something I never forget.
https://www.euronews.com/live
Hiya, mimi. It's his second OT, he did last Tuesday as well. It
was also excellent.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
oh, I admit it openly, everything is beyond me,
for example I tried to go back til 2016 what was written here about Yemen. It would take me days to pull everything together and get the hang of the timeline and everything what happened in it.
I just don't know how people here do it. The more I try the less I want it. Thanks for pointing it out.
https://www.euronews.com/live
I am far from proficient of efficient, but over on the left, in
the site menu is "Essay List". If you click it, you get a chronological list of all the published essays. You can scroll through and at the bottom click next, or the page number of the next page, or some other number, if you think it is several pages ahead to what you re looking for.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
it's not efficient enough ... sorry (/ducking to avoid JtC )
... I guess that's because I ordered once 400,000 book titles according to the Liberary of Congress' Subject Classifications (or Categories) lists to build a website with many, many pages for each of the subject categories and sub categories in simple html. That made me a little "difficult" when it came to searches later on.
It was in the mid nineties. The National Press Building in Washington DC, in which I worked for my regular lowly-paid 8-5 bread and butter job, just had gotten wired as one of the first buildings in DC for high-speed broadband internet. The www was relatively new and everyone got exited among my co-workers. I got so exited, I started this project outside my regular job, which ... killed my spirit so to speak.
In Mondays' EB was an article from Nat Parry, who wrote a memorial piece for his father and he talked about those times in his article. (I loved Nat Parry's piece - such clear language and it pulled together a history of reporting I never knew much about)
I liked the work I put into my site back then, but it took out all my time, nothing left to sell the books, people could order from my site, or even read some them myself. And Mr. Bezos got on my nerves having 1 million book titles out there too. His first Amazon Bookselling website came out and poufff ... there went my site into my personal memorial archives. (16 years later I found video material in the archives of my later employer, German TV studio in DC, in which I saw how Mr. Bezos - sitting on a computer in his warehouse - trying to explain to our correspondents how to use his website. He fumbled and stumbled and I just got a kick out of that raw video material. Let's say I had a boost for my self-esteem while thinking "oh, looky, this - ahem - gentleman cant use his own site" very well).
:-).
I had to work too to pay the bills. That was all in my free time... it made me tired and later on I hated wasting time on "searches" and clicking on little icons and button..
Since there were way more efficient search methods coded on websites in later years, most of which I don't like, I am - let's say - a bit picky. If I don't find within half a minute what I am looking for, I just say, "to hell with it". Gimme some slack, I am not the youngest anymore. And who cares anyhow if I understand 'the world's political issues in every corner of the planet". Can't even vote in this great country of the US of A. So forgettaboutit.
https://www.euronews.com/live
something I haven't tried here and also used der evil goog
but I know that I can often search TOP better using the good than their own website. For example "cost of oil enhydra lutris daily kos" brings up "Oil, The Cost of Oil and the Gas Price Disconnect (Updated ..." with a link + excerpt, but that works because I had a key phrase I recalled.
"cost of oil enhydra lutris caucus99percent" brings up the copy I posted here as number one hit. Finding it by scrolling would be way slower. DuckDuckGo using the same search pulls it up as number 2.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Suggested Reading
Desert Quartet
Few are guilty, but all are responsible.”
― Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Prophets
Thanks, I wished sometimes,
there would be a page on the left hand side of the C99p home page with all book titles folks here have recommended to read, with a short paragraph why they recommend it and what it is about.
hmmm.... may be that is something for me to do for the next ten years....? I could include all books that were recommended on TOP too and by whom and why and what for and when ... o lordy, help me, I always end up sorting books instead of reading them. It's a curse that haunts me since 1995.
https://www.euronews.com/live
A gift from another Leonard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPDGmj5SVdg&feature=share
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.