Apart from the wedding of Michael and Jill last weekend in Chicago, I had a great time hanging out with old friends, new friends and Open Space colleagues from around the States. But of all the things that happened on the weekend around the wedding the best had to be meeting Al Camp. The wedding took place at Pleasant Home, in Oak Park. The house is situated in a lovely little park and in true Buddhist fashion, Michael had strung up strings of Tibetan prayer flags around the place with the Guru Rinpoche mantra on them. In this little park, …
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A haunting instrumental from guitarist Cam Butler. Butler is one third of a Melbourne based trio called Silver Ray. This track is from a self-titled album he released into the public domain. I’ll send this one out to Dave. mp3: Cam Butler – Lonely World
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That’s Hang (pronounced “hung”), a beautiful contemporary steel hand drum. I played one last summer and they are gorgeous. Today, thanks to a great post at the Soundroots blog I discovered some great recordings of the hang, including some beauties from Alan Tower. Enjoy! mp3: Alan Tower – This Idea Can Save the Planet
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Thoreau, from May 27, 1851: I saw an organ-grinder this morning before a rich man’s house, thrilling the street with harmony, loosening the very paving stones and tearing the routine of life to rags and tatters, when the lady of the house shoved up a window and in a semiphilanthropic tone inquired if he wanted anything to eat. But he, very properly it seemed to me, kept on grinding and paid no attention to her question, feeding her ears with melody unasked for. So the world shoves up its window and interrogates the poet, and sets him to gauging ale …
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It was a rainy day here on Bowen Island, so I pushed around some pieces of my blog. Readers familiar with the evolution of Parking Lot over the past four years will remember that I once devoted a great deal of time to reading poetry and collecting the work of poets I admire. I have reset those collections, and you can find them on the sidebar in the “Collections of poetry” page. The Denise Levertov collection is still one of the most popular pages on this whole site. Also in the sidebar is a restoration of a page that has …