Hall shadows.

 

Cultural Appropriation.

Dear Friends,

I have been an interesting conversation about cultural appropriation recently.  I don't know if this happens to you, but words that people say often stay with me, for months, years, forever; and they shape my thoughts ever and anon. 

So, what to do with this song, Apache, by The Shadows?  I offer you this bit of reading on the topic of cultural appropriation in pop music; and now that you have read it, you can decide what should be done with the song, in a cover version by The Ventures.  Or try this one.  And this one.  One more?

I think what I would do, is apologize, publicly retract the title, and choose a new one for it:  How about "Reparation?"

Deadline & Dandelion: A poem.

 

Deadline & Dandelion

I was looking for direction, an answer: a word; it began with d.

Discussion, downturn, diffident.

700 thousand silver marks?

A room, papered in maps?

A suitcase, with words on it?

I packed the case, began the journey and arrived at the snow;

an avalanche.

I retreated; 

walked back through the seasons, the fall, the summer, the spring.  

Time is not a spiral after all; it is a pendulum swinging into 

winter over and over.

Deaden, dredged, double-dip.

I painted on my suitcase large words of resistance:

Desolation,

decenter,

defenestration,

deluge.

 

 

 

 

1100

 

Dear Skaters,

Today is day eleven hundred!  Doesn't time fly when you are having fun?  I have two films for you today to hopefully inspire you to 'lace up' as skaters like to say.  

Gone somewhere!

 

Square cats.

 

Dear Kitties,

All you cats are going to love this cube car; just love it!  It is your film of the day.  It fills me with joy and possibilities.  It came to me from a member of the intrepid Dodo staff.

sunlight