“Stuff, Just Stuff”

I have spent the evening getting out Christmas decorations and the Christmas tree. We have always put it up on the corner of the table Fred has behind his computer. This would be the table covered with his stuff. He needs only to clean off a corner which is how I would tackle the job. He has to tackle the whole table–sorting, discarding and reorganizing. Do I need to say I have finished my rather slapdash decorating of the 3 ft tree and lighted it and am now waiting impatiently for the clear corner so I can get it off the dining table? Right-brain, left-brain and never the twain shall meet!

My second walk took me up to the drugstore in the falling snow in order to get some dark chocolate which they have on sale for ninety-nine cents a bar. I got the last two bars! I also got two more strings of colored light for the tree because they were on sale. This rather avoids the fact that I had put three strings on the tree already! I stopped by the house, dropped off my purse and the bag in the downstairs foyer and continued walking around the block. The snowflakes were large and wet, just touching my face and sticking to the grass but not to the sidewalk. On my way back, I stopped on a corner to cross a road and a lady called to me from her doorway and asked me to help her out to the road. She wanted to get the bus that was just coming down the road but because her walk was slushy, she didn’t trust herself to walk on it to get to the road. I helped her onto the bus too and I was glad that I am fit and active enough to walk where I need to go.

IPoddery: {with commentary since I don’t have much to write about.}

• “We’ve Only Just Begun” Karen Carpenter This always reminds me of when our students “graduated” from seventh grade. We always made a big thing of this because the children moved to another school when they went to the 8th grade. They always got to choose their own theme song to sing and this one was the choice of several classes ove r the years.
• “Rule Britannia” Broadside Band AND with ALL the words and all the verses! “Britains never never ever shall be slaves!” Good stuff!
• “Cabin Down Below” Tom Petty His music was something my younger son introduced me to. In fact, J.? If you are looking for your Tom Petty CD, I have it . {oops!}
• “Waters of March” Art Garfunkel This song was a good introduction to “train of thought” poems I had my students write every year.
• “Cadgewith Anthem” Steeleye Span
• “Bleeker Street” Simon and Garfunkel
• “Imagine” Joan Baez. This was a song that was requested by a seventh grade student one year for their “graduation” song. The request was was turned down by the music teacher because a line in it says “and no religion, too.” She felt some of our parents would take offense. She was correct, but wouldn’t have stopped me.
• “The Tower of Song” A weird Leonard  Cohen song sung by Robert Forster on a CD of Cohen songs called I’m Your Fan.
• “If You Could Read My Mind” Gordon Lightfoot. I came across him accidentally when flipping channels years ago, and there he was on a concert on PBS. Next day, I went out and bought a couple of “Best of..” In fact, there is one of his CDs in my wish list on Amazon.
• “Under African Skies” Paul Simon and someone who is female. Very easy and satisfactory harmony. {this means I can sing her part! LOL}
• “Came So Far for Beauty” I think this is a Cohen song since the CD is called Famous Blue Raincoat {which is definitely is a Cohen song.} Hearing her sing with Cohen got me to buy a few of her CDs. I can recomment The Hunter.
• “Her Mother’s Daughter” Dory Previn. A really thought-provoking song with a message.
• “Canon in D ” by Pachelbel played here by the New Bach Collegium. Somewhere I have a whole CD with nothing but this piece of music with different interpretations including at least one {Shirley Bassy, I think} with words.
• “The Black Freighter” song by Steeleye Span or, more truthfully, by the woman who sings with that group.