[So weird! I went to upload this post last night about 8 p.m. and received an e-mail from Blogger; here's a snippet:
As you may know, our Community Guidelines describe the boundaries for what we allow-- and don't allow-- on Blogger. Your post titled "Coming Alive Again
(David LaMotte)" was flagged to us for review. We have determined that it
violates our guidelines and deleted the post, previously at
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I completely freaked out, tried to recover it, thought about attempting to re-create it but it was late and I was tired, and then gave up in defeat, shutting down my computer completely, and vowing to solve/resolve in the morning.
Woke up today to this:
We have re-evaluated the post titled "Coming Alive Again (David
LaMotte)" against Community Guidelines. Upon review, the post has been
reinstated. You may access the post at
http://optimisticvoices.blogspot.com/2021/05/coming-alive-again-david-lamotte.html.
What?!? Whatever! Thanks to Blogger for re-evaluating as well as validating that I made the right choice by not spending time troubleshooting last night, and for believing in the system such that it all eventually and easily came together (although I certainly didn't sleep well as a result). First World Problems, right? Happy Saturday... 💖 ]
A few things on tap for the weekend, and we shall see how it all unfolds. In the meantime, it is indeed Feel Good Friday. As is tradition, five items below of beauty, interest, and humor to brighten your day/weekend/week. Enjoy!
~ The Other Side of Languishing Is Flourishing. Here’s How to Get There: Research shows that the pandemic took a toll on our overall well-being and left many of us drained. Here are seven simple steps to get you thriving again.
~ The Lure of H Mart, Where the Shelves Can Seem as Wide as Asia: The huge grocery chain and other megastores like it have revolutionized the way many Asian-Americans shop and eat.
~ Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize Winning Novel, The Underground Railroad on Amazon Prime: From Academy Award® winner Barry Jenkins and based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, "The Underground Railroad" is a new series that chronicles Cora Randall’s desperate bid for freedom in the Antebellum South. After escaping a Georgia plantation for the rumored Underground Railroad, Cora discovers no mere metaphor, but an actual railroad beneath the Southern soil.
~ Welcome to Life Lessons: This week, we revisit some admittedly out of context highlights from two interviews with singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, the original Lady of the Canyon: first in August 1985, then in April 1991. Sit down, pull out your acoustic guitar—you just might learn a thing or two.
~ Do We Even Know How To Socialize Anymore? Zoom meetings. Virtual happy hours. Facetime dates. We've been living in a pandemic world for over a year now, and for better or worse, many of us are used to our new social routines. But as vaccinations ramp up and restrictions begin to loosen across the country, the new question is: Are we ready? After so much time apart, do we even know how to socialize in person anymore?
~ The Lure of H Mart, Where the Shelves Can Seem as Wide as Asia: The huge grocery chain and other megastores like it have revolutionized the way many Asian-Americans shop and eat.
~ Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize Winning Novel, The Underground Railroad on Amazon Prime: From Academy Award® winner Barry Jenkins and based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, "The Underground Railroad" is a new series that chronicles Cora Randall’s desperate bid for freedom in the Antebellum South. After escaping a Georgia plantation for the rumored Underground Railroad, Cora discovers no mere metaphor, but an actual railroad beneath the Southern soil.
~ Do We Even Know How To Socialize Anymore? Zoom meetings. Virtual happy hours. Facetime dates. We've been living in a pandemic world for over a year now, and for better or worse, many of us are used to our new social routines. But as vaccinations ramp up and restrictions begin to loosen across the country, the new question is: Are we ready? After so much time apart, do we even know how to socialize in person anymore?
BOOK: 88+ Ways Music Can Change Your Life by Vincent James, Joann Pierdomenico, Jack Canfield (Foreword)
POEM(S): To Be Alive by Gregory Orr
POEM(S): To Be Alive by Gregory Orr
To be alive: not just the carcass
But the spark.
That's crudely put, but ...
If we're not supposed to dance,
Why all this music?
Say it With a Mix-Tape by Christopher Goodrich
These are the professionals. The ones who know
why birds suddenly appear every time you are near;
the self-assured idols who can ask Do you
want to know a secret oooooo waaaa oooooo?
without sounding stupid. I’ve begged
them to tell us why secrets are
given as gifts in obvious packaging.
So much of falling is sitting still, filling
a blank tape with voices of famous people—
the mystic warbling of Joni Mitchell,
the simple sex of Simon and Garfunkel.
This is what it sounds like to be me in love with you.
And because only Ray Charles, who sings from both sides now,
can translate my heart’s handwriting, I’ve included
two of his numbers, see side A, songs two and nine.
He will insist, as many times as you care to listen:
I’m gonna love you like nobody’s loved you come rain
or come shine, which, incidentally, is true, I’m gonna.
The Mix-Tape: proof that love loves James Brown, the reason
we turn to Nina Simone when sex fails to fulfill us,
why, when harmony is what is missing,
a light rhythmic rain begins to fall.
QUOTE: "You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is." ~ Rebecca West
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