Music: Going Home from 1975 by Barry McGuire

| May 22, 2016

Above is a slideshow compilation set to Barry McGuire’s "Going Home" from his 1975 "To the Bride" album. It is one of my favorite McGuire songs (posted about him before). Now if I were new age, I’d say it "centers me" … but as a Christian (who loves sailing, hence the BluenoseII images), it sooths […]

Thoughts of war, a nuclear exchange and our human condition

| May 16, 2016

While listening to Pianobar (Pandora app) on the Raspberry Pi this weekend, an oldie from Barry McGuire called Eve Of Destruction (1965) was “hypothetically spinning on the turntable” and reminded me how human history continues to repeat itself. We cycle through anger, hatred, genocide and war over and over again, no matter how destructive and […]

Desultory - des-uhl-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee

  1. lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful: desultory conversation.
  2. digressing from or unconnected with the main subject; random: a desultory remark.
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