Source:

Sebastião Salgado Photojournalist,
Gourma-Rharous
Mali, 1985

Wednesday, August 3, 2022

 




"Don't meditate to get anything, but to get rid of things. We do it, not with desire, but with letting go."  - Ajahn Chah




"Unearned suffering is redemptive and has tremendous educational and transforming possibilities."  - Martin Luther King, Jr






Tuesday, August 2, 2022

World War III

 


 









"War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other." --Paul Valery





Saturday, November 6, 2021

 



"If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule – Never lie to yourself."



Since I've Laid My Burdens Down Mississippi John Hurt




 

https://youtu.be/KXEtNknolKY


Since I've Laid My Burdens Down Mississippi John Hurt 

Pictures are from the Library of Congress, American Memory Project and are of various people and places in Mississippi. 

The dates range from 1935 - 1945. 

Mississippi John Hurt had two albums of very limited success in 1928. 

He was later "rediscovered" in the sixties and put out or took part in a number of albums and small concerts. 








Mac Rebennack - Lay My Burden Down (featuring Mavis Staples)




  
https://youtu.be/ASpjXcPwlBg




LAY MY BURDEN DOWN




 

https://youtu.be/wJ8rx6cMj2E





Monday, May 13, 2019

I Got To Move - Homesick James

  






REVEREND GARY DAVIS - Death Don't Have No Mercy




REVEREND GARY DAVIS - Death Don't Have No Mercy


Reverend Gary Davis, also Blind Gary Davis, (1896-1972) was a blues and gospel singer and guitarist.

Davis became blind at a young age. He took to the guitar and assumed a unique multi-voice style produced solely with his thumb and index finger, playing not only ragtime and blues tunes, but also traditional and original tunes in four-part harmony.
In the mid-1920s, Davis migrated to Durham, North Carolina, a major center for black culture at the time.

There he collaborated with a number of other artists in the Piedmont blues scene including Blind Boy Fuller and Bull City Red.

In the 1940s Davis migrated to New York.

The folk revival of the 1960s re-invigorated Davis' career, culminating in a performance at the Newport Folk Festival and the recording by Peter, Paul and Mary of "Samson and Delilah", also known as "If I Had My Way", originally a Blind Willie Johnson recording that Davis had popularized.


He has influenced the Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Wizz Jones, Jorma Kaukonen, Keb' Mo', Ollabelle and Resurrection Band.



Link: https://youtu.be/GQfFpfs4Rdw




Frankie Lee Sims Lucy Mae Blues (1953)

  

Frankie Lee Sims Lucy Mae Blues (1953)

Composed by Frankie Lee Sims

Frankie Lee Sims:Vocals and Guitar

Herbert Washington:Drums

Unknown:Bass

Recorded in Dallas, TX. March 5, 1953

Originally issued on Specialty 459 (78 RPM)

This recording taken from the 1992 CD "Blues Masters Volume 3:Texas Blues"







Sugaray Rayford & The Italian Royal Family - Take Me Back [ OFFICIAL VID...

  

Sugaray Rayford and The Italian Royal Family - Take Me Back [ OFFICIAL VIDEO ]








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Sugaray Rayford - Take Me Back
Backing band: The Italian Royal Family

Director : Federico Catalano
Director of Photography: Marco Capriotti
Colorist: Federico Catalano
Art Direction: Luca Sapio & Olga Ribichini

Barman: Christian Angelo Valdez
Produced by Blind Faith Records
Special Thanks to: Francesco Gatti, The Building Hotel, Matteo Sapio

Taken from Sugaray Rayford album "The World That We Live In"
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Thursday, May 2, 2019

What differentiates hopes, wishes, dreams and goals?

Dreams are the ideas that we wish to become true, but without the effort of us. 

While goals are targets that we seek to reach by planning and effort. 

The difference is in planning and taking actions: "A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement."



Every person wishes to be realized his wishes and live a happy life. 

Some people dream to achieve Wishlist, others makes them a goal to achieve his aspirations. What is the difference between them?

"A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement."


The big difference between a goal and a dream is a timeline and accountability.  One can dream about something but until s/he specifically defines it and puts it on a timeline by setting specific deadlines, s/he 'll never really start making movement.


"If wishes were horses, beggars would ride" is a proverb and nursery rhyme, first recorded about 1628 in a collection of Scottish proverbs.[1], which suggests if wishing could make things happen, then even the most destitute people would have everything they wanted.


Common newer versions include:

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
If turnips were watches, I'd wear one by my side.
If "if's" and "and's" were pots and pans,
There'd be no work for tinkers' hands.


... and a shorter version:
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
If turnips were bayonets, I'd wear one by my side.











Do magpies really steal shiny things?





Do magpies really steal shiny things? An experiment shows that, in reality, these birds are more likely to grab your sandwich than your silver: 

http://ow.ly/HeRi50qkoeS 


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