"If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule – Never lie to yourself."
Saturday, November 6, 2021
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.
Monday, May 13, 2019
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 ]
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.
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
Audubon SocietyVerified account @audubonsociety May 1
Friday, April 26, 2019
OVERPOPULATION is at the root of many problems
THE WORLD is facing a series of interlinked crises which threatens billions of people and could cause the collapse of civilization.
Climate change, pollution, food shortages, diseases, wars, disasters, crime and recessions are all conspiring to ravage the globe and threaten the future of humanity.
Democracy, human rights and press freedom are also suffering.
OVERPOPULATION is at the root of these problems
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Information Overload is the Bane of my Life
My daily struggle is to understand what is important, to my situation, in the constant barrage of information on the Internet.
What can and should be ignored?
Is my purpose to seek distraction, novelty and entertainment?
Or is the goal and purpose to my Net Surfing to gain valuable knowledge?
What do I hope to accomplish?
“There are things that attract human attention, and there is often a huge gap between what is important and what is attractive and interesting."
- Yuval Noah Harari
And Donald Trump has not helped make being informed easy with all his mixed messages.
“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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