Attention . . .

The attention span of the U.S. press helps to keep the attention span of the public very short, or is it vice versa? . . .

Attention Span Statistics | Statistic Brain
www.statisticbrain.com/attention-span-statistics/
Source: National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine, The Associated Press. Research Date: 1.1.2014. Attention span is the amount of concentrated time on a task without becoming distracted.

8-Second Attention Span? | Ken McCall | LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/.../20140418171300-15742110-writi...
LinkedIn Apr 18, 2014 - Online references abound about the human attention span being 8 seconds, ... Compared to us humans and the goldfish, the snail would appear to be the ... is being accused of such a short attention span (knowing his friend the snail is so ... Information · U.S. National Library of Medicine · Associated Press.

The 8-second attention span? Don't bother - Official Samuel
www.officialsamuel.com/blog/attention-span/
Oct 28, 2012 - Web surfers have a painfully short attention span, one that matches the goldfish's 9 ... According to the latest statistics verified by The Associated Press, I am ... Yes, it matters but only up to the point where it reminds us, brand  ...

the attention span of a modern internet consumer
www.theguardian.com/.../attention-span-internet-consumer
The Guardian
Feb 28, 2014 - short attention span ... A recent Pew Internet study in the US suggests that while students coming through the schools system in this always on  ...

Our Attention Spans Are Getting Shorter, And It's A Big ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../attention-span-book_n...
The Huffington Post Oct 23, 2013 - Then there are the basics of attention, the cognitive muscle that lets us follow a story, see a task through to the end, learn or create. In some  ...

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Turkeys . . .

American generosity during the holiday season is frequently exhibited by the gift of a turkey, through holiday programs for the poor. Such programs are always under the control of the “haves”,  some of which have actually complained that the programs are abused by a number of the 'ungrateful' poor. In truth though, turkey and toys programs are an embarrassment to the poor. They simply do not build self-esteem for people who are poor.  The gap between rich and poor in the U.S. today is huge and still growing. Our nation has an arrogant rich that lives apart from the poor, many of which have reached that level through manipulation and the misuse of human capital.  The poor beg for a livable wage, a decent house to live in, good education and basic health care while the rich pit the poor against one another and continue to pay poverty wages.  When the minimum wage becomes a living wage, and education, housing and healthcare become affordably available for all,  turkey and toy programs will become, and rightly so, a thing of the past.   'God bless us, each and every one.'

(Based upon writings by Rev. Howard Bess, retired American Baptist minister, who lives in Palmer, Alaska.  His email address is  HYPERLINK "mailto:hdbss@mtaonline.net" hdbss@mtaonline.net)

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Auld Lang Syne . . .

. . . no matter how hard we wish next year to be good, prosperous, happy, healthy or joyous, a year is a year.  Like life, most of it will depend upon our choices.  And as we well know we must go on when we lose people in our lives. But some part of them must and will live on.  

This poem is for Paul Penwell, a longtime Frederick are open mike participant; regular performer and workshop presenter, blues guitarist and songwriter Marjorie Thompson; and Ricardo, the Divining Sage(Richard White), guitarist extraordinaire and an old soul who helped many . . .

ABSENT FRIENDS

It was not cold but overcast,

A neutral afternoon for Christmas,

Not pointing anywhere,

Not suggesting anything,

Limned by a room splashed full of

Scarlet and white poinsettias;

Neutral plants from Mexico,

When I heard a guitar line

Falter and fade, ascending;

We have our exits and

Our entrances…

Another year –

Auld Lang Syne –

For the sake of times gone by

We take a cup of kindness

Or a glass of wine or whiskey

And salute old friends;

Our cast of characters

Changes, despite our

Holding on tightly...

So, to absent friends, who

Enriched us here, thank you!

But you moved on too abruptly,

Though maybe leaving us with

Sage counsel, or echoes –

Whispers; notes rippling and

Ringing through our memories...

-Rod Deacey

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Just More . . .

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Music . . .

. . . and the tremendous power that it holds will never be fully explained nor understood . . .


(from http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/power-of-music)
“Where words leave off, music begins.”
― Heinrich Heine

“Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“Music is the universal language of mankind.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Where words fail, music speaks.”
― Hans Christian Andersen

“Who hears music, feels his solitude
Peopled at once.”
― Robert Browning, The complete poetical works of Browning

“I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.”
― Tom Waits

“Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.”
― Robert Fripp

"Even when involving an extremely unhappy topic, or originating from a most unlikely source, or presenting a disagreeable or plainly untrue thesis, music can still move me."
- Ray Jozwiak

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A Blast . . .

. . . from the past . . . and . . .  


(from http://archives.explorebaltimorecounty.com/news/6018220/rotunda-art-gallery-has-wiggle-room-sing-different-tune/ of January 31, 2008)
". . . The Wiggle Room was conceived as a multipurpose space by Nancy Graboski, who bought the Beveled Edge in 1998, when it was a framing shop under the Jones Falls in Woodberry. She added a frame design and gallery space on Falls Road in Mt. Washington "to be more in the public eye," she said. A flash flood in 2004 destroyed both spaces. Graboski then moved the retail space temporarily to the Mt. Washington Village shopping district and the production space to Clipper Mill, where it remains. She moved the retail business to the Rotunda, 711 W. 40th St., in November 2006 and reopened in February 2007. The open mic night at Gallery G is the brainchild of her brother-in-law, Jay Graboski, of Catonsville, a songwriters association member who asked her early last year to let him host an open mic night there. Now, it's a magnet for music lovers and a marketing asset . . ."


. . . and . . .

S/He
Working on bringing back an OHO gem with a new guitar and a new (as opposed to the album recording)lead voice, Mr. Graboski himself. (recorded at the Compound, December 2014)

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OLD Friend . . .

(http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/12/23/372723222/woman-who-lied-to-facebook-about-her-age-dies-at-114 December 23, 2014)
Anna Stoehr became an Internet celebrity at age 113, when she owned up to fibbing on her Facebook account so she could join the social network. It was an unpredictable turn of events for Stoehr, who was born before the Wright brothers took their historic first flight. She died Sunday at age 114. "Anna lived alone on her farm in Potsdam, MN until she was 112," local KARE 11 TV reports. "She and her husband Ernest had farmed together. He passed away in 1998 at the age of 97." Facebook, whose software could not (and still cannot) account for a birth date before the year 1905, "sent her a bouquet of 114 flowers for her most recent birthday," the AP reports. Stoehr's story spread after her son Harlan, 85, went to a Verizon store to buy a phone for his mother. When she had trouble joining Facebook, she wrote the company a letter that included the line, "I'm still here." . . . The social network wasn't the only way Stoehr embraced technology late in life. When KARE 11 spoke to her before her birthday in October, she was using an iPad to hold video chats — in German — with a friend. "That's an aspect of my mom," Harlan told KARE in October. "She's been curious about everything all her life and continues to be curious about it."

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My latest solo release, '2014' of original, instrumental piano music, can be downloaded digitally at:

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