Subconscious . . .

https://elearningindustry.com/new-pedagogy-
 subconscious-training-in-english-skills  

Woke up from a dream,

It seemed very real.

Its fantastic premise

Left an eerie feel.

Johnny Cash sat 

With Alice Walker,

Her name was changed

To discourage stalkers.

She blasted folks,

Which appeared as subordinates,

For various and sundry

Violation of coordinates.

 

But Johnny just sat there

Across from the table,

His eyes concentration,

His countenance stable.

I approached them, the two,

With a slight bit of caution,

While packing a pipe,

Something no more an option.

But something prevented

My discourse with the man.

It wasn't a shyness,

Though I am a big fan.

As in dreams, there's no logic,

And it can't be provoked.

So I just simply watched it

Up until I awoke. 

Dreamin'
- Johnny Burnette



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        Black & White Then Back

Improvising . . .

https://hbr.org/2021/03/improvisation-takes-practice

No one looks stupid when they’re having fun. — Amy Poehler

Improvisation is too good to leave to chance. - Paul Simon

You’re only given one little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it. — Robin Williams

Put your whole self in - just like the hokey pokey. — Deb Rabbai

In improvisation, there are no mistakes. - Miles Davis

Improvisation is the art of being completely okay with not knowing what the f___ you’re doing. — Mick Napier

Enjoy things even when you’re screwing up. — Keith Johnstone

Improvisation is the courage to move from one note to the next. - Bobby McFerrinIn the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.  -  Charles Darwin 

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            Ambience & Wine

Resistance . . .

. . . is felt all around 

https://graphicriver.net/item/heavy-burden/9423247

Six AM,

The buses aren't nearly as crowded

As the night before.

Someone said there was

Music and laughter 

Behind all the shutters and doors.

What was all of it for?

Who needs friends?

There's barely a minute for breathing.

Everyone here works so hard.

There's no party.

When I reach my doorstep

I struggle to pull out my key.

Where's the meaning for me?

You see but you're unaware

There's life on the other side.

But there's no bridge to cross.

I'm looking through the fog

For some way out of here.

I've baggage here to toss.

Bless my soul!

I've read about you in the paper.

I've seen your picture somewhere.

When you speak it's in volumes and volumes.

I can't hear a word that you say.

Funny it happens that way.

I've been told 

That envy's the thing I've been feeling

For your kind of work and your play.

But to tell you the truth

That it's only a wish 

For a new kind of day,

When worry and fear melt away.

Could be 

That a day will come

When you just might understand.

I’d like to go away.

And go there to stay.

But I can’t find the way.

So it goes,

But change never really comes easy.

Resistance is felt all around. 

But inevitably something happens

That makes the old ship run aground.

We all stare in awe of what’s found.

Like me you appear to be

Looking for some meaning here.

(Baggage, from the new release 'Grains' by Ray Jozwiak

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            Another Shot

Age . . .

from AARP members email

I have no problem coping with the process of aging. I am most certainly senior in just about every respect imaginable. And now being qualified for membership in the AARP, I find myself receiving emails containing gems such as these, and for that I am grateful. This because now that I have reached that distinguished and respected portion of my life, I have determined that although many other things are (or will soon be) failing, I still have the ability to COUNT (at least to ten).

1-2-3
- Len Barry

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For The Ride

Untie - . . .

https://www.istockphoto.com/photos/untied-shoes

. . . teld  (yeah, it's the title of the song posted here.)

 One of my early studio 'ensemble' pieces modeled after all the bebop and hard-bop I listened to in the late 70s and early 80s. Wonderful music. This song is not a Bird/Diz scorcher. It's moderately slow. The left-hand of the piano coordinates with the bass line while the right, the melody of the horns. It's got many warts but was quite ambitious for me at the time. Another educational experience that I enjoy hearing again from time to time. 

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                               Put A Finger On It

Accountability . . .

 

https://depositphotos.com/stock-photos/accountability.html

(from https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/08/facts-caught-donald-trump-documents.html?via=rss_flipboard)

" . . . Until and unless Trump supporters are confident that former presidents can declassify every national security document that crosses the transom forever using nothing but their eyebrows, and then use it for whatever purposes they seek, what we are going to hear a lot of in the coming weeks is less an actual coherent defense and much more a continuation of “but her emails.” . . . this doesn’t feel like a movement that is ascendant and it doesn’t feel like a movement that is converting a whole ton of new adherents. New Quinnipiac polling shows that Americans, by a margin of 50 percent to 41 percent, think Trump should be prosecuted on criminal charges over his handling of classified documents, and nearly 6 in 10 think he acted inappropriately in handling those documents. That isn’t the dawning of reason, but it is a trend line. . . But based on what we do learn each day, this is a significant win for facts, law, and accountability. . ."

Things We Said Today
- The Beatles

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                 Critic’s Choice

Tuning . . .

https://www.dreamstime.com/photos-images/tuning.html 

(from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_standard_tuning) 

". . . New standard tuning (NST) is an alternative tuning for the guitar that approximates all-fifths tuning. The guitar's strings are assigned the notes C2-G2-D3-A3-E4-G4 (from lowest to highest); the five lowest open strings are each tuned to an interval of a perfect fifth {(C,G),(G,D),(D,A),(A,E)}; the two highest strings are a minor third apart (E,G). . . All-fifths tuning is typically used for mandolins, cellos, violas, and violins. On a guitar, tuning the strings in fifths would mean the first string would be a high B, something that was impractical until recently.[citation needed] NST provides a good approximation to all-fifths tuning. Like other regular tunings, NST allows chord fingerings to be shifted from one set of strings to another. . . NST's C-G range is wider, both lower and higher, than the E-E range of standard tuning in which the strings are tuned to the open notes E2-A2-D3-G3-B3-E4. The greater range allows NST guitars to play repertoire that would be impractical, if not impossible, on a standard-tuned guitar. . . NST was developed by Robert Fripp, the guitarist for King Crimson. Fripp taught the new standard tuning in Guitar Craft courses beginning in 1985, and thousands of Guitar Craft students continue to use the tuning. Like other alternative tunings for guitar, NST provides challenges and new opportunities to guitarists, who have developed music especially suited to NST. . . "

[Lighting in the video is virtually non-existent. The performance however, was noteworthy. Hope you agree]

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                   Chromatose