Jessica Williams – Soldjai
I would be remiss if I didn’t suggest that you purchase one of Jessica’s albums. All of them are great. My favorites are the two LIVE AT YOSHI’S albums. I would also recommend that you purchase them directly from the artists website so she can make the most profit. You can easily transfer it to your iPod from the CD she will personally sign and ship to you. Her website is: http://www.jessicawilliams.com
Dexter Gordon – I’m A Fool To Want You
(6 minutes 45 seconds)
Dexter Gordon – Love Locked Out
Write a Letter by Bethany Champagne
you should write letters to the newspaper.
lame letters that are forcefully witty yet lacking in
wit.
about things that don’t really matter.
get positively irate about something written
in the style section.
you should write letters to meredith baxter-birney so
you can be like me.
you should write letters to your unborn child telling
it how much unencumbered fun you are having because it
is, as yet, unborn.
you should write letters to the person who lives in
the apartment next to yours telling them how lonely
you feel,
separated,
as you are,
by the steel and concrete and plaster.
how many nights you lie awake thinking
about clawing through the walls until your hands are
bloody and raw. just to remove the barrier. just to be
closer.
you should write letters to a friend’s dog. post them
to the dog’s name and tell the dog how much you have
been admiring it from afar.
how you catch glimpses of it on its morning walks and
how you love the way it turns around and playfully
bites on the leash sometimes.
how you think of that moment during your work day.
how it makes you smile.
you should write letters to me. tell me all of the
things you’ve never told anyone.
tell me the things you keep in the cracks, the things
that shame you
to the core.
i’ll read them wrapped in my fur blanket with candles
lit.
i’ll use the fire to burn them, slowly, ceremoniously,
when i’m done. after i’ve brushed them
across my mouth.
i’ll take them as my own, put them in the cracks with
mine.
the places that hold memories like
that time i ducked down to tie my shoe,
embarrassed to be in my grandpa’s car
as we idled at the red in front of my high school.
how i thought of that moment minutes after he died.
the places where so
many little emaciated faces still call to me.
small,
dirty,
angelic
brown faces who will grow up hungry and
tired if they grow up at all.
i will put the words of your letters there.
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I can’t find much about Bethany Champagne on the internet.
Bethany, if you happen to do an internet search on your name, and find this posting of your piece on my blog, please comment and tell us where we can find and purchase your work.
The City Limits by A.R. Ammons
When you consider the radiance, that it does not withhold
itself but pours its abundance without selection into every
nook and cranny not overhung or hidden; when you consider
that birds’ bones make no awful noise against the light but
lie low in the light as in a high testimony; when you consider
the radiance, that it will look into the guiltiest
swervings of the weaving heart and bear itself upon them,
not flinching into disguise or darkening; when you consider
the abundance of such resource as illuminates the glow-blue
bodies and gold-skeined wings of flies swarming the dumped
guts of a natural slaughter or the coil of shit and in no
way winces from its storms of generosity; when you consider
that air or vacuum, snow or shale, squid or wolf, rose or lichen,
each is accepted into as much light as it will take, then
the heart moves roomier, the man stands and looks about, the
leaf does not increase itself above the grass, and the dark
work of the deepest cells is of a tune with May bushes
and fear lit by the breadth of such calmly turns to praise.
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From The Selected Poems by A.R. Ammons
List of species seen on Yellowstone trip
May 3-5, 2013
If you click on the species listed below it will not take you to any photos of mine, but rather to an eNature, Wikipedia, or Cornell Lab or Ornithology page for the species.
Black-billed Magpie
Bald Eagle
Common Raven
Trumpeter Swan
Yellow-headed Blackbird
American Coot
Mallard
Ring-necked Duck
Bufflehead
Ruddy Duck
Red-winged Blackbird
Osprey (catching and flying with fish)
Common Merganser
American Bison
Canada Goose (small and large race)
Elk
Dark-eyed Junco
Uinta Ground Squirrel
Coyote
Sandhill Cranes
Mountain Bluebird
Bighorn Sheep (my first time seeing one in the wild)
American Robin
Mule Deer
Clark’s Nutcracker
Barrows Goldeneye
Grizzly Bear
Red Squirrel
Yellow-bellied Marmot
Steller’s Jay
Red-tailed Hawk
Willet
Great Blue Heron
