How easily one can forget... The simple pleasures Of her elemental treasures

Humpback whale sounds on this song were provided by Roger Payne and the New York Zoological Society. Payne received the recordings from Navy engineer Frank Watlington, who captured the humpback vocalizations while tracking submarine sounds off the Bermuda coast.🐋

Recordings That Made Waves: The Songs That Saved The Whales

In the mid-1960s, a biologist discovered the beauty of humpback whale songs. But his recordings weren't just academic — they were woven into popular music, and they kicked off an entire movement.

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CelticStoic(Dan) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿@celticstoic.bsky.social · 2d ago

A lyric twist on this #MelvilleMonday 🇬🇱 Our ship is well rigged And she's ready to sail The crew they are anxious To follow the whale And the birds here sing sweetly In mountain and dale But there's no bird in Greenland To sing to the whale – George Scroggie, c. 1857 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 +

A lyric twist on this #MelvilleMonday 🇬🇱 Our ship is well rigged And she's ready to sail The crew they are anxious To follow the whale And the birds here sing sweetly In mountain and dale But there's no bird in Greenland To sing to the whale – George Scroggie, c. 1857 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 +

Farewell to Tarwathie

YouTube video by Judy Collins - Topic

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For the first time in a long time, I ventured outdoors yesterday with my wife. The greenery, the breeze, the vast blue – how wonderful. How one forgets.

#SundaySentence "Banishment is a way of life for poets, so what's to be afraid of?" - Garrison Keillor, from the Introduction, c. 2005

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A bit of jazz for the weekend...

If I Had You

YouTube video by Etta Jones - Topic

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"There are things in life that we must endure which are all but unendurable, yet I feel that there is a great goodness. Why, when there could have been nothing, is there something? This is a great mystery. How, when there could have been nothing, does it happen that there is love, kindness, beauty?"

#MECFS #TodaysPoem I slept in a bed in a room with paintings on the walls, and planned another day just like this day. But one day, I know, it will be otherwise. - Jane Kenyon, from Otherwise poets.org/poem/otherwise

Otherwise

I got out of bed

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#WhitmanWednesday 🌾 All the "great phases" in history are no doubt fictions. - Walt Whitman, c. 1890

The poet "may be defeated in love and finance and yet the night belongs to him, […] So are poets, the angels and shepherds of the sleeping world." - Garrison Keillor, from the Introduction, c. 2005

"What your life can be, lived bravely and independently, you can discover in poetry." - Garrison Keillor, from the Introduction, c. 2005

#MelvilleMonday "With other men, perhaps, such things would not have been inducements; but as for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote." - Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, c. 1851 Thomas W. Nason. Road to the Sea. 1931.

@ainekeenan.bsky.social : Thank you✨

#SundaySentence 🎧 "Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the World and it will one day return there.” - Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

A bit of jazz for the weekend... youtu.be/Ew3W2hK1ZCE

Detour Ahead

YouTube video by Stan Getz - Topic

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"Finish each day and be done with it. […] It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays." - Emerson, c. 1854

#couplet To forget, to not feel - but Some wounds are too deep to heal.

#WhitmanWednesday 🌾 Unscrew the locks from the doors ! Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs ! I speak the password primeval . . . . I give the sign of democracy; By God ! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms. - Walt Whitman, 1855

#MelvilleMonday "There is magic in it. […] Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever." Moby-Dick (Ch. 1), c. 1851

#SundaySentence "Bitterness settles in the heart of a child and innocence is lost, because the world announces in stark terms that you, no matter how young you may be, do not belong here." - Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

A bit of jazz for the weekend... youtu.be/gfBhs9RkeEI

Stacey Kent - La saison des pluies (Lyrics video)

YouTube video by Stacey Kent Music

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#WhitmanWednesday 🌾 Is reform needed? Is it through you? ... Go, mon cher! if need be, give up all else, and commence to-day to inure yourself to pluck, reality, self-esteem, definiteness, elevatedness, Rest not, till you rivet and publish yourself of your own personality. Walt Whitman

a corrupt world in its latter days . . . a child at play

Eve Castle@evecastle.bsky.social · 3w ago

A little challenge! Use Issa’s first two lines and insert a third line, repetitive line if you can. What would yours say today? a corrupt world in its latter days . . . a fawn, a fawn! Would be mine for today. Blessings. #IssaHaikuChallenge #haiku

#MelvilleMonday "With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship." Moby-Dick ( Ch. 1 Loomings) New Bedford Harbor by Mauritz F. H. De Haas (1832-1895)

And every one of them words rang true And glowed like burnin' coal Pourin' off of every page Like it was written in my soul From me to you Tangled up in blue - Bob Dylan, c. 1965

Tangled up in Blue

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#WhitmanWednesday 🌾 I say we had best look our times and lands searchingly in the face, like a physician diagnosing some deep disease. Never was there, perhaps, more hollowness at heart than at present, and here in the United States. - Walt Whitman, c. 1871

"And some said softly, 'Luck, you see, brings bitter friends.'" John Steinbeck, The Pearl (1947)

#MelvilleMonday "[Hawthorne] is immeasurably deeper than the plummet of the mere critic. For it is not the brain that can test such a man; it is only the heart. You cannot come to know greatness by inspecting it; there is no glimpse to be caught of it, except by intuition." - Melville, c. 1850

#SundaySentence A pitch-perfect reading by Donald Sutherland. "But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated."