It’s not all plain sailing for me over this past month as I muddle along through each day. Mostly not knowing if I’m going to be curled up in bed feeling as dark as the rainclouds I wish we would get or looking at a rose and thinking how blessed I am to be able to see such a perfect creation.
I listened to Richard Vidler interview Kate Forsyth on Conversations. Kate has written a book called Story of a Blood Red Rose. Which tells the origin story of a fairy tale story of the ever-flowering red rose. Worth a listen too. Now I have the ABC Listen app I love to be able to listen to Conversations anytime I want. Today I hope I’ll be able to listen to The Chair with five legs.
I also have the Spotify app so I’ve got a huge selection of music I can listen to. Yesterday I listened to Chris Whitely’s Album Dislocation Blues. Chris was an American blues/rock singer-songwriter and guitarist who died in 2005 too young at the age of 45. He had a 25 -year career, producing two dozen albums some in collaboration with Jeff Lang an Australian singer-songwriter-guitarist who recently played at Milton Theatre. Which is a small local venue with superb acoustics.
Today I think I’ll listen to Oli Brown. He is a British blues guitarist and singer-songwriter. He has released three studio albums and one live album. I think I first listened to him last year and has since been hooked.
If I still have more time I’ll probably be listening to Jethro Tull, not sure which album yet. I first saw Jethro Tull and the amazing Ian Anderson in Brisbane about 1977, then again in Sydney in 2017 (I think).
Now after another rambling piece of writing what to choose a colour and some sound. First one of my first photos of a rose.
Secondly Chris Whitley performing Big Sky Country off his 1991 album Living With The Law.
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