June 5 is World Environment Day. It is also Day 5 of the 30 Days – 30 Songs! challenge. The song challenge is being hosted by Sarah, from Art Expedition.
So the day chooses the music — Earth Cry (composed by Peter Sculthorpe). Sadly, Peter Sculthorpe died in 2014 after a long and distinguished music career in Australia and internationally.
It is not too late to join the Challenge. Casual players welcome. Click here to create a pingback to Sarah’s Day 5 post.
Kind Regards.
Tracy
Who would have thought a song challenge would get the ol’ grey matter working? It is Day 4 of the 30 Days, 30 Songs! challenge. This challenge is hosted by Sarah from Art Expeditions.
Woo, Woo.
Sarah’s pick for today is dark — fun, but dark. She has chosen Sympathy for the Devil by the Rolling Stones. Nice. I can work with that. So are you ready for another song, ladies and gentlemen? Let’s take a walk to the edge of town.
It is not too late to join the Challenge. Casual players welcome. Click here to create a pingback to Sarah’s Day 4 post.
Too many songs, so little time.
Kind Regards.
Tracy.
My friend, Sarah from Art Expeditions is hosting the 30 Days, 30 Songs! challenge and I thought I would join in for the Day 3 shenanigans.
Sarah chose Cyndi Lauper’s Girls Just Want to Have Fun for her song today. What a fantastic song! I love that song, and I know I’m showing my age, but there were many discos held in my lounge room dancing to that song when it first came out. Around the same time, the Communards did a cover of Don’t Leave Me This Way. What an era for dancing that was. As you can imagine, I nearly wore a hole in my carpet from all the dancing. So I think I’ll go with that as my song pick for Day 3. I also note that WordPress has just announced its support for Pride Month so the timing couldn’t be better to pay tribute to these talented people.
I’m losing control. I won’t be satisfied until I have a sing. Sing it with me.
It is not too late to join the Challenge. Click here to create a pingback to Sarah’s Day 3 post.
I’ll be back tomorrow if I can think of any more favourite songs.
Kind Regards.
Tracy.
It is Day 2 of the 30 Days, 30 Songs! Challenge being hosted by Sarah from Art Expeditions, and therefore time for my next song pick.
I have been waiting for Sarah’s post because I often need a little inspiration from others before my brain clicks into gear. Sarah’s choice is Beautiful Day by U2. I hadn’t heard that one before, so I looked up the date it was released — 2000. That explains it. It was about then that I gave up on popular music. It might have had something to do with being so exhausted from raising children. Quality may have been an issue too (disco was dead!). However, I’m still inspired by Sarah’s U2 theme, so I am going to stick with a variation on that theme.
One of my all time favourite songs is I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For. The song was written by U2 and first released in 1987, but it was not until I heard The Chimes’ version of the song, that it really became an anthem for me. I am slightly conflicted, but only slightly, because I’ve already posted this song for a blog challenge. However, you can never have enough of this song. Trust me, you can sing the melody and harmonies at the same time. Sing it with me.
It is not too late to join the Challenge. Click here to create a pingback to Sarah’s Day 2 post.
Kind Regards.
Tracy.
Dear Readers, my friend, Sarah from Art Expeditions, is hosting a challenge for the month of June. It is the Share Your Music: 30 Days – 30 Songs! challenge. I’ve decided to participate because I like Sarah and I like music. Also, June is the first month of winter in my part of the world and because I am very indecisive, this challenge could keep me out of trouble.
I’m sure Sarah would love it if you joined in the challenge too. Any or every day of the month would be just fine. Be sure to include a pingback to her daily music post if you decide to participate. That way others can also see your selection. Click here for her Day 1 post. For the first day, she chose the main theme to Star Wars — one of my favourites. You can never have too many favourites. For my first post of the challenge, I have chosen a variation on Sarah’s theme of stars and war. I have landed on Holst: The Planets, ‘Mars’. Eek, very punny! As you are probably aware, Mars is the bringer of war. Enjoy.
Have you got a favourite from the The Planets suite? Let me know. I can’t decide.
Kind Regards.
Tracy.
Ah May … absolutely sublime but odd.
Weirdly, still bathed in sun this late into autumn.
Because truth in promotion is important (just kidding), here is an artistic shot of a plastic bag polluting the creek. Still, the light is nice.
Record May temperatures have extended the growing season for my tomatoes and the beautiful autumn colour beyond their usual best-before date. Read more
One must not be subtle or delicate about climate emergencies.
Who shall dry my tears
when the flowers are gone?
Not the morally bankrupt,
nor the weekend warriors.
Caught in your own bubble
of flattery and deceit.
Walk into my parlour. Take
your seat. Parliament is now in session
and treachery abounds.
Watch your step, watch your back,
said the spider to the clown.
What goes around, comes around.
Earth, she will not wait. Read more
Take me to the April sun in Canberra (pronounced Canbra). In the words of George Eliot:
“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.”
Daylight savings has ended. so we sleep in another hour.
This week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge is hosted by Amy. Her chosen theme is “less is more“. Amy’s inspiration for this theme is a quote by Antoine de Saint-Exupery:
“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
Now that is a very intriguing notion to me, because it seems to me that there is nothing more perfect than nature’s design. Read more
Hello Groovers, I was going to start with a joke about how I’ve been hanging out in a hotbed of radicalism, but that doesn’t seem very appropriate now. So instead, I will tell you about how lovely it was to spend last weekend at the National Folk Festival (Canberra) with many people of goodwill. Admittedly we were a little cranky given the political times/blame games, but we took our frustrations out in peaceful and creative ways, such as through humour, verse and songs of kindness. Here’s how it goes. Read more
Reflections of An Untidy Mind 