A Day In The Life

People, Places, Nature, LIFE!

12/12/2018
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Tuesday Photo Challenge: Challenge

This week Frank challenges us with, well, Challenge. That’s the theme this week.

Oh, the challenge of trying to photograph birds. Sometimes you just can’t click the shutter fast enough- they are in constant motion

Or perhaps there are bushes in the way and you know the bird will be spooked if you make too much noise, and you zoom in too much resulting in this:

But when you meet the challenge, the reward is great

 

12/10/2018
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Holiday Concert

As many of you know my husband started taking violin lessons three years ago. In order to improve his playing he tries to play with other people and groups. Last year he joined NYLSO- the New York  Late Starters Orchestra, a group of adults who came to learn an instrument later in life. This year he joined the New Jersey Intergenerational Orchestra-NJIO, and travels an hour away every Monday for instruction and playing with a group of people who like himself are new to playing a stringed instrument. They are the “Prelude” group. There is a larger orchestra comprised of people of all different ages who have been playing their entire lives who perform a Holiday Concert every year. The Prelude Group was invited to play in the Lobby this year before the actual concert performance began. Here they are warming up. (there was someone talking right behind me)

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He plays 2nd Violin with the group, (the harmony) but never plays 2nd fiddle to me!

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12/09/2018
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Song Lyric Sunday: Theme: Boys

The song Boys Don’t Cry” popped into my head immediately upon seeing the them this week. It is a song by English rock band The Cure, who back in the day I saw many times in concert when they played in NYC. It was released in the UK as a stand-alone single in June 1979, The lyrics tell the story of a man who has given up trying to regain the love that he has lost, and tries to disguise his true emotional state by “laughing, hiding the tears in [his] eyes, ’cause boys don’t cry”.

The 1999 film Boys Don’t Cry took its title from the song; a cover version, performed by Nathan Larson, was used as the title song for the film. The song has appeared in numerous other films, including The Wedding Singer, 50 First Dates, Starter for Ten, I Do, Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, Friends with Benefits (a cover version, performed by Grant-Lee Phillips, is used in the soundtrack of the film) and Me and You. The post-grunge band Oleander covered the song on their 1999 album February Son.

Boys

12/06/2018
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Squares in December: Day 6: Time

Becky’s squares in December theme is TIME.

Frozen in time…

I know the video is not in square format, but growing up in the 60’s and 70’s the term “square” was used to describe people who weren’t “with it” or “progressive”, stuck in the old ways of the 50’s, not moving along with the times. Square was slang for a person who was conventional and old-fashioned. My father was anything but that. There was no generation gap between us as I was growing up. He  has been gone for 13 years now, but I am fortunate to have recordings of him singing, made when he was in his early 20’s. His voice forever with me, frozen in time.

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12/04/2018
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Squares in December: Day 4: Time

Becky’s squares in December theme is TIME.

Time heals all wounds…I broke my elbow in September 2012… it was a long haul to recovery, 2 surgeries, and close to a year of physical therapy. After 3 weeks in a cast, my arm would not bend at all, which makes one appreciate all the things taken for granted, never realizing just how much one needs an arm to bend. Finally in January, (yes, 4 months later) I had made some progress, and was able to hold a coffee cup, my elbow could bend and allowed me to bring the cup to my mouth, and my arm had regained enough strength to hold it. The gift of time.

 

 

12/03/2018
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December Photo a Day Challenge: D

Deer

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12/02/2018
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RDP- Sunday= SING

I grew up singing. My father had a beautiful voice and I can remember singing with him going back to when I was 5. We sang My Funny Valentine together. Once in my teens he worked with me on how to breathe properly to sing, not singing from the top of my throat, but rather from the diaphragm. Singing and playing the guitar were an escape for me in my teens. I could lose myself for hours figuring out the folk songs I loved and singing to my heart’s content. I played and sang in a local coffee house on the campus of a college in town, and played in a local bar on Wednesday nights, even though I was under the drinking age. (I was 16, the drinking age 18) A friend of my father’s had a recording studio in NYC and invited me to come in on a Sunday in 1974 to record some of the songs I enjoyed playing and singing. 

The first song is Age by Jim Croce. It became a joke in our family as the word “ideals” in the song became ‘Hideals” as I breathed into the mic making the I sound like an H.

Winter Song by Harry Chapin. My father and I used to sing this together- he would do the harmonies. I can still hear his voice on the last line, …still lingers… he would go high on the word lingers and I would go low.

Sing

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