Posts Categorized: music, the internet, and life

A fava bean day

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Those tall stalks bending over with the weight of their huge pods, warm from the sun…they called to me. So I harvested a few favas. I had the last batch fresh, but they were gone so quickly it was frustrating. A gallon of pods reduces down to less than a quart of hulled beans reduces… Read more »

Victor Jara

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It is a good day to remember Chilean folksinger and poet Victor Jara. Jara was murdered by the Pinochet regime 35 years ago. One of his murderers has finally been convicted. Jara’s memory and music live on. I can’t write more movingly than has already been done, so go read, see, and listen.

Santa Cruz street music

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Yesterday, after buying a sunflower at the downtown farmers’ market, I parked my bike to hang out and listen to the Zimbabwean marimba band. (Add “bouncing dorkily to traditional African rhythms” to the list of stuff white people like!) Normally I’d pass them by, finding the repetitive tunes extremely boring. Yesterday was different. I was tired and stressed. The music was medicine. The ringing harmonies resonated in my chest and got me breathing more deeply and smiling.

Born-again catalog model?

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photo credit: Gary Denness Saw a guy walking down Soquel Avenue. He wore snugly-fitting sparkling white jeans and a navy polo shirt, and sported wavy dark brown superhero hair. He held up in front of him a small cross made of two unpeeled sticks lashed together, and gazed solemnly and unwaveringly ahead as he paced… Read more »