Your Own Inner Child

Your Own Inner Child

Your Own Inner Child
Hold closely yet loosely

your own inner child,

for it weighs but lightly,

travels quite nicely,

and when things go amiss

will lead you across
any abyss.

HL April, 2008

Save the Children - In honor of those who lost their lives at Sandy Hook

"I just want to ask a question; who really cares?" - Marvin Gaye

Save the Children - In honor of those who lost their lives to gun violence at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Newtown, CT, December 14, 2012

On The Death Of Friends In Childhood

On The Death Of Friends In Childhood

by Donald Justice

We shall not ever meet them bearded in heaven

Nor sunning themselves among the bald of hell;

If anywhere, in the deserted schoolyard at twilight,

forming a ring, perhaps, or joining hands

In games whose very names we have forgotten.

Come memory, let us seek them there in the shadows.

Chase Kowalski, Age 7

A Refusal to Mourn the Death by Fire of a Child

A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London

by Dylan Thomas

The games boys play or, diamonds are a girl's best friend

The games boys play or diamonds are a girl's best friend. 

The world mourned last June, when, five bare days before the nuptials, 26 year old buxom blonde (now there's a surprise) Crystal Harris, broke off her engagement to her 86 year old Pay Pal and fiancee, Hugh Hefner. 

High Apple Pie in the Sky Hopes

Any time you're feeling low, 'stead of lettin' go, just remember that Frank Sinatra and Eddie (The Wells Fargo Wagon Kid) Hodges once shared a hole in the head, high hopes and a 1959 Academy Award for this charmingly silly little ditty. 

The Frank Sinatra Show

Some Say a Heart Is Just Like a Wheel

This poignant love song, written by the late Kate McGarrigle and her sister Anna, is performed here by the three McGarrigle sisters, Maria Maulder and Linda Ronstadt.

Some say a heart is just like a wheel 
When you bend it, you can't mend it 

Dave Brubeck: "a wigging cat with a way out wail"

Dave Brubeck died yesterday at age 92. When he was featured in a Time magazine cover story in 1954, he was referred to as a "wigging cat with a way out wail". I don't know about that but ...

25 years aboard the Night Train: tracing the roots of a riff

25 years aboard the Night Train or tracing the roots of a riff. 

Tom Jones, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young are a Long Time Gone

Quibble with or wonder about his career choices, but when they gave Tom Jones a TV show, he knew what to do with it.

Tom Jones and CSNY are a Long Time Gone 1970

You Don't Have to Cry - 1970