Month: July 2019

July 14 – Yippee-ki-yi-yay

Yippee-ki-yi-yay
He shouts and he sings, am off
and vacationing

Love this song.

Ain’t much for cowboy songs, mostly, but y’all can sing this at my funeral when my ashes are tossed off the pier at Tybee into the Atlantic Ocean.

Until then, I am on vacation and singing this tune into the sunset.

When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings Writer/s: David Rawlings / Gillian Welch 

Let me tell you, buddy
There’s a faster gun
Coming over yonder
When tomorrow comes

Let me tell you, buddy
And it won’t be long
Till you find yourself singing
Your last cowboy song

Yippee-ki-iy-ay
When the round-up ends
Yippee-ki-iy-ay
And the campfire dims

Yippee-ki-iy-ay
He shouts and he sings
When a cowboy trades his spurs for wings

When they wrap my body
In the thin linen sheet
And they take my six irons
Pull the boots from my feet

Unsaddle my pony
She’ll be itching to roam
I’ll be halfway to heaven
Under horsepower of my own

Yippee-ki-iy-ay
When the round-up ends
Yippee-ki-iy-ay
And the campfire dims

Yippee-ki-iy-ay
He shouts and he sings
When a cowboy trades his spurs for wings

Yippee-ki-iy-ay
I’m glory-bound
No more jingle jangle
I lay my guns down

Yippee-ki-iy-ay
He shouts and he sings
When a cowboy trades his spurs for wings 

July 13 – Every Day a Risk

Every Day a Risk
What’s going on here? Song says,
“The Land of the Free”

Every day, it is a risk’: immigrant communities paralyzed by fear of impending Ice raids

“It doesn’t make sense. They’re not trying to arrest terrorists or criminals, just undocumented people,” she said. “We just want to pay the bills.”

Koop and Hendrikje Hofman – Ottawa County, Michigan 1900?

My Great Grand Parents, Koop and Hendrikje Hofman, immigrated from Holland in 1868 and got married the same year.

They bought a farm in Ottawa County, near Jamestown, Michigan (i-196 crosses the farmland) and raised a family.

in the 1900 Census, information shows that Great Grandpa had, after 32 years, filed naturalization papaers.

For at least 32 years, apparently, he did not file or register as an immigrant.

But he never had to worry that someone was going to knock on his door and demand to see his paperwork.

This was America.

This is America.

It seem to me like this county used to stand taller.

At least we weren’t so scared.

Maybe we gain a smidgen of protection.

But at what cost?

Truthfully, here in Georgia, where sidearms are worn by citizens in grocery stores, its not immigrants I worry about.

Just what are those weapon toting folks afraid of?

I carry a Bible and a copy of the US Constitution and I stride this world in Seven League Boots.

I invite everyone to join me.

July 12 – those times that life is

those times that life is
a documentary by
Salvador Dali

The Persistence of Memory (La persistencia de la memoria) 1931 by artist Salvador Dalí,

From Wikipeida: The well-known surrealist piece introduced the image of the soft melting pocket watch.

It epitomizes Dalí’s theory of “softness” and “hardness”, which was central to his thinking at the time.

As Dawn Adès wrote, “The soft watches are an unconscious symbol of the relativity of space and time, a Surrealist meditation on the collapse of our notions of a fixed cosmic order”.

This interpretation suggests that Dalí was incorporating an understanding of the world introduced by Albert Einstein’s theory of special relativity.

Asked by Ilya Prigogine whether this was in fact the case, Dalí replied that the soft watches were not inspired by the theory of relativity, but by the surrealist perception of a Camembert melting in the sun.

When T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) submitted the manuascript for one of his books, his editor wrote and asked, “You refer to your camel using the names Jedda, Jetta and Jetha. Which is correct?”

Lawrence wrote back, “She was a noble beast.”