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Writer's pictureThomas Tittmann

Happy Birthday, KAREN,...a VET...eran of 34 years...

Updated: Nov 22, 2023

According to my calculations, this is the anniversary of your arrival date...





Here's the pick of my litter...selected especially for big sister - EMMA GRACE...




Maybe you can get two...A onsie for Shannon and a 34-sie for you...



To help you celebrate, I went to my license plate collection and retrieved some appropriate ones...






Birthing room soundtrack



"Mama Tried" is a popular Grateful Dead tune. Mickey Hart is one of their two drummers. He's "performed" for all ages - from birth to old-but-young-at-heart...

At that end, he's collaborated for years with world famous neuroscientists like Dr. Adam Gazzaley to use music as medicine in ways that can help older folks with cognitive impairment issues. I've previously posted about this.


In the next video, he describes how he created a sonic environment to welcome his son into our shared world.


"'Music to Be Born By' is an album by percussionist Mickey Hart that is based on the fetal heartbeat of his son Taro Hart, who was born on January 13, 1983. The album was released in 1989 by Rykodisc, and was later reissued by Smithsonian Folkways as part of their Mickey Hart Collection."


"At the time of the album's release, Taro Hart was credited as being 'the world's youngest recording artist.'"





MoMA..."Birth of the World"




And one in spirit of the Grateful Dead:




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