Ellen, with every visit to your home, Eileen and I feel like we're going back to the Garden... ...surrounded, as we are, by all your bountiful and beautiful growing things not only outside...BUT INSIDE your home... ...and complemented by the delicious foods on your table... Thomas Kinkade: Painter of LIGHT SOURCE I chose this next image and the next song that follows because it features two singers - one male, one female - more accurately reflecting the nature of the Mystery that began life here on Earth... ...As I now see it..."G-d" hit the "PLAY" button and the Song of the Universe began... Art Garfunkel, Diana Krall - Morning Has Broken (audio) (02:51) "God's recreation"...sounds like a playground...Eden saw play... ...So, let us PLAY... Morning Has Broken - performed by Orla Fallon. Originally composed by author Eleanor Farjeon. (02:59) Sing Along Time I'm providing the words so Arlo won't make an example of anyone he spots who's NOT singing along... Garden Song - Arlo Guthrie Inch by inch, row by row Gonna make this garden grow Gonna mulch it deep and low Gonna make it fertile ground Inch by inch, row by row Please bless these seeds I sow Please keep them safe below 'Til the rain comes tumbling down Pullin' weeds and pickin' stones We are made of dreams and bones Need a place to call my own 'Cause the time is close at hand Grain for grain, sun and rain Find my way in nature's chain Till my body and my brain Tell the music of the land Inch by inch, row by row Gonna make this garden grow Gonna mulch it deep and low Gonna make it fertile ground Plant your rows straight and long Season with a prayer and song Mother Earth will make you strong If you give her loving care Inch by inch, row by row Gonna make this garden grow Gonna mulch it deep and low Gonna make it fertile ground Slug by slug, weed by weed Boy this garden's got me t'd All the insects come to feed On my tomato plants Sunburnt face, skinned up knees The kitchen's chocked with zucchinis I'm shopping at the A&P's Next time I get the chance Old crow watching from a tree He's got his hungry eye on me In my garden I'm as free As that feathered thief up there Inch by inch, row by row Gonna make this garden grow Gonna mulch it deep and low Gonna make it fertile ground ...Like father...like son... Arlo Guthrie - The Garden Song - 1987 (09:00) Finding Shelter in our Gardens Secret Garden - The Peaceful Garden (06:58) Reminding us of whose lands we are walking on... Back to the Garden - Yantra de Vilder (07:08) DESSERT TIME Wishing you 78 more revolutions around the SUN... #music #Ellen #Eileen #garden #Eden #ThomasKinkade #ArtGarfunkel #DianaKrall #OrlaFallon #EleanorFarjeon #ArloGuthrie #YantradeVilder #HappyBirthday

Seeing it's Sunday... Entrance Hymn...Her...They...Them... Los Simpsons - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (Iron Butterfly) (01:24) Brew Crew: Here's my next entry in your employee "contest". Comes all the way from my sister-in-law LINDA in Connecticut. I Made Ina Garten’s Meat Loaf Recipe for Dinner Tonight—And Will Again and Again - Taste of Home [from the article] We love Ina Garten’s entertaining tips and cooking style. Rather than spending hours on fussy, complicated dishes, she focuses on simple, comforting foods that are delicious and make everyone feel right at home. And what’s more comforting than a classic, family-favorite meat loaf? True to the Barefoot Contessa’s style, this recipe has no hard-to-find ingredients or unfamiliar techniques. Ina’s simple meat loaf uses ground chuck, onions, breadcrumbs and fresh thyme, with ketchup spread over the top. Meatloaf 1550's Meatloaf 1950's Mushrooms 1960's #music #humor #meatloaf #mushrooms #TheSimpsons #InaGarten #Nostradamus #Mario

If we're gonna slip off the VEGAN wagon...We may as well GO ALL THE WAY... ...TO HELL...and BAT... POST NO RECIPES... Let's See What's Cookin' at Witches Brew... Yesterday, some of the crew at the Witches Brew Coffee House in West Hempstead were foolin' around and looking for meatloaf recipes. So, I went home and asked Eileen for a great recipe she had in a cookbook we bought from a church we attended for over 30 years. In all places, my motto has always been: "I you feed me...I will come!" NEXT COURSE A few years ago, as soon as I saw this "Grate" and funny cartoon, I knew I had to add it to a recipe that contained an important main ingredient: the GRATEFUL DEAD. GD & G-d: Grateful Dead & Bible - Chapter 1: St. Stephen (feast day Dec. 26) Bear Stew Turning the Dinner Tables Prehistory...Before Meatloaf...there was Bear Cat Stew... Hollywood Argyles "Alley Oop" (03:44) A Modern Alley Oop For the board riders at the Brew Our Main Dinner Act...skip the candlelight...turn on the dashboard lights... Meat Loaf - Paradise By The Dashboard Light (08:25) To Hell and Bat... Meat Loaf: Bat Out Of Hell (Hard Rock Live, 1998) (10:15) Following the lyrics: For a family affair... #music #humor #meatloaf #MeatLoaf #WitchesBrewCoffeeHouse #vegan #GratefulDead #fish #HollywoodArgyles #DickClark #skateboard #bear #Bible

SIRIUSly: Pay attention to the published cautions BEFORE looking up to the heavens... Here's one from the American Astronomical Association. Alternate version: The Light will set us free...BUT first it might make us miserable...as it reveals the TRUTH... EXTRA-Special Effects... How to Sync Pink Floyd’s ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ With the Solar Eclipse - MSN 30 Eclipse Songs - Ultimate Classic Rock My Attic Revelation... ..."Once in a while we get shown the light in the strangest of places...if we look at it right" SOURCE: Dead.net My "Empty Nest Symphony" From: Thomas Tittmann Date: December 25, 2023 at 5:49:13 PM ESTTo: Thomas Tittmann Subject: Attics of my Life: an Empty Nest Symphony For parents...present and future... The "Empty Nest Symphony" is playing in the den as I'm in the attic bringing down a few more Christmas decorations. John is home today and playing holiday favorites as he rehearses for various school performances as their accompanist... Sometimes, as I walk past his empty bedroom, I think that it might be easier on my emotions if he didn't make these appearances...so my empty nest syndrome would retreat into the background...🤔🙁 I didn't plan this next song...but my tale led me here... This Texas children's chorus likes to do covers of the Grateful Dead's tunes...SEE next heading... ...there are many more images on the Grateful Web... 'Attics Of My Life' by the Barton Hills Choir (04:25) The Annotated "Attics of My Life" READER: I might stop this way again and feature David's reflections in a DEADicated post... A picture's worth a...1,000... Children are sent to us to take us FURTHER...Our son John has and continues to serve in this mission... MORE LIGHT... Blinded By The Light: The 7 Best Movies Featuring Solar Eclipses - MSM "He was just blinded by the light Cut loose like a deuce another runner in the night Blinded by the light Mama always told me not to look into the sights of the sun Whoa, but but mama that's where the fun is" Bruce Springsteen - Blinded By The Light - The Song (From VH1 Storytellers) (05:18) REVELATION: MORE SIGNS AND WONDERS I felt the Earth move under my feet...The King is coming back...as WOMEN Be sure to "SEE" the 3 other ECLIPSE DAY 2024 posts...no special precautions for viewing... #music #humor #eclipse #GratefulDead #PinkFloyd #light #LedZeppelin #Jesus #BruceSpringsteen #BartonHillsChoir #John #earthquake

My artist friend Mike sent me this inspiring video from his Deep Space Nine outpost in the deserts of New Mexico...As I watched, I had copious tears of amazement and gratitude... Pale Blue Dot - Facebook (under 5 parsecs...) SOURCE Every month on this calendar is one and a quarter billion years long... Carl Sagan - Cosmos - Cosmic Calendar (04:57) For this next video, let's watch it and hear it as the imaginative poetry that it is... Psalm 139 Reading - "Lord You Have Searched Me..." (03:56) The Grateful Dead...Consciousness and Social Justice... What are we teaching our children...By our EXAMPLE??? "Picture a bright blue ball just spinning, spinning free Dizzy with eternity Paint it with a skin of sky, brush in some clouds and sea Call it home for you and me A peaceful place, or so it looks from space A closer look reveals the human race Full of hope, full of grace, is the human face But afraid we may lay our home to waste..." Young Social Activist Artists...Repainting the scene... Grateful Dead - Throwing Stones (Official Music Video) (04:38) Cosmic Charlie Brown... Hang on, SNOOPY...SNOOPY hang on... WAITless... This Is America, Charlie Brown | The NASA Space Station | Warner Bros. Entertainment (01:31) There are a lot more of Charlie-in-Space...So, go exploring and find your own way... After Today's Light Show...Let's pause and reflect... SOURCE: Dead.net FOR GEEKS...and other curious seekers of the truth... Kessel Run and Parsecs - Star Wars Science - Rational Fanboy (01:50) "Knights" in white satin... "Just what the truth is...we can't say any more..." The Moody Blues: The Night: Nights In White Satin - Late Lament (07:40) For Further Revelations... Be sure to "SEE" the 3 other ECLIPSE DAY 2024 posts...no special precautions for viewing... #music #humor #eclipse #MoodyBlues #GratefulDead #BobWeir #CarlSagan #CharlieBrown #Peanuts #StarWars #HarrisonFord #NeilDegrasseTyson #Psalm139 #Mike

The Grateful Dead Casey Jones Cover with Lyrics.Dedicated to all the Deadheads out there (04:17) "We don't see things as THEY are, we see them as WE are..." Fitting book title for Eclipse Day 2024 [Amazon review] A Café in Space has been the only literary journal devoted to novelist/diarist Anais Nin since 2003. This anthology represents the contents of the fifteen annual issues, including previously unpublished diary entries and correspondence by Nin; previously unpublished correspondence by Henry Miller, Rupert Pole, Alfred Perles and Hugh Guiler; articles by Nin/Miller/Durrell scholars and aficionados Janet Fitch, Ruth Charnock, Anita Jarczok, James M. Decker, Benjamin Franklin V and many others; poetry, art, photography and short fiction; a complete index of all the contributions since the inception of the journal in 2003. Edited by Paul Herron. [SOURCE] Eclipse from Tennessee... In my Avis days, I worked with Kevin who was first one of our highly trained members of the Avis Technician Guild...who then transitioned to manager in Tennessee. He also happens to enjoy a bunch of musical technicians I love...Read on... On Eclipse Day, he sent me this capture: Kevin I enlarged your photo...and I see a black third eye... Gonna include it... Thanks! SOURCE: Solar Eclipse Nashville Grateful Dead - Tennessee Jed - 4/22/78 Nashville, TN (08:59) Eclipse from the Golden Arches state of mind... Another of our Avis Master Techs and Deadheads - Mark - sent me this for Eclipse Day '24...as he saw it in St. Louis...Where our Stealie is the center of our Universe: Grateful Dead - Dark Star (Beautiful Jam) Feb 18, 1971 (Remastered) (10:58) Inner Vision: The only way OUT...in IN... I AM encouraged by presence of young musicians in this next offering... Within You Without You (1967) - George Harrison, arr. by Alexis C. Lamb (08:37) Science and Mysticism... Pineal Gland - The Cleveland Clinic [from the article] Your pineal gland is a tiny endocrine gland in the middle of your brain that helps regulate your body's circadian rhythm by secreting the hormone melatonin. Why is the pineal gland called the “third eye?” Since the pineal gland was the last of the endocrine glands to be discovered — and scientists still aren’t fully sure of all of its functions — the pineal gland has long been a “mysterious” organ. The pineal gland was commonly called the “third eye” for many reasons, including its location deep in the center of the brain and its connection to light via the circadian rhythm and melatonin secretion. Many spiritual traditions believe it serves as a connection between the physical and spiritual worlds. Chakras are prominent in certain forms of Hinduism and Tantric Buddhism. The third eye chakra is considered to be the sixth chakra in your body. It’s believed to be linked to perception, awareness and spiritual communication and linked to the pineal gland. While there’s no scientific evidence to support these claims, many forms of spirituality and cultures emphasize the importance of the third eye chakra and the pineal gland. For Further Revelations... Be sure to "SEE" the 3 other ECLIPSE DAY 2024 posts...no special precautions for viewing... #music #humor #eclipse #KevinD #MarkB #GratefulDead #AnaisNin #StLouis #Nashville #Tennesse #ClevelandClinic #PinealGland #InnerVision #mysticism #eyes

Barbara, a friend, educator and fan of the Grateful Dead sent me her photos from today's celestial events... Her choice of instrumentation reminded me of this video from John's childhood days. Me? I'm in my second childhood...See below... The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars (1998) Trailer (VHS Capture) (01:11) These balloons intercept the rescue party...reminding them to be peaceful...... The Brave Little Toaster: Floating (02:39) This post is writing itself...At the mention of "diamonds" in the previous song...this came into view in the night sky... Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond [Official Music Video] (13:22) Cereal Boxes...3D Viewing Glasses SOURCE: ETSY BLUE & RED...Seems like they could only view America's two leading political parties...NOW, imagine if they looked with both eyes WIDE OPEN, so the colors merged into PURPLE... Introducing the Purple Party - by Kurt Andersen for New York Magazine (2006) [from the article] Less than a third of the electorate are happy to call themselves Republicans, and only a bit more say they’re Democrats—but between 33 and 39 percent now consider themselves neither Democrat nor Republican. In other words, there are more of us than there are of either of them. What’s changed hardly at all over the past 30 years, however, is people’s sense of where, in rough terms, they stand ideologically. Almost half of Americans consistently call themselves moderates. (continue reading at the above link) Cereal Boxes...Secret Decoder Rings SOURCE: LinkedIn [from the post]  Psst….! “Hey Jimmy…!” I whispered, “Here read this note.” The note had this written on it: IBQ’P JHHQ XCQHO ZOXPP We were in 5th grade math class at Travis Elementary School. Jimmy took the note and as he glanced at it, a strange puzzled look came over his face. He looked over at me, shrugged his shoulders and whispered back at me, “What’s this mean.” I giggled a little and whispered, “Ya Gotta have a Secret Decoder Ring to figure it out.” “Fred, Jimmy…? What are you two talking about during class?” Mr. Erenstine asked us. “Ahh, Nothing Ma’am.” I stammered back. “Well, stop talking and pay attention.” She snapped. “Yes Ma’am.” We both answered quickly. After class Jimmy came over to me and asked excitedly, “Whoa…! Where did you get the cool Decoder Ring?” “It was free in the box of cereal my mom bought.” I answered. “Let me see it.” He said, and we proceeded to marvel at it’s wonderful construction. It was too keen and super neat. It was just a cheap plastic ring with a gold colored looking paint on it and had two dials on the top. The inside one was stationary and the outside ring could be rotated around the inside one. They both had all the letters of the alphabet on them and you could move to outside ring to wherever you wanted. The trick was to let the other person know where you had put the first letter A of the outside ring over which ever letter you chose on the inside ring. (continue in the link above) Second Childhood... Second Childhood | Little Rascals Shorts | 1936 | FULL SHORT | Our Gang (19:09) [from the description] A lonely, rich, hypochondriac is celebrating her 65th birthday in the same manner in which she observes the other 364 days of the year by complaining, berating her servants, taking her pills and grumping about everything around her, including the sunshine. Seems MUSIC...began her transformation...turned her around... "You're only young once" she says as she dons the roller skates... For Further Revelations... Be sure to "SEE" the 3 other ECLIPSE DAY 2024 posts...no special precautions for viewing... #music #humor #eclipse #BarbaraH #CerealBoxes #SpecialGlasses #SecretDecoderRings #BraveLittleToaster #Mars #LittleRascals #SecondChildhood #PinkFloyd

CAROLE CAUTION: The next video contains earthquake images that might frighten some... Carole King • I Feel the Earth Move (02:56) MARTIKA Martika - I Feel The Earth Move (04:07) BERTHA "I had a hard run, runnin' from your window. I was all night running, running, Lord I wonder if you care, I had a run in, run around, and run down. Run around the corner, corner, Lord run smack in to a tree." Bertha - Grateful Dead Wanna get lost...and found...on side trip...side road? Then go exploring with this next artist/musician/guide... Bertha (Grateful Dead cover - Deadly Lamarr (05:45) "Wild thing, I think you move me But I wanna know for sure So come on and hold me tight You move me" WILD THING...YOU MOVE ME... The Troggs - Wild thing 2023, remastered & musically visualised (02:52) QUAKE, RATTLE & ROLL... "The following essay is adapted from Into the Mystic: The Visionary and Ecstatic Roots of 1960s Rock and Roll by Christopher Hill, published by Inner Traditions. [from the opening] Cultures around the world anchor their identities in sacred texts. Preserved physically or in memory, the texts serve to hold back incursions from the world that could overwhelm their traditions. For marginal American populations, separated by their work, race, religion, geography, or economic status from the larger society, the text was often their music. In the 1950s some young American intellectuals rediscovered this music and thought that they could use it in an analogous way, to resist absorption into the consensus culture. Their attitude toward the old music itself was mostly conservative. They wanted to protect and preserve it—not experiment with it, expand it, or transform it. The Grateful Dead’s attitude toward American musical traditions was not simply a veneration of roots but an appreciation of roots for the new uses that could be made of them. Unlike the New York folkies, the Dead were not looking to the music for a politically useful past. For them the old music was a place where the profane time of contemporary America opened out into story, allowing room for imagination. The old music suggested things to them that that psychedelics affirmed and amplified. Folk music for the frontiers of consciousness... [click next link to explore this essay "Furthur"] Earthquake Country: The Grateful Dead in the Land of Myth - by Christopher Hill ELLE & TONI...TAKE US INTO THE MYSTIC... "We were born before the wind Also younger than the sun Ere the bonnie boat was won as we sailed into the mystic Hark, now hear the sailors cry Smell the sea and feel the sky Let your soul and spirit fly into the mystic And when that fog horn blows I will be coming home And when the fog horn blows I want to hear it I don't have to fear it And I want to rock your gypsy soul Just like way back in the days of old And magnificently we will flow into the mystic When that fog horn blows you know I will be coming home And when that fog horn whistle blows I got to hear it I don't have to fear it And I want to rock your gypsy soul Just like way back in the days of old And together we will flow into the mystic Come on girl... Too late to stop now..." Into the Mystic - Van Morrison cover - Elle & Toni - feat. Sammy Copley (03:33) I'M A "FAN" OF PUTTING BERTHA ON A PEDESTAL "I had to move, really had to move, That's why if you please, I am on my bendin' knees, Bertha don't you come around here anymore." I'm a "fan" of Bertha and have included this wild wind machine that can move the Dead in several posts...One follows: Jerry Garcia Week: 9 DAZE OF HAIGHT – Day #8: HUNTER Fan Appreciation Day…”Let there be songs to... Bertha S01E02 The Windmills (14:37) --YouTube has additional episodes of this British TV series...a series that includes a robot named "Tom"... Be Grateful...there are Dead music boxes... Backstory...Last month...see text after image and song... Ripple by The Grateful Dead - Music Box Version (03:45) I added these comments: @thomastittmann2967 1 month ago “I’m amazed but not surprised”…Now a young 76, I’ve been using this phrase to describe how I feel when I find things like your video. Seems these unveilings are becoming a regular part of my extraordinary “ordinary” life. A few minutes ago as I was closing our window shades, I walked by some shelves in our son’s piano room and noticed a music box. It plays “You light up my life.” This aptly describes how he affects my wife and I. I was then reminded of Caroline - a friend who has a wonderful collection of music boxes that have been exhibited in various places on Long Island. Add to all this, I am an enthusiastic fan of all versions of the Grateful Dead. And “Ripple” is in my top 5. Imagine how grateful are those souls in “heaven”…They now have Jerry, Pigpen and most recently Robert Hunter. Thanks for warming my heart with your talent… tOM The Grateful Dead - Stella Blue (Music Box) (02:25) Bertha Music Box - Grateful Boxes At the above link, click on this next image to see 9 images... AND...ON A THRONE QUEEN/SAINT BERTHA [from the article] "English history is full of powerful queens who have each left their mark on our culture with their strong and vibrant lives. Women like Elizabeth I and Mary I, who ruled in their own right, as well as famous wives of kings such as Eleanor of Aquitaine or Margaret of Anjou, are inspirational and respected historical names. Yet women are far more likely to be forgotten in the swell of history. Despite their importance at the time, their impact is often snubbed by historians in succeeding centuries. Queen Bertha of Kent, Princess of the Franks, is such a woman, whose influence on Britain could be, but should not be, overlooked." (continue reading at the next link) Queen Bertha - historic-uk.com "Bertha" - Goddess of Light Bertha is a female Germanic name, from Old High German berhta meaning "bright one". It was usually a short form of Anglo Saxon names Beorhtgifu meaning "bright gift" or Beorhtwynn meaning "bright joy". The name occurs as a theonym, surviving as Berchta, a figure in Alpine folklore connected to the Wild Hunt, probably an epithet of *Frijjō in origin. SOURCE SOURCE "The bus came by and I got on, that's when it all began..." Going Furthur Documentary Official Trailer (02:40) #music #humor #earthquake #CaroleKing #Martika #Bertha #GratefulDead #DeadlyLamarr #TheTroggs #ChristopherHill #ElleAndToni #SammyCopley #JerryGarcia #QueenBertha #SaintBertha #theonym #KenKesey #TomWolfe #bus #Furthur #Peanuts #CharlieBrown #MusicBoxes

I'm taking West Hempstead Community Support Association President Maureen Greenberg's 4/2/24 email update to members regarding the Sanitary District 6 building construction project - as my cue to put before all of us a matter of even greater importance to all Nassau County residents - especially our children. It's been sitting in my Drafts folder for a while. To get our attention, I'm using an attention-getting title for this post... WHY? Because good planets are hard to find... BOTTOM LINE: New York City has a better recycling program than ALL the cities, towns and villages in Nassau County. AND, NYC's 5 counties are centrally managed...unlike Nassau County where each of the cities, towns and villages make up their own rules... NYC's Centrally-managed Recycling Program SOURCE Meanwhile, here on Long Island... FYI - Nassau County's website doesn't list a department for recycling information...WHY? Because it falls to the individual townships to establish the rules. These include: Town of Hempstead, Town of North Hempstead and Town of Oyster Bay. Also included are two cities: City of Long Beach and City of Glen Cove. SOURCE Also, Suffolk County's website doesn't list a recycling department. It's a poor recycling day in our neighborhood... My family lives across the street from GW and Tuesday's our recycling day. From my Tuesday walks around town, I notice how many families are not following the very limited Town of Hempstead recycling program rules...Especially regarding PLASTICS and PAPER. So, Hempstead Town Supervisor Don Clavin (and all the other town, city and village elected officials), you might as well recycle the ones you currently DON'T take…people are already giving them to you...and I'm sure you...I mean WE...are paying your employees to separate the "wheat" from the "chaff'... cc: County Executive Bruce Blakeman Town of Hempstead Recycling Rules SOURCE KEY MISSING ITEMS Other recyclable plastics...3...4...5... Packaging/Shipping paper Bubble wrap (currently also not recyclable in NYC) Nassau County's municipalities need to upgrade what they accept beyond... The PRIME Suspect... The source of the increasing majority of the second and third bulleted items (plastics & shipping/packaging paper) is this ubiquitous company...they are a PRIME offender... How to recycle Amazon packaging (yes, all of it) (April 2023) - BUT, don't get our hopes up...they have a long way to go... --Amazon has launched many sustainability efforts but it's still not easy to recycle its packaging. Amazon has become an increasingly ubiquitous part of our lives, as more and more people receive weekly — and even daily — packages from the company. But as these packages pile up on doorsteps all over the world, a glaring issue has emerged: How do you recycle all those damn boxes, bubble envelopes, and Prime Now paper bags? Amazon does provide guidelines around the topic, and customers in the U.S. whose orders are fulfilled by Amazon can click on any order in the Amazon app and scroll down to the bottom to view recycling or discard instructions. People can also ask Alexa or Siri "How do I recycle my Amazon packaging?" and both will direct them to Amazon's guidelines. But David Pinsky, a senior plastics campaigner at Greenpeace, doesn't think this information's very useful. [Continue reading at the first link] C'mon, Kids, let's teach the grownups... ADULTS: Let’s get our kids involved in writing letters to our elected representatives…and persuading their parents to do the same…it’s THEIR collective futures we’re messing with… Jack Johnson: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle - 3 R Song | Explore Films (03:26) LIVE Recycling Song Jack Johnson 3Rs (02:06) ANIMATED Recycle | Earth Day Song for Kids | Jack Hartmann (02:39) (with commercial) It's a BEAUTIFUL RECYCLING DAY on Sesame Street Murray asks if his milk jug can be recycled...and if it can...what can it become... ...a truck...Hmm... Sesame Street: Murray Visits a Recycling Center | Murray Had a Little Lamb (06:03) "Keep on Recyclin'" Marching Music...Let's take this message to the streets Steve Forbert - "Good Planets Are Hard To Find" (Underground Garage Mix) (Lyric Video) (03:17) GRATE Planets are even harder to find... Date Issued: 2018 Abstract/Description: Picture a bright blue ball just spinning, spinning free, dizzy with possibilities. The lyrics in the Grateful Dead’s music reflect key themes such as care for environmental health as well as other natural aspects of life. This thesis demonstrates the connection between the history of the Grateful Dead and the rising effectiveness of the green movement that continues to grow today. I examine how the Grateful Dead has inspired generations of environmental activists from the 1960s to the year 2018. I emphasize that the band has emerged as a leader in promoting sustainable music concerts, performing in venues that strive to create an environmentally aware, as well as enjoyable, concert experience. Through its remaining members and their actions, the Grateful Dead helps us to remember that one man gathers what another man spills, a mantra that many Deadheads live by to work toward a cleaner planet. Department of Continuing DEADucation... Click here to read Allison's mindful...musical...thesis... #music #humor #recycling #children #kids #TownOfHempstead #WestHempstead #NassauCounty #DonClavin #BruceBlakeman #WestHempsteadCommunitySupportAssociation #MaureenGreenberg #NYC #NewYorkCity #SuffolkCounty #Amazon #Prime #JackJohnson #JackHartmann #SteveForbert #GratefulDead #AllisonGatyas

ACT I: Gratefulness never dies... LET US IMAGINE...Jesus' first words...as recorded in my TPT version... ...Over 2,000 years ago, Jesus on that first Easter...standing OUTSIDE that tomb (or the blackboards outside the Witches Brew Coffee House in West Hempstead) and wearing this T as an expression of his GRATEfulness at being alive... JAY, nice shot! You can add "Paparazzi" to your existing credentials that include "Barista" and "T-shirt Teacher"...FYI - Jay at the Witches Brew continues to introduce me to new bands via his cool shirts. Now IMAGINE 1995...as Jerry goes from "Knocking on Heaven's Door...to being gratefully welcomed... Here's how he's feelin... Grateful Dead - Knockin' On Heaven's Door 7-7-89 (08:55) Knockin on Heaven's Door (w Joan Baez) Garcia & Weir (acoustic) 12-17-1987 Warfield Thea., SF. ***BRIEF INTERMISSION/PERSONAL NOTE In my 20's, at house, apartment and hall parties, the different musical factions would battle for control of the record player [Youngsters: Google this term: ))) ] A major rivalry was between us Deadheads and the Stoners. OKAY, for the record, I'm "restraining" myself...just one... OKAY, back to the show... ACT II: Why Easter is the most rock and roll religious holiday - The Spectator Easter is by far the most rock and roll religious holiday. Christmas might be the time when the pop vultures circle, plucking from the bones of garish sentiment, but the wham-bam narrative mic-drops of Holy Week are of a different order. Easter has provided a dramatic template for every rock opera, concept album, heroic comeback and combustible band dynamic this side of the Chatterley trial and the first Beatles LP. ‘Jesus died for somebody’s sins, but not mine,’ runs the opening line on Patti Smith’s debut album, Horses. Maybe so, but she understood the innate power of this stuff. Smith’s second LP is called Easter, and it is replete with overtly Christian imagery. The liner notes quote from Timothy 4:7 – ‘I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course’ – and the title track is doused in the blood of Christ and the language of resurrection: ‘I rend, I end, I return…’ It all begins with Palm Sunday, which finds our smalltown hero prepping for a big symbolic city gig; think of the exiled Bob Marley returning to Kingston in 1978 to perform at the triumphant One Love concert. Then comes the Last Supper, the tense summit at which the lead singer tells the band it’s all over – he already knows that one of the gang has opted for a lucrative but highly controversial and ultimately doomed solo deal. Following in short order, crucifixion and resurrection lay the ground for the perennial rhythms of rock and roll redemption. Namely, the final farewell show and the comeback tour, rites dutifully followed by everyone from Frank Sinatra to Elton John. Betrayal, of course, is essential to any compelling rock narrative. ‘Until the End of the World’ by U2 moves through the stages of Judas’s treachery towards Jesus, from the Last Supper to the kiss in the garden of Gethsemane and his eventual suicide, framing their interactions in the language of sexual betrayal. ‘In the garden I was playing the tart,’ sings Judas. ‘I kissed your lips and broke your heart.’ Mick Jagger, performing as the personification of Satan, pays a visit close to this scene in the opening verse of ‘Sympathy for the Devil’: ‘I was around when Jesus Christ had his moment of doubt and pain/ Made damn sure that Pilate washed his hands and sealed his fate.’ It has been said more than once that both Jagger and Bono have a Messiah complex wider than the Jordan. Then again, any lead singer worth their salt tends to get intoxicated by their own power. Just ask the Stone Roses’ Ian Brown, who sang ‘I am the Resurrection’ as though he actually believed it. The protagonist in the Who’s rock opera, Tommy, is pointedly Christ-like, while the plotline of David Bowie’s semi-conceptual The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars is essentially Biblical. A ‘leper Messiah’ arrives from some cosmic realm, stirs up quasi-religious fervour among his followers, then sacrifices himself for the kids. A rock and roll suicide (Bowie mimicked this story arc in real life by retiring Ziggy out of the blue at a concert at Hammersmith Odeon in 1973, causing much hysteria). The ‘rise and fall’ of the album title, however, omits to mention a second, more profound rising. In death, or prolonged absence, the artist-saviour commands devotion even more powerfully than in life. In this sense, Jesus will always be the ultimate rock star. Once you start looking, I’m afraid you start to see this stuff everywhere. The (contested) theological theory that Jesus endured a brief descent into hell following his crucifixion before ascending to heaven – a passage known as the Harrowing of Hell – cannot help but remind me of the rocky start to Paul Weller’s solo career, a beloved son cast out into the fiery furnaces of critical disdain before returning to favour as the newly anointed ‘Modfather’. Such parallels are both ridiculous and sublime. In 1972, Mott the Hoople wrote ‘Roll Away the Stone’, a cheery glam-rock stomp which equates the miraculous removal of the stone sealing the tomb in Golgotha from which Jesus had risen with a thwarted love affair. Inches from blasphemy, perhaps, but great fun, nonetheless. ‘Easter Parade’ by the Blue Nile, on the other hand, truly feels like holy music. If there is a single pop song that captures the stillness of a moment of wonder, the eternal Easter Sunday of the soul, then this might well be it. Written by: Graeme Thomson Article Link ACT III: A Sympathy Act...at the 1968 Rock & Roll Circus On March 18, I enjoyed this musical devilry courtesy of yet another great presentation by film maker and film historian KEITH CROCKER at the East Meadow Public Library. See more KEITH in ACT IV. At the March presentation, he related how Jagger blocked the release of this footage for many years...and eventually allowed it to be used. It seems this King of Swagger also had an insecure side and felt he had been upstaged by THE WHO and their performance... Music and horror are two of his frequent topics. I have several posts about him. The fiery guy showing his "TRUE COLORS"??? Also in attendance at the circus as well as on the bill... The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil (Official Video) [4K] (08:48) ACT IV: Another Keith who's a ringleader & ringmaster of film From Projectionist to Professor – Talking Cinematic Ambition with Keith Crocker - Messenger Papers With Dr. Faustus, MD (a.k.a, Keith Crocker)...It's not what we see...it's what we don't see... WANT MORE KEITH: To join Crocker’s presentation mailing list, contact drfaustusmd@verizon.net. Subscribers (LIKE ME) will be notified about all upcoming programming events. #music #humor #Easter #WitchesBrewCoffeeHouse #GratefulDead #JerryGarcia #JoanBaez #RollingStones #MickJagger #KeithCrocker #devil #TheWho

"Thomas Tittmann, do you continue to take Eileen to be your companion...helper...encourager...consoler...friend...?" "I STILL DEW!" Robert Plant - Morning Dew (Official Video) [HD REMASTERED] (03:31) --alternate title: "And a little child will lead us..." In the short space of his 36 years, John has taken both Eileen and I further along our individual and collective paths...He has lead...by his example... The Police Officer said, "Tom, you'd better make a decision about Eileen!" NYPD Officer Tony challenged me with these words after dinner on a Fall '72 Charismatic Renewal weekend retreat at the Bishop Molloy Retreat House in Jamaica, Queens. I was attending with my girlfriend, Eileen. Geez, as a young single guy, I just went on this weekend to have fun, sing songs and have somebody else cook and clean for me... "Better go upstairs, son, and make up your mind..." Well, I followed his advice...went up to my room where I wrestled with all kinds of critters...figuring I could make a rational decision about what was really a matter for the heart...and spirit... After many hours of confusion...tears fell, mimicking the outside weather...and I finally surrendered and asked for help...and a peace came over me... I went downstairs to the lounge, found Eileen and asked her to come upstairs...where I proposed to her in her room...We were married the following April (the 2nd) in the Passionist Monastery in Jamaica, Queens... "We met in a bar...I proposed to you in a retreat house...and we got married in a monastery..." ...and we live HOPEFULLY ever after... After he pulled us over and "cuffed" us, Eileen & I followed this Police Officer to Cincinnati... Sometime after we agreed to "marry our 'fortunes' together", Eileen and I accepted an invitation to join Officer Tony and some others from our prayer group and visit the New Jerusalem Intentional Community in Cincinnati. His hope was "TO DO" something like this back home on Long Island. Once there, we slept and ate in members' homes, celebrated "G-d" together and were introduced to the pastoral leadership of Franciscan Richard Rohr... ...and we've been learning from his alternative orthodoxy ever since...Because of their letters: O.F.M (Order of Friars Minor), I like to experience the Franciscan perspectives as a MINORITY OPINION We are so fortunate to still be traveling with friends from these early days... In penning this post, I found this YouTube channel created to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of this movement of relationship and unity: New Jerusalem YouTube Channel - includes: New Jerusalem Movie 1976 BW (35:30) (Richard in 1976) Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM Shares Some Reflections on New Jerusalem (16:27) (Richard in 2021) 1 + 1 = 3 Eileen, because you lovingly accepted my seed and nourished it...WE were gifted with... 1 JOHN... ...to take the music of our lives...add his...and "go out into the world..." "...and make music students of all nations and ages..." ...and more... Uncle Johns Band - Grateful Dead (00:16) "DEW" to his very eclectic tastes in music, John had a bigger collection of tunes than I ever did at his age...and they included...YES...the Grateful Dead... EILEEN, Thank you for waiting...many times...and seasons... Beginning in the Summer of '73 when I relocated to California...You waited for me... And throughout the ensuing 46 years, you've waited for me to "come to my senses" and realize what a gift you were...are...and will be...for me... I saved this last dance for US... Bill Medley - I Still Do (02:54) WHEN THE MUSIC'S OVER... Morning Dew - Wikipedia Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind - MonaLisa Twins ft. John Sebastian (02:30) #music #humor #Eileen #anniversary #relationship #RobertPlant #TonyKaiser #NYPD #GratefulDead #BishopMolloyRetreatHouse #Passionists #JohnSebastian #JohnTittmann #BillMedley #NewJerusalemCommunity

This last in this Semana Santa (Holy Week) series will hopefully tie some threads together...OR, where needed, will allow some to unravel... After many hours of contemplating the questions that arise about who Jesus was and why he "fell to Earth"...I offer this: to demonstrate his SOLIDARITY with our human condition...He came as ONE of us...(please see the "Praying in Solidarity" flyer below. Seeing this at the entrance to this exhibition confirmed my personal wrestling about "WHY"...)...for now... Cream - Crossroads (1968-69) (04:30) --Be sure to read the background story under the video... Cross Exhibition @ Sisters of St. Joseph Brentwood Here are the separate videos I took this month at the exhibition of crosses and crucifixes in the Kean Window Gallery - Bldg. 5 on the Brentwood campus of the Sisters of St. Joseph. I am waiting for a friend to show me how to merge them together... PLAYLIST of All 11 Videos --Click the PLAY arrow in the first video then all the others will auto-play. Intro (01:55) Beginning our journey (16:59) Starting in Ireland (05:15) Beginning in El Salvador (01:40) The Feminine Face of G-d (02:40) Beginning in Peru (36:30) Jesus - a Red Cross worker (00:54) Passion of Christ (00:50) Jesus on the Myrtle Ave EL (01:40) I transition from promoter to participating artist with this entry (video includes what led to this change): The CROSS: A Franciscan/Minority perspective (04:37) Universal Christ: Hindu Krishna Das rides the rails with Jesus... For years, I've enjoyed Krishna in person and online... Jesus On The Mainline - Krishna Das Live! Songs With Lyrics (07:24) Cross Posts Y…did Jesus die? A Minority/Franciscan view (O.F.M. – Order of Friars Minor)…Reality has a cruciform pattern… What the Cross means to me…an evolving journey…my G-d was too small… The Cross & Social Justice: “Followers” of Jesus hung Black Bodies from trees… The Cross & Social Justice: “Followers” of Jesus (heads of church & state) enslaved indigenous peoples & took their lands… The Cross and the Woodworker Jesus: A Red Cross worker... Semana Santa (Holy Week) Posts SUN PALM...Sun...Day...with PASSION...Ate at my heart strings... MON The Gospel in BOXER shorts: Sheep & ScapeGOATS TUE SCAPEGOATS can return to their flocks as wounded healers... WED Every time a white mob lynched a black person, they lynched Jesus. THU Welcome the stranger among you...Feed "them", House "her", Wash "their" feet, Shelter "him" from the storms... FRI Good...Grate...Friday... SAT Tomb...Stone...Blues...Reds...Oranges...Yellows...Purples... #music #Cream #RobertJohnson #HolyWeek #Cross #Exhibition #Jesus #SistersOfSaintJoseph #solidarity #KrishnaDas