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02 02 2020

Happy World Palindrome Day!

And that includes you, Ivi Anna!

I remember the excitement in our household when we learned that Crania had been selected, back in 1996, as a daily pick by then-dominant search engine, Yahoo, as one of the best of the then-emerging Internet (back when it was capitalized).

Crania was the — brainchild, sorry — of brother Dennis and was one of the early literary and poetry “magazine” sites on the nascent World Wide Web. (By the end of 1996, there were less than 300,000 websites — up from 1 in 1991, following the Web’s invention in 1989; now there are about 1.7 billion.) Long dormant, you can now see its new incarnation at crania.com, and get some background here. Leave Dennis a comment there to let him know what you think.

P.S. Crania is the product of the same Dennis whose daily poetry was featured here on WhileBusy for several months, and is still accessible, of course.

eofp (end of familial promotion, by the terrible writer in the family)

Wind and More

A Neighbor in a Tree and a Tesla on a Street

Two Dogs and Their People

[rDay Seventeen-Hundred-Seventy-Four]

Without Eyes 4

Some dogs and their persons:

A flag study:

Floating …

And the eyes thing.

[rDay Seventeen-Hundred-Seventy-Three]

Without Eyes 3

(pls click liberally)

[rDay Seventeen-Hundred-Seventy-Two]

Without Eyes 2

[rDay Seventeen-Hundred-Seventy-Two]

Not Just Flams and Paradiddles

Today’s earlier “Hallelujah” post got me off on a listening bender. And then I decided that it was a good time to revisit Evelyn Glennie’s 2007 TED Talk, “How To Truly Listen”. Oh, yeah — Evelyn is deaf.

P.S.  Please excuse the title of this post.  For a period of time in my youth, I studied to be a percussionist.

Without Eyes

[rDay Seventeen-Hundred-Seventy-One]

Hallelujah

Been some time since we binged on the music of Leonard Cohen back in 2016, starting here and continuing. Today Dennis makes me aware of this performance of his famous anthem, done by musicians of the Berklee College of Music & Boston Conservatory. Do this with full-throated headphones or speakers if you can.