Sometimes, I get remarks about my guitar. The fact that it is blue. The comments are always compliments as in, “Such a pretty guitar. What a nice shade of blue.” And I respond, “I read a poem by Wallace Stevens once called the blue guitar. Google him, he was a […]
Yearly Archives: 2023
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In which the troubadour/author/guitarist continues his constitutionally protected right to Free Speech as protected by the U.S. Bill of Rights on U.S. Federal Park Service Land and happens upon the great shadow of the Gateway Arch.
Maxima 5.41.0 http://maxima.sourceforge.net using Lisp GNU Common Lisp (GCL) GCL 2.6.12 Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING. Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter. The function bug_report() provides bug reporting information. (%i1) 1+3+5+7+9; (%o1) 25 (%i2) 1+3+5+7+9+9+7+5+3+1; (%o2) 50
I want to make a full disclosure. I learned the Pledge of Allegiance and the US Flag in Elementary School. Later, I learned about the American Revolution and Paul Revere’s Ride. In High School, I took the required course in American History. I read autobiographies. I read “Profiles in Courage” […]
We, in Midwest America, in Missouri, in Saint Louis are in the midst of a heat wave. This week in July has had a sequence of very hot days — the mornings are hot and humid, the afternoons are like ovens, and the temperature doesn’t let up at night. I […]
I have been playing for some time now under the Arch by the stairway to the Mississippi river. The exact coordinates from Google maps are Latitude 38.62479534157054 North and Longitude 90.18429628548255 West. (You can actually paste in 38.62479534157054, -90.18429628548255 directly into Google maps and see where I have been playing). […]
I was playing by the staircase to the Mississippi river yesterday and a child accompanied by her Mother and Father approached me. “She has something to give you.” And she gave me this note.
The second song I play is “Saturday in the Park”. The lyric that comes to mind is “People walking, people talking. A man playing his guitar.” I performed a new cover, “Proud Mary”. I am going to add this song to my schedule. Really it is so apt to my […]
Technically, Passover ends at sunset / sundown on April 13. Installing Orbtimes then one can type nicks@johndenver:~/Documents$ orbtimes Sunset local day Wednesday 19:27.015425 April 12 2023 Sunrise local day Thursday 6:29.800781 April 13 2023 I can check this against Google search which says 7:37 PM which is a ten minute discrepancy. […]
This song has many verses that I sing at the Gateway Arch. Originally written by Merle Haggard for the 200th bicentennial celebration in 1976, it is getting near the 250th anniversary in 2026. I have made modifications and added some verses. Here at the Gateway Arch, it is a good […]