I write this blog entry on Tuesday April 9, 2024. It is the day after the Solar Eclipse of April 8, 2024. Today, a software CD that I ordered arrived. The envelope was marked “Fragile: Handle with Care”. Inside, I found a shattered disk, shattered in plastic shards. I ordered […]
Gateway Arch
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I took the winter off from playing. As the season has warmed, I have returned to the Gateway Arch and I am playing my guitar. There were many fire engines called in response to smoke reported at the top of the Arch. Here scratched on the sideway a few blocks […]
Today, outside at lunchtime at the Arch, it was a shirt sleeve day. Honestly, I can’t think of anything more satisfying than standing and playing my guitar on a beautiful sunny day. “You know I can be found sitting here, all alone, but if you can’t come around, at least […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
Today is Sunday, June 19, 2022. It is the Juneteenth holiday, although the designated Federal holiday will be tomorrow on Monday, June 20. Federal holidays are almost always on Mondays to give people an extra day for a long weekend. There are a bunch of events today celebrating the day, […]
As I have driven to the Gateway Arch these many months, today I drove this morning into the city. The St. Louis downtown streets are all ripped up, so it’s not surprising that the street near Kiener plaza was closed due to the on-going construction. Whole blocks of prime downtown […]
One year ago, I wrote in this blog, “I am trying very hard not to “sell you tickets to the ghost train”. This train is real.” Yes, this train is real, but the quote is apt. The song I sing at the Gateway Arch “Freedom Train” recounts American History from […]