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d r a f t https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz--aO7epEs Murphy Campbell | Jam Sessions, FOX8 WGHP, Greensboro, NC | May 29, 2025 It's 1 degree below zero and sunny outside this morning, and the National Weather Service (or what's left of it) forecasts a high of 6 above. We have about five inches of snow on the ground, and … Continue reading Here’s to Murphy Campbell and today’s rising generation of young old-time southern Appalachian musicians

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJThCmtwLOI WGN News, Chicago, Sept. 30, 2025. For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!" "I told you so." -- John Greenleaf Whittier, "Maud Muller" (revised PE). On Nov. 9, 2016, the morning after President Trump was elected to his first term in office, US Supreme Court-watcher … Continue reading Green shoots of resistance as Trump regime’s ‘s***storm’ threatens rule of law, federal system of government

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d r a f t Lemony Hummus Pasta By Christian Reynoso Christopher Testani for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Spencer Richards. Total Time30 minutesPrep Time10 minutesCook Time20 minutesRating4(235)NotesRead 33 community notes Hummus, with its nutty and garlicky flavor, makes a fantastic dip, spread or even a salad dressing, but it can also be a great … Continue reading Miscellaneous recipes (and ideas)

d r a f t https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pABfbd6Txho&t=19s Per YouTube: Composer: Adam Vaclav Michna (1600-1676) Work: Missa S Wenceslai (c.1670) Performers: Chorale Franco-Allemande de Paris; Bernard Lallement (conductor) Missa S Wenceslai (c.1670) 1. Kyrie 0:00 2. Gloria 8:11 3. Credo 14:56 4. Sanctus 27:00 5. Benedictus 31:34 6. Agnus Dei 34:00 Painting: Gillis van Coninxloo (1544-1607) - … Continue reading Adam Vaclav Michna, ‘Missa S Wenceslai’

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Editor's (admin's) note. Lightly edited copy of an email I sent to my spiritual director last night in advance of our session for June. My mood has lifted considerably since President Biden announced his is withdrawing from the presidential race, for reasons that will become apparent below, but I think the long-term fundamentals haven't changed; the … Continue reading Ignatian (Jesuit) exercises in a time of political apocalypse — spiritual direction notes for July

d r a f t ! Sumud [steadfastness] header on ELCA website at https://www.elca.org/sumud. Intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-_CBFUiWeQ&t=2s -- What is Sumud? (English) | Following the Way of Jesus: A Lenten Holy Land Journey  Week 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn1c18BvUHA&t=1s -- Sumud the Way of Jesus (English) Church of the Annunciation (Nazareth) Ranan Issa Abu Shanab is the Gender Justice Program Manager … Continue reading Sumud — draft outline and links

d r a f t https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZNPwTNHlew&t=400s Noam Shuster Eliassi, performing at the JW3, London, December 2018. xxx Eric Alterman, "What on Earth Has Happened to the Israeli Peace Movement?" New Republic, May 22 https://newrepublic.com/article/181775/what-happened-israeli-peace-movement. Eric Alterman Verbatim Excerpts (money quote): One cannot but admire both the bravery and tenacity of these people, whom so many … Continue reading Notes & quotes — Israeli peace movement (D R A F T)

d r a f t harmonica barge -- YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@TheHarmonicaBarge Rhythm and Groove Harp Lessons https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZtPXd2xMOGKG23n_fxJEf9KjdBpKz-Yq xxx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc3x5_GYTMM xxx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ErKBYsEdVY&list=PLZtPXd2xMOGJKe64_qiJrjtuBpo2aJJw_&index=3 xxx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRCHWqlyJX8&list=PLZtPXd2xMOGJKe64_qiJrjtuBpo2aJJw_&index=1 xx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic2Qm8mpZ5w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFjgdEfrtlc xxx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbjFlShDjQs&list=PLZtPXd2xMOGJKe64_qiJrjtuBpo2aJJw_&index=3 xxx chords -- xxx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qVSuayeV_I

d r a f t (i.e. work in progress) Keyword search in YouTube on "Irish harmonica" yields a directory at: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=irish+harmonica Worth going back to. Also a good YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@HarmonicaForTheSoul. Óró Sé Do Bheatha Abhaile https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HF4q1Db09I Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, March 17 (!), 2020 The Session -- https://thesession.org/tunes/7480 -- has the dots, mostly in … Continue reading Irish tunes for harmonica

d r a f t https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af3B-JsmLJA xxx xxxxx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-ldAA9nwQ0 xxxx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-ldAA9nwQ0 This Simple Breathing Exercise Will Transform Your Playing - How to Breathe on Harmonica Jonah Fox - Harmonica Revolution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=norMgWCHXr4 xxxx xxxx Harmonica Academy https://www.harmonicaacademy.com/categories/20101027 The Tremolo Harmonica The tremolo harmonica is the most popular instrument of the harmonica family, played throughout Asia and … Continue reading Harmonica basics — misc. videos

d r a f t On the EatingWell website at https://www.eatingwell.com/recipe/7945999/load-go-slow-cooker-soup-with-mushrooms-kielbasa/ 1 pound white mushrooms, halved and sliced 1 medium onion, chopped 1 medium red bell pepper, chopped 4 ounces kielbasa, halved lengthwise and sliced 3 cloves garlic, minced 1 teaspoon ground cumin 1 teaspoon paprika 1 teaspoon dried thyme ½ teaspoon salt ½ teaspoon ground pepper 4 cups low-sodium chicken broth 4 cups coarsely chopped spinach 1 tablespoon butter or extra-virgin olive oil 1 tablespoon red-wine vinegar There's also a lentil soup … Continue reading Kielbasa spinach soup

... which Debi wrote, in her voice (with my kibitzing and edits), for both of us. The past year at our house has been … eventful. Pete was diagnosed with bladder cancer in October of 2022 and I had a heart attack just before Christmas of last year. So we’ve spent much of 2023 juggling doctor … Continue reading Our Christmas letter, 2023

d r a f t https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTRXq5Si2Es&t=2663s xxx xxx Si Bheag Si Mhor Banish Misfortune Blarney Pilgrim Swallowtail Dusty Windowsills [skip here, as it would show up later in the FFF set] Lilting Banshee (Some missing titles) Cooley’s Reel This Ships are Sailing Garrett Barry’s Jig I Buried My Wife… Humours of Ballyloughlin Maid Behind the … Continue reading spokane irish session

d r a f t https://www.facebook.com/groups/easymexicanrecipes/posts/647656613968322 2 tbsp evoo (extra virgin olive oil) 1 to 2 lbs ground beef 3 potatoes cubed 1 can green beans or fresh (optional) small onion 2 garlic cloves minced 3 tomatoes diced 2 Serrano Chile’s chopped 1 tsp kosher salt add more if needed 1 tsp garlic salt 1/4 … Continue reading picadillo

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AI image by pvproductions It all began when Debi and I were talking about artificial intelligence (AI). WordPress has an AI content generator, called Jetpack AI Assistant, and we both have blogs on WordPress. We started on a high plane, speculating about whether it can replace human intelligence. So we got on WordPress and tried … Continue reading Frolicking in Plato’s academy with an AI content generator, a chatty club sandwich and a philosophical cat

d r a f t https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd3VB4480J0&t=35s A tune I want to learn -- but I don't know the name. It begins a little after 35:00. Seems to be in D, and I think it may be related to John Ryan's polka. Can anyone help me identify it? xxx John Ryan's (polka)? -- https://thesession.org/tunes/441 -- seems … Continue reading What’s that tune? Heard on the YouTube video of a session in Spokane — can anyone help me ID it?

d r a f t https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2rvjt-h_8E xxx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7Q_OnOL_dg Na Mooneys - Máire Mhór | FleadhTV 2017 | TG4 Trad TG4 blurb: Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh (Fiddle & Song), Anna Ní Mhaonaigh (Whistle & Song), Nia Ní Bheirn (Fiddle & Song), Ciarán Ó Maonaigh (Fiddle), Gearóid Ó Maonaigh (Guitar), Caitlín Nic Gabhann (Concertina & Dance) & Mánus … Continue reading Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh — links

Lightly edited copy of a status update I posted this afternoon to Facebook. Due to a combination of health issues and a computer that died when I was in the hospital and too busy to get a new one. But I've been recuperating at home now for several weeks, and Debi found a way to … Continue reading Back on social media — and hopefully blogging again — after a two-month hiatus

Copied from Debi's blog "Seriously Seeking Answers," which has one more picture -- of a bumblebee chowing down on one of the native wildflowers she sets out to attract pollinators. (I couldn't get the formatting to behave.) To see the bee, click HERE. While you're there, take a look around. Her blog promises a "spiritual … Continue reading Our annual Christmas letter for 2022

Can former President and would-be tsar Donald Trump get around his mounting legal problems with a plea of no contest and a promise to retire to private life? I'd rather see him retire to a nice dacha on the Moscow River -- he's certainly earned that accolade -- and I don't think either outcome is … Continue reading Would Trump accept a plea deal? Not likely. But how about a nice dacha on the Moscow River? There’s precedent

https://vimeo.com/2310136 Parked here until I can figure out how -- or whether -- to revive my old blog Hogfiddle (which may be a while). In the meantime, this video just makes me happy whenever I watch it. I posted it on Aug. 8, 2010, to the original iteration of the blog. Took me a while … Continue reading ‘Money Musk’: A classic New England contradance tune that just makes me happy every time I watch this video

d r a f t Christof Fankhauser - Nun ruhen alle Wälder (Instrumental, Piano solo) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DncWJvFgl4 xxx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf_lgk2it1Q&list=RDXf_lgk2it1Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELu_Nwblkgc Found when I was following up on an Imani Perry interview on the Washington Post website and Googled into a very quotable reference to créolité -- "The origins of everything American twist and shout their way through history." Shades of Chubby Checker! So I kept on reading. Turned out I had it in a … Continue reading Quotable (!) notes & quotes: Creolization

Notes from two interviews with Imani Perry. The first is about her new book South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation. The second, last year in the New York Review of Books, followed her review of a biography of Lorraine Hammond, author of Raisin in the Sun. … Continue reading Imani Perry on history, Faulkner, ‘settler colonialism’ and the (Southern) soul of America

d r a f t The Creolization Of American Culture: William Sidney Mount And The Roots Of Blackface Minstrelsy [PDF]  Authors: Christopher J Smith https://vdoc.pub/documents/the-creolization-of-american-culture-william-sidney-mount-and-the-roots-of-blackface-minstrelsy-49vtd6cookq0 While black-white exchange has long been recognized as a major element in shaping North American vernacular music, the extent, geographic distribution, breadth of time span, diversity, and terminus post quem of … Continue reading VDOC.PUB copy of ‘Creolization of American Culture’ by Christopher Smith

d r a f t pix Wikimedia Commons (horizontal!) Unedited -- separated by "xxx" centered, references list at the end Salman Rushdie, "Reality is an argument," interview by Nahlah Ayed, IDEAS host  We are in a very interesting moment in history in which as you write, "We are urged to define ourselves more and more narrowly to … Continue reading Salman Rushdie on Trump — notes & quotes (Gatsby redux?)

Screen shot of picture I took in the basilica at the Church of the Nativity, 2012 Scholars are not altogether certain that Jesus was born in Bethlehem -- they advance different hypotheses reconciling the birth narratives in Luke and Matthew -- but we can be quite certain that the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, … Continue reading Header picture — main basilica, Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem

Man Martin, Man Overboard (rpt. Winnipeg Free Press, March 16, 2019) Here's a link to what just might be my all-time favorite cartoon. Here's a link to the cartoonist's daily comic strip. It's by Man Martin, a high school English teacher from the suburbs of Atlanta; it's called Man Overboard; and it's available for free … Continue reading ‘Man Overboard’: Sly, subversive, faithful daily cartoons about organized religion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsOo0KB80es Sadly, Jamelle Bouie of the New York Times is one of very few pundits to weigh in on a Michigan state legislator who blasted the racist, homophobic slurs in the far right's latest assault on K-12 public education. The lawmaker, state Sen. Mallory McMorrow, a Democrat of suburban Detroit (Royal Oak), replied In kind … Continue reading ‘It’s not subtle’: Jamelle Boule links the latest homophobic, racist dog whistles to longstanding assault on the public schools

https://dph.illinois.gov/covid19/data/surveillance.html The measures included on this page are daily indicators of how Illinois and its regions and counties are being impacted by COVID-19. The Illinois Department of Public Health continues to monitor these indicators to identify early increases of virus transmission, and stress on hospital resources. SELECT COUNTY (or click on map) for local metrics. [To … Continue reading Daily COVID-19 Metrics — IDPH

d r a f t https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HF4q1Db09I Óró Sé Do Bheatha Abhaile March 17, 2020 Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh (MOY-ran ni' KAL-ley) posted this video to YouTube in 2020, with this note: Grá mór go mhuintir na hÉireann. Sending our love to the Irish on St. Patrick's Day. #misneach xxx Buíochas le Seán Mac a tSíthigh as … Continue reading Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh

d r a f t https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdXAGm5xm9M Palm Sunday, 2016, Saint John's Orthodox Church, Warren, Ohio. xxx It's a setting of the Cherubic Hymn in the Russian Orthodox tradition, sung at the transition in the service from the Service of the Word to the Eucharist:  We who mystically represent the Cherubim,and who sing to the Life-Giving … Continue reading Palm Sunday

d r a f t\ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHtTE1FyyT8 xxx To celebrate Juneteenth, Jon Baptiste and Matthew Whitaker perform Amazing Grace on the steps of the Brooklyn Public Library in Brooklyn, NY on June 19, 2020. Matthew Whitaker xxx Second is Let God Lead by Jon Batiste & Stay Human from their album Social Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaqPpTY3jyg

d r a f t Interview with Jeffrey Gurock of Yeshiva University on creolization in Jewish-American institutions in the years after the Civil War -- although he doesn't use the word -- points up some important (imho) simliarities between the Jewish and and Swedish-American Lutheran experience. At this point, Jews were not hated like Irish … Continue reading File under creolization — blending Jewish and (Protestant) American religious and cultural norms in mid-19th century

d r a f t xxx https://www.myrecipes.com/ingredients/baked-chicken-breast-recipes xxx https://www.southernliving.com/recipes/salsa-verde-chicken-casserole Salsa Verde Chicken Casserolehttps://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/sheet-pan-greek-chicken-roasted-potatoes Sheet Pan Greek Chicken with Roasted Potatoeshttps://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/chicken-tamale-casserole Chicken Tamale Casserolehttps://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/chicken-tetrazzini-9 Chicken Tetrazzini (w/ cream cheese)https://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/italian-seasoned-roast-chicken Italian-Seasoned Roast Chicken Breasts *** Also a salmon chowder recipe at https://themodernproper.com/salmon-chowder that I also don't want to lose sight of! Not as rich as Phyllis' on … Continue reading Chix recipes that might be worth trying

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOL3T0jM8Jk Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Church New Ulm, Minn., 2012 Editor’s (admin’s) note: Lightly edited copy of email I wrote in advance of this month's appointment with my spiritual director, giving her a heads-up on what I’d been journaling on since our last meeting and, more to the point, helping me focus over time by archiving the … Continue reading Spiritual direction, February 2022

d r a f t https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqa9ga7Hlwo Ev. Wiesenkirche, Soest, Gottesdienst, zum Reformationsjubiläum, 2017 "Nun jauchzt dem Herren, alle Welt" (Now rejoice to the Lord, all the world) is a German Christian hymn, a paraphrase of Psalm 100. The text was written by David Denicke, based on a metered paraphrase of the psalm from the Becker Psalter, and published in … Continue reading Nun jauchzt dem Herren alle Welt

d r a f t This has casserole possiblities (imho) ... Marzia's Little Spice Jar recipe at https://littlespicejar.com/roasted-tomatillo-chicken-enchilada-pie/ Enchilada Pie:  1 lb. boneless, skinless chicken breasts (see notes) 1 1/2 cups shredded pepper jack cheese 6-8 (8-inch) corn tortillas garnish: chopped cilantro + cotija cheese + lime wedges Dirty little secret: "I know, it’s tempting to use a … Continue reading Roasted Tomatillo Chicken Enchilada Pie

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d r a f t https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6qUR6vtggM xxx Harmonia Sacra, 333b (26th ed., Goshen, Ind., 2008). Melody in tenor. xxx Lord Jesus Christ, to Thee We Pray (Tallis' Evening Hymn) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_bpz6k0IgA Lord Jesus Christ, to Thee We Pray (Tallis' Evening Hymn) Text by: Martin Luther Translated by: William M Reynolds 1849 Tune: Tallis' Evening Hymn by: … Continue reading tallis evening hymn

d r a f t I'm not sure how much of this applies to an adult bible study group, but a self-described "classroom teacher turned curriculum developer" put a primer up on Facebook at the end of March and beginning of April 2020, when teachers everywhere had to adapt to online instruction in a hurry … Continue reading From the first days of the pandemic! A couple of monkey-see, monkey-do tutorials for Zoom classes I can understand

d r a f t Pix and links to a Twitter thread by a scholar at the University of Iowa who specializes on the role of women in the early Christian church, w/ preliminary reaction to the dig's potential significance: Screen shot, Dr. Sarah Bond's Twitter thread on deaconesses. Notes and excerpts from Haaretz article … Continue reading For future reference — Haaretz article on archaeological dig at basilica in Ashdod

d r a f t https://www.facebook.com/peter.ellertsen/posts/2905686249692402 Link here to original on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/peter.ellertsen/posts/2905686249692402 xxx https://www.facebook.com/peter.ellertsen/posts/1735852676675771

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d r a f t https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2zz9Do-n14 "Forgive me. I'm probably trying to make this too simple ... but I'm not." In this fifteen-minute video, Father Richard explains how a succession of medieval scholars developed a theology around the religious and spiritual intuitions of Saint Francis of Assisi. He highlights how God has always spoken through … Continue reading Fr. Richard Rohr

"Andover, Illinois," Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andover,_Illinois (accessed July 31, 2021) *** Andover is a village in Henry County, Illinois, United States. The population was 578 at the 2010 census, down from 594 in 2000.[3] [Estimate (2019)[2] 572] History Andover is the oldest community in Henry County. Andover was the first area to be settled as a town within the county and the … Continue reading Andover’s population, demographics

Interesting data cited today in Jennifer Rubin's op ed piece on the Washington Post website. Her headline focuses on the news of the day, "This is why MAGA nativists are in a panic" Well, natch. That's what you do to attract readers to the op ed page. But the data, in a Pew Research Center … Continue reading Pew Research survey on attitudes towards immigration, inclusiveness in US, Europe

Editor's (admin's) note: One of two posts today that were prompted by Nate Cohn's op ed piece “Why Political Sectarianism Is a Growing Threat to American Democracy” in the New York Times. Link HERE for my notes & quotes from Cohn's article, and a scholarly article in Science magazine he based it on. Cite: Robin … Continue reading Civil war in America? A 2017 think piece in the New Yorker looks at the odds

D R A F T https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN7dGz6NH5M 'Von guten Mächten wunderbar geborgen' | ABAKUS Musik | Click on "CC" for English subtitles. Von guten Mächten wunderbar geborgen / "By gracious pow'rs so wonderfully sheltered ..." (trans. Fred Prett Green, ELW 626 (ELW has a different tune (TELOS) by Robert Buckley Farlee -- video by Resurrection Evangelical … Continue reading German new year’s hymn by Dietrich Bonhoeffer —

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d r a f t https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrFW5FwwkfI Marcel Marceau, "How I worked in the French Resistance and Created Bip as a Figure of Hope," Michigan Quarterly Review, 41, no. 1 (Winter 2002) https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?cc=mqr;c=mqr;c=mqrarchive;idno=act2080.0041.111;g=mqrg;rgn=main;view=text;xc=1 a lightly edited transcript of the speech delivered extempore, in English, by Marcel Marceau upon receiving the Raoul Wallenberg Medal on April 30, 2001, at … Continue reading Marcel Marceau and the uses of history

Jacqueline Schaalje, Banyas, Jewish Magazine, July 2000 http://www.jewishmag.co.il/34mag/banyas/banyas.htm The city was re-named Caesarea Philippi when Herod's son Philip took up the rule. Philip was one of the first who made a serious attempt to determine the source of the Jordan. The story is related by Josephus (War 3: 512-13). Philip had chaff thrown in the nearby … Continue reading Misc. notes and links on Caesarea Philippi

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xxx https://www.elca.org/News-and-Events/8016?fbclid=IwAR1dj2qL0-KmSB2RIoh3OYobQn0hxe8T1QzEO6Si_5O3OW7g7P6tAOPxSUY Excerpt: Twenty-five years ago, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America joined other Lutheran Christians worldwide in repudiating anti-Judaism within our own tradition. In our 1994 “Declaration of the ELCA to the Jewish Community”  we affirmed that “we recognize in anti-Semitism a contradiction and affront to the Gospel, a violation of our hope and calling, … Continue reading ELCA statement on anti-Semitism (DRAFT)

Email message sent over the weekend to my spiritual director. Archived here as sort of a journal in the spirit of Flannery O'Connor, who famously said, "I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.” Hi Sister -- A quick note to confirm our rescheduled meeting for 2:30 p.m. … Continue reading Spiritual direction — November

Finally! I've had time this morning to pull together the information I've got about Bestefar, answer your questions and add a couple of thoughts of my own.   He was born 15 Aug. 1874 in Bergen, according to the attached Norwegian-language directory. He studied at a school for missionaries in Stavanger and emigrated (udvandret) in 1902. … Continue reading Bestefar —

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right. You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the … Continue reading Introduce Yourself (Example Post)