Sunday Serendipity

With the release of the recent movie Green Book, Don Shirley may need no introduction, however his music is a joy to listen to. I found this one and it was too good not to share. What an amazing talent. This is a version of Blue Skies that you won’t soon forget.

Enjoy the music but most of all enjoy your day!?
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22 thoughts on “Sunday Serendipity”

  1. jace, thank you. great selection especially accompanied with that slide show of digital images and paintings by C.E.Newland
     
    [Charles E. Newland is an award winning artis a member by invitation of the National Society of Painters in Casein and Acrylics since 1977with paintings & digital images in public and private collections.]

  4. I always look forward to Sunday and the serendipities. You never disappoint, Jace. 
    Speaking of 2020, here’s SFB’s strategic messaging as of today from WaPo’s lead article today.

    …. centered on a portrayal of the nation as under siege from criminal immigrants and other dark forces, and reliant upon a die-hard base of older whites in rural areas. 

    That’s a description of me, but NO. 

  5. I absolutely loved Green Book, but it is causing quite a bit of controversy with some people seeing it as “white man saves black man” while others are seeing it as “black man instructs white man”.  For me it was a theater full of people of a variety of shades leaving while smiling at each other and nodding over a film that made them happy.   At least the ones who didn’t know left caring that a “Green Book” was a necessary matter of life and death then and may still be necessary in parts of the country now.  

  6. a real feel good sunday cinderella story from wapo: 
    How a stray puppy rescued from a trash pit became a movie star
    […]
    The star of “A Dog’s Way Home,” now in theaters, has a hard-luck tale that could top them all. Before her big break, she was living in a landfill, rooting through garbage for her next meal.
    Meet Shelby, the tan-and-black mutt who portrays Bella, occupying the screen, often solo, for much of the film’s 97 minutes — and whose trash-to-riches saga could itself be a gripping cinematic yarn.
    Shelby’s big break came in April 2017, when animal-control officer Megan Buhler was driving in Cheatham County, Tenn., a rural area about 25 miles from Nashville. Out on an unrelated call, Buhler spotted and approached what she recalled was a noticeably skittish dog emerging from the dump.
    “So I knelt down and just said, ‘Oh, come here, baby,’ ” said Buhler, 29. “There were lots of cars driving by — I mean, it was heavy traffic. She was so scared, and she finally came right up to me, and I was able to put her in my truck.”
    The pair headed to the county animal shelter, where the staff took to calling the new resident Baby Girl.
    […]
    Cameron and Michon traveled to Tennessee, met Baby Girl and developed the same crush. In an email, Michon said that she was struck by “the extraordinary sweetness of her soul.” Baby Girl, she added, “was loving, smart, oh-so-eager to please, and we knew instantly we had found our Bella.”
    In short order, Miller adopted Baby Girl from the shelter on behalf of Pearl and Paws for Effect, renamed her Shelby (“a really cute Southern name”) and took her to California for training.
    […]
    Has its heroine gone Hollywood? Sunglasses at night? Not Shelby. After additional training, she’s now working as a therapy dog on location at places that include veterans’ facilities, hospitals and schools attended by students with special needs.
    Shelby now lives with Pearl in Huntington Beach, Calif. And at age 2½, Shelby has turned out to be as gifted a therapy dog as a thespian, Pearl said.
    “She just has this insight of what she needs to do when she needs to do it,” Pearl said. “And not all dogs have that, even dogs that I’ve used for therapy dogs for a long time.”
    Shelby has come a long way from the dump. But Buhler, the animal-control officer, said she saw Shelby recently and needed only a split second to compare the movie star with the dog she coaxed away from piles of trash.
    “She’s exactly the same,” Buhler said.

  7. Thank you Jace.  Wonderful version of an excellent song.  Shirley was an amazing talent. 
     

  8. Jamie44 – I am not sure there is a physical Green Book anymore, but I suspect there are online or social media links discussing good or safe locations.  I am very familiar with online and social media links for transgender people.  Our lives depend on asking questions about where to go, and, importantly where to avoid when visiting new locales.
     
    Happy Sunday!  During this national emergency I am careful about looking for caravans.  Although more common during the summer vacation season, there are a few people roaming around with their travel trailers on the back roads of the region.

  9. Jace…. wonderful!…  the music and the movie.
     
    patd….  read A Dog’s Way Home for my book club serveral months ago.  It’s a quick and easy read… would make anyone a good book for a snowy day this winter.  Nice story about the dog in the movie.

  10. http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201902170021.htmlThe Asahi Shimbun | Asia & Japan Watch
    Acceding to a request from Washington, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe nominated U.S. President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize around autumn for engaging with North Korea, Japanese government sources said Feb. 16.
     
    According to the sources, the U.S. government “informally” asked Tokyo to nominate Trump after he met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore in June, the first-ever summit between the two countries.
     
    At a news conference in the White House on Feb. 15, Trump revealed that Abe gave him a copy of a five-page letter the prime minister sent to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, which awards the prize.
     
    The deadline for nominating candidates for the prize is February every year. College professors and members of the parliament in each country, as well as former Nobel laureates, are eligible to recommend candidates.
     
    Trump quoted Abe as saying, “I have nominated you, respectfully, on behalf of Japan.”
     
    As for the reasons for the nomination, Trump said, “Because he had rocket ships and he had missiles flying over Japan. They had alarms going off. You know that. Now, all of a sudden they feel good. They feel safe. I did that.”
    [continues]

  12. I’m assuming Slanders Suckabee lied to the special counsel– just doing her day job

  13. The Green Book was very enjoyable and in reading about the movie — there is some controversy  it was written by the son of the white guy and the black guy’s family disputes most of it and says they were never friends

  14. Sorry folks I cannot keep up with the site. No TV, internet at the house now, my phone is my only connection to the outside world, and little time to do that. So much to do with the house, it’s all I can deal with.

  18. Here’s a chill one from the indie charts- sounds like it was written for ppl who read the news too much, which is all of us:

  20. It’s kind of neat that we get to witness the fall of the American Empire, firsthand, though, right?
     
    It’s like getting to see Halley’s Comet, or a volcano erupt.

  22. Well, it looks like Lindsey Graham’s continuing to try and convince everyone that since John McCain died he has lost the one person who kept him from trying to show that South Carolina has the dumbest senator in Congress since Sessions stepped down to become AG. So says WaPo. 

    Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey O. Graham said Sunday that his panel will investigate former acting FBI director Andrew McCabe’s claim that Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein raised the possibility of ousting President Trump through the 25th Amendment, calling the statement “beyond stunning.”
     
    Graham (R-S.C.) was responding to comments made by Mc­Cabe in an interview with CBS News’s “60 Minutes” which aired in full Sunday night.
     
    “There’s an allegation by the acting FBI director at the time that the deputy attorney general was basically trying to do an administrative coup, take the president down [through] the 25th Amendment process,” Graham said in an appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “The deputy attorney general denies it. I promise your viewers the following: that we will have a hearing about who’s telling the truth, what actually happened.”

    Lindsey’s presidential knee pads are already getting well worn, and John hasn’t been gone that long. 

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