Sunday Serendipity

Poem for Carlita composed by Mark O’Connor

From the Album, Appalachian Journey

Performed by 3 masters of their craft. Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, and Mark O’Connor.

When I wrote Poem for Carlita for Yo-Yo Ma, I hoped he would play this exactly the way he plays it. The experience was riveting. It was one of my most dramatic and romantic instrumental journeys and he was the one to expose every nuance of passion in the music. He saved his best for this performance…tremendous. I thank you.

Mark O’Connor

Enjoy, Jack

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  2. to all on the trail today have a happy mother of a day. 

    excerpt from A Proclamation on Mother’s Day, 2023 | The White House

         Today, at family gatherings across America, let us give thanks for all the mothers and mother-figures, who we love so much.  Let us be sure to make the most of our precious time together.  Let us also keep in our prayers those who observe this day with a hole in their heart, missing a mom’s irreplaceable presence and the comfort it brings, as well as the mothers who know the pain of losing a child.  Finally, let us continue working to extend our country’s promise of dignity and opportunity to America’s mothers — the least we can do for the people in our lives who have given us the most.   

         The Congress, by joint resolution approved May 8, 1914 (38 Stat. 770), has designated the second Sunday in May each year as “Mother’s Day” and requested the President to call for its appropriate observance.

         NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim May 14, 2023, as Mother’s Day.  I urge all Americans to express their love, respect, and gratitude to mothers everywhere.  I call upon all citizens to observe this day with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities.

    from history.com:

    On May 9, 1914, President Woodrow Wilson issues a presidential proclamation that officially establishes the first national Mother’s Day holiday to celebrate America’s mothers.
    The idea for a “Mother’s Day” is credited by some to Julia Ward Howe (1872) and by others to Anna Jarvis (1907), who both suggested a holiday dedicated to a day of peace. Many individual states celebrated Mother’s Day by 1911, but it was not until Wilson lobbied Congress in 1914 that Mother’s Day was officially set on the second Sunday of every May. In his first Mother’s Day proclamation, Wilson stated that the holiday offered a chance to “[publicly express] our love and reverence for the mothers of our country.”

  5. Here’s hoping Erdogan loses today. Not just for the win for democracy, but presume a new government will reverse his pro-Putin stance and enforce sanctions on Russia. Also it would deprive Trump of a friendly government that wouldn’t extradite him (he has a hotel there).

  6. oldie for the day from ’76 or’77 

    some of the lyrics:

    One day a mother, come to a prison
    To see an erring, but precious son
    She told the warden, how much she loved him
    It did not matter, what he had done

    […]

    She left a smile, you can remember
    She’s gone to heaven, from heartache’s free
    Them bars around you, will never change her
    He was her baby, and there will be
    She did not bring to him (bring to him)
    Parole or pardon (pardon free)
    She brought no silver (brought no gold)
    No pomp nor style (him to see)
    It was a halo (halo bright)
    Sent down from heaven (heaven’s light)
    The sweetest gift, a mother’s smile

  7. I hadn’t known those 3 have been recording together for so long.   Mucha grassyness…….

  9. Mother’s Day = lawn, clear & mulch day in Pogoville. The official start of summer lawn, bed and shrub maintenance. 
    and really is there anyway not to win with yo-yo ma ?

  11. He can huff and he can puff but he ain’t blowing THIS house down, cause it’s made out of bricks.

  12. new government will reverse his pro-Putin stance and enforce sanctions on Russia. Also it would deprive Trump of a friendly government that wouldn’t extradite him

    I’m no Erdogan fan, but it’s inaccurate to label him “pro-Putin”, he’s spoken out against the war and made efforts to negotiate a resolution, not every nation-state has the benefit of unlimited militarism as a means to an end

  13. If Erdogan’s opposition to admittance of Ukraine to NATO is why one might perceive him to be “pro-Putin”, i shall reiterate the point made by every member state in the months after Russia’s invasion: the “mutual-defense” clause of the NATO treaty would automatically enter every member-nation into a state of war with Russia the instant Ukraine’s inclusion became formal.  The United States isn’t even formally engaged in war with Russia, why would one think Turkey would want to be?

  14. When Erdogan’s security detail was beating-up Turkish-American protesters in the streets of D.C., it was an exemplification of TRUMP’s geopolitical weakness, he couldn’t even compel his diplomatic guests to this county to behave appropriately, because no international heads of state respect that orange-painted buffoon
     
    So go ahead GOP, nominate that clown to be our representative to the rest of the world, Make America A Laughingstock Again

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