By Jace, a Trail Mix Contributor
September has been quite a month so far. Don’t want it to get away without a few quiet moments. Not classical but definitely classic. My go to version of September Song.
Enjoy the music and as always enjoy your day!
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to harvey, irma, jose` and the rest of you september blowhards 🙂
The September Gale
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
I’M not a chicken; I have seen
Full many a chill September,
And though I was a youngster then,
That gale I well remember;
The day before, my kite-string snapped,
And I, my kite pursuing,
The wind whisked off my palm-leaf hat;
For me two storms were brewing!
It came as quarrels sometimes do,
When married folks get clashing;
There was a heavy sigh or two,
Before the fire was flashing,
A little stir among the clouds,
Before they rent asunder,–
A little rocking of the trees,
And then came on the thunder.
Lord! how the ponds and rivers boiled!
They seemed like bursting craters!
And oaks lay scattered on the ground
As if they were p’taters
And all above was in a howl,
And all below a clatter,
The earth was like a frying-pan,
Or some such hissing matter.
It chanced to be our washing-day,
And all our things were drying;
The storm came roaring through the lines,
And set them all a flying;
I saw the shirts and petticoats
Go riding off like witches;
I lost, ah! bitterly I wept,–
I lost my Sunday breeches!
I saw them straddling through the air,
Alas! too late to win them;
I saw them chase the clouds, as if
The devil had been in them;
They were my darlings and my pride,
My boyhood’s only riches,–
“Farewell, farewell,” I faintly cried,–
“My breeches! O my breeches!”
That night I saw them in my dreams,
How changed from what I knew them!
The dews had steeped their faded threads,
The winds had whistled through them!
I saw the wide and ghastly rents
Where demon claws had torn them;
A hole was in their amplest part,
As if an imp had worn them.
I have had many happy years,
And tailors kind and clever,
But those young pantaloons have gone
Forever and forever!
And not till fate has cut the last
Of all my earthly stitches,
This aching heart shall cease to mourn
My loved, my long-lost breeches!
Jace
That makes three classics in one recording, September Song, Sarah Vaughn, and Clifford Brown. She was amazing and Clifford in just a few short years a legend. Only known film piece of Clifford playing from the Soupy Sales show.
oops, forgot about maria
wral : Tropical Storms Maria, Lee and Hurricane Jose churning in the Atlantic
and as the song goes from sound of music:
How do you solve a problem like Maria?
How do you catch a cloud and pin it down?
How do you find the word that means Maria?
A flibbertijibbet! A will-o’-the wisp! A clown!
jace, thank you as always for a lovely wake up on a September sunday
flatus, and thank you for the rousing proms vid yesterday. that flag waving crowd, joyfully whistling and proudly singing….. what fun.
Happy Anniversary to Craig & David… Mr & Mrs Pogo… Jack and Mrs Jack. May you have many more!
Jace…. LOVE this selection!
Fall is my favorite time of the year. Our leaves are already starting to turn color. Looks like we’re going to have an early fall foliage season.
Another rehash, but really worth reading
Every Major Media Narrative About 2016 is Demonstrably False
Happy Birthday Constitution. We need you now more than ever!
NY Times Opinion – Ganesh Sitaraman
Our Constitution Wasn’t Built For This
Jamie, thank you for that rehash article . too bad fake won out over facts. dilbert today is an illustration of how that can happen and this excerpt illustrates how it did happen during the campaign with regard to her so called lack of message:
FAKE: Hillary Clinton didn’t have a message.
FACT: Hillary Clinton had a compelling message about being “stronger together,” as a nation, but her message was processed through the media’s relentless vilification filter. An Atlantic article written during the Democratic convention explained her message best: “I don’t need to be the center of your world. I’ll do my job, intelligently and doggedly. And I’ll help you be the heroes of your own lives.”
Clinton proposed good, pragmatic policies; she put forth workable solutions to difficult problems. But thanks to the mainstream media and her detractors on right and left, all the public heard was “EMAIL.”
September kicks off the Fall that is my favorite time of year. There is a beautiful melancholy about it.
Rosanne & Johnny Cash with a song for tears in your eyes.
A beautiful morning glory to the trail…good health to all. Craig and David have a love written into the Constitution. I am sure seeing each other today will be a healing moment.
A handy chart to all of the Trumpussian investigations.
Speaking of Jack
they still need a few more bucks for their fundraising project
The project is great and what they have done so far is wonderful
I wish every neighborhood had Mr.and Mrs. Jack
https://www.ioby.org/project/reading-room-project
mcmasters who represent the boeing military-industrial complex, does look like Daddy Warbucks of Little Orphan Annie fame. He is the new voice of the WH. If Harward had taken his job, instead? lockheed-martin would be the preferred vendor of the WH. trump selects boeing exec mattis recommends. mcmasters is tied to boeing who successfully sold iran a lot of product last year during Obama’s term. trump pushes boeing sales to Finland, etc. during joint press conference. All he talks about is how many planes we are selling overseas. comey also worked for lockheed-martin. The military does use a lot of lockheed-martin defense software., but trump has selected boeing as his corporation of choice.
okay, Jamie, challenge on – dueling songs for september
Congrats to all those trail mixers celebrating anniversaries ?
I almost can’t stand the seeing HRC out and about and talking about the election. Just too painful. Makes me more certain than ever that something was haywire. Will probably never trust the validity of an election result again.
The goopers don’t want people to vote They spend a lot of time and Koch Bros money figuring out how to depress voting It is legalized cheating. There is no doubt in my mind that Clinton would have won if the goopers had not removed millions nationwide from the voting rolls. And Comey was a big fat jerk He had to mansplain his position.
The first one 1959
Cha-cha-cha
September serendipity. Kinda a Whitman’s sampler of September songs. Some repeats of those above, a bunch of others.
Flatus, watching the Ravens smersh the Browns. From what I can tell a ticket on the 50 in Baltimore should cost about a song. Lots of empty ones.
have to turn the volume up on this one… very sofly said and sung by ives, but lovely like the leaves
tony, bet you’ll like this.
good response by hrc in wapo’s story “Trump shares GIF of himself striking Hillary Clinton in the back with a golf ball”
After Trump tweeted a reference to Clinton’s new book last week (“She lost the debates and lost her direction!”), she offered to mail him a copy of the picture book version of her 2006 “It Takes a Village.”
“If you didn’t like that book, try this one — some good lessons in here about working together to solve problems,” Clinton tweeted at Trump.
Renee, looks like Tom’s back.
Pogo, the Browns? Where’s Otto Graham?
Jace, a fine selection for a lovely September!
Jamie, your poignant Johnny Cash post prompted me to look at his bio.
Patd
I love, love, love Yves Montand. There is an old movie “Grand Prix” where he plays the French driver who dies in a crash towards the end. I walked out of the theater moaning, “Why couldn’t they kill James Garner?”
Reading through Craig’s Times opinion-piece, the author concluded that compromises in the Constitution’s wording were chosen by economically driven political reasons.
I believe they were chosen for far looking pragmatic reasons in giving us the tool-making ability we need to get out of situations such as we now find ourselves. The ability to create the 25th Amendment demonstrated their foresight in creating such a tool. All we now need is for Citizens to demand its implementation, or that of a less subtle constitutional remedy.
Interesting considering our discussion on the late sixties; 25th Amendment adopted in 1965 and ratified in 1967.
How a National Tragedy Led to 25th amendment
Not a compelling message when pollsters had identified uprooting corruption in D.C. as the winning message in 2016. trump won on being an outsider draining the swamp (civil service). HRC would have won big if she’d run as the knowledgeable insider who could drain the swamp (corporate lobbyists).
“September Song” is from a 1938 Broadway flop called Knickbocker Holiday. In context, it was sung by an aging Peter Stuyvesant. Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson wrote the melancholy little piece to suit the limited vocal range of their Pegleg Pete–the venerable character actor Walter Huston.
Never heard it myself until Willie Nelson recorded it on his first classic pop album, Stardust. Want to think that was around 1978, but don’t quote me.