Love, strength and courage ~ The greatest things you’ll ever learn

The greatest thing you'll ever learn...

Every now and again I post a status message on Facebook that generates a comment storm. And every now and again, that comment storm generates ideas good enough for a blog post, as it did with The Tao of Love and Light: Riffing on physics and faith. Yesterday morning I […]

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Nothing Else Matters when Bif Naked is your muse

Bif Naked ~ Superbeautifulmonster

Bif Naked came into my life in an odd way, the leading edge of a wave of the odd, the uncanny, the revelatory. This song has a lot of meaning for me, coming as it did the fist time amidst upheaval, chaos and — ultimately — awakening. And she came […]

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Wild Horses: everyone covers the Rolling Stones

harriet Wheeler of The Sundays

I love covers. My iPod holds hundreds of them. Wild Horses being among my favourite songs, there should be no surprise it’s covered several times over. I thought I’d share a few of them with you…and a new one shared with me just this morning. This first one …Mmm… a […]

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A selection of music from the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games Opening Ceremony

Vancouver Olympics 2010

Sarah McLachlan, I’ve been told, has perfect pitch. Her performance at the opening ceremony was also pitch-perfect. She had me the very first time she flashed that smile of hers — bright as the sun, and open like a flower in full bloom. That may seem a superficial reason to […]

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Roberta Flack & Johnny Cash: The first time ever I heard your voice

Roberta Flack

I love covers. Have I said that before? It’s always a bit of a thrill when I find some beloved song masterfully covered by another artist. (See my post regarding Feist’s transcendant cover of Secret Heart.) What I also love are the emotional inflections each cover artist brings to a […]

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Traveling to Los Angeles to Las Vegas

Stevie Ray Vaughn ~ Double Trouble ~ Little Wing

The pipeline from Los Angeles to Las Vegas is a well-traveled route for sportsbook enthusiasts, but it’s also home to some of the busiest sportsbooks in the world, thankfully bettors can now visit websites like FanDuel and place their bets from home. While a big bet can move the dollar […]

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