Category: Disability

• “We Are All Patriots”

  Above: Raytheon Theater at the Patriots Hall of Fame in Foxboro MA Recently, a colleague here in Durham NC asked me if I was excited about the Super Bowl because I am from New England and the Patriots are in the big game – again.  I said no.  He was surprised. Being a native of…

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  February 3, 2019

  Disability, Mental Health, Politics, Sports

  45, Bill Bellichick, Darryl Stingley, Franco Harris, John Kerry, John Madden, John Stallworth, Junior Seau, New England Patriots, NFL, Patriots Hall of Fame, Raytheon, Robert Kraft, Sudbury Massachusetts, Ted Johnson, Ted Kennedy, Tom Brady, Tom Dispatch, William Hartung

• Monsanto in the Classroom?

  I spent the weekend editing vocals after reading an article that bore close relation to the subject matter of one of the songs I was working on.  The track is called Contamination in the Grass and it deals with Monsanto and other similar agribiz corporations such as Dow Chemical and Syngenta.  The lyrics takes many…

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  January 12, 2015

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Disability, Education, Music, Work In Progress

  ADHD, Anthony Samsel, Autism Spectrum Disorders, EPA, Fidelitorium, Glyphosate, Monsanto, Rachel Carson, Reuters, Silent Spring, Stephanie Seneff, Syngenta, Wire

• Top 40 over 40.18: Peter Hughes and Dipa Ma

  I was once listening to an episode of Car Talk on NPR and heard a woman call in to Click and Clack with the following dilemma:  she had a Honda that was running perfectly, and that had proven to be very reliable over the years. Nevertheless, she found the car boring.  She found herself eyeing…

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  December 14, 2014

  Buddhism, Disability, History, Mental Health, Music, Politics, The Dharma, Top 40 Over 40, Wisecracks

  american empire, Awakening Truth, Chile, Dipa Ma, Fangio, Feminism, Henry Kissinger, Hillary Clinton, Juan Manuel Fangio, Music, Peter Hughes, Pinochet, Salvador Allende, Sayadaw U Tejaniya, The Dharma, Top 40 Over 40, Vipassana, Vipassana Hawaii

• Unhand Me

  From “Major Aranda’s Hand,” by Alfonso Reyes: “Major Aranda suffered the loss of a hand in battle, and, unfortunately for him, it was his right hand…A delicate instrument, [the hand] possesses the most fortunate physical resourcres: hinges, pincers, tongs, hooks, bony little chains, nerves, ligaments, canals, cushions, valleys and hillocks.  It is soft and hard,…

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  October 30, 2013

  Book excerpts, Disability, Mental Health, Wisecracks

  Alfonso Reyes, Bordering Fires, Folk Implosion, Major Aranda’s Hand, Palm of My Hand

• Top 40 over 40.14: Susan Te Kahurangi King

  This series of posts is mostly about musicians who had growth spurts after 40, but today I’m posting about a visual artist I read about today thanks to Alastair Galbraith, whose records I very much admire.  I consider his album Mass to be among the finest in our genre. Alastair posted a link to a…

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  October 12, 2013

  Disability, Mental Health, Top 40 Over 40, Visual art

  Alastair Galbraith, disability, Feminism, mental health, sexuality, Susan King, Top 40 Over 40, visual art