Nashville Jam "Proud Mary"

Some great music for Monday
meg

Another Year 3

Lake Champlain

A wonderful day yesterday,
with friends, food,
children busy running around.
by this big, beautiful lake.
(were we all together in another time? another era?)
Photos from Another Year. meg

Colors

Guy Forsyth Live at Blues Peer July 2014 full concert

Could be no doubt,
Surfing YouTube desperately,
Then I saw Guy Forsyth put up this link,
heard a few bars,and...
I knew this would be Friday Night Music,
for the last Friday in August 2015...
Thank you, Mr. Guy Forsyth.

Art & Music

Art & Music

Susan Shulman

smile!

@marygerdt @Lesism @MJasonHouck @RevolutionsHub @NursesGroup thx and enjoy the day and smile pic.twitter.com/YrA8zMDB9M

— susan shulman (@shulman_susan) August 25, 2015

art and music

music and art

one thing leads to another

another leads to another

music and art

art and music

Late August Colors

The colors

Of

August

 And September...until the first hard frost.meg

Ed

The neighbor was kind in sharing this special moment with Ed,
This year the Earth is slowly swallowing Ed's sawmill,
You can barely see a roof in the sumac.

When a man finds something that makes him this happy,
How does it get any better than this?
Ed found it.

Black Country Communion - "Crossfire" - Live Over Europe

great rock and roll...
link popped up on my youtube subscriptions.

enjoy...

Another Year 2

Another Year 2

Was it just a painful reminder

of what I cannot do this year?

This bountiful garden photo from 2011.

No, it has to be a pleasant memory,

of what we did that year,

Another year.

Friday Night Musik

Friday Night Musik

From YouTube
Enjoy!

Sweet sounds from the top of Mount Philo - WCAX.COM Local Vermont News, Weather and Sports-

Sweet sounds from the top of Mount Philo - WCAX.COM Local Vermont News, Weather and Sports-


Link from wcax tv station,
Burlington, Vermont

Coloring Book. The Beach

Coloring Book
The Beach.

Enjoy
Sun,
Sand,
Lighthouses,
and
friends.

When will there be a DMT for PPMS?

Woke up,
    Remembering
         Remembering,
I hadn't posted a daily post.

Yes,
     Blogging has become
          A sweet obsession
In this daily tedium of coping with outwardly invisible chronic illness.

Answers,
       What I am looking for,
              When I write
In my worldwide journal,
This video I had saved for special days like today,
Waking to an empty page.

PPMS is a reality to many,
Feared by the knowledgeable
The sensible ones.

As I write this,
Cautiously hopeful,
Tentatively positive,
Carefully analytical,
Enormously empathetic,
To the level of disability that can occur with PPMS

Healthcare Reform....Fact or fiction?

Raise your hand,

If you recognize this as a US doctor's examination room.

FYI,

None of the items in this photo

Will make you healthy.

How you feel about this room

Is directly related to

Your past experiences

With such a room.

Some of your most serious lifetime conversations happen here.

Only with the addition of people,

Will this room potentially take on powers,

Healing, diagnostics, therapeutic encounters,

Hard conversations,

Avoidance, denial, anger, acceptance,

Planning,

Education,

All can happen here.

Or not.

The concept of healthcare reform

Is inconceivable.

The variables,

The formulae,

Protocols,

Costs, belief systems, cultures,

Too much to analyze,

Make sense of,

Predict outcomes.

(Seems most of what I saw was billing codes...not reform!)

I believe the system of healthcare in the U.S.

Cannot be reformed by taking pictures of doctor's offices,

With the caption,

Healthcare Reform.

Like this photo,

Meaningless without the people,

The patient, their people,

The doctor, nurse, the healthcare providers.

Healthcare reform

Should not be penned by politicians,

Healthcare lobbyists,

Or CPA's.

(Sorry, missed a few words first go around)

The people who should have the biggest input...

The people who would be in this room:

Patient, family, and doctors, nurses.

Black Renaissance - Fantastic Negrito

news link
and
another yt link...
this weekend is for
the Fantastic Negrito.
meg

The Incredible Life, Near-Death and Rebirth of Xavier Dphrepaulezz | KQE...

youtube link...

Fantastic Negrito - "Lost in a Crowd" (NPR Tiny Desk 2015 Winner) Friday Night Musik!

i heard the echoes of injustice
when i heard they wrangled him,
manhandled this musician.
this weekend is for him,
his music resonates,
his story brave,
his path crossed mine
on the www
meg

Medical Marijuana Access for Patients | Medical Marijuana Laws | Drug Policy Alliance

Medical Marijuana Access for Patients | Medical Marijuana Laws | Drug Policy Alliance

For more today about Multiple Sclerosis...
Click above link and take action if you agree.

meg

The Thin Veil

The Thin Veil

The thin veil
Between me and my medical people,
The Dragon,
The MonSter, nipping at my nerves,
The Dragon,
Can you see it?

Link to Skipinnish

Another mind bending video from Skipinnish

Tommy at the Office

Tommy has his office,
Sparsely furnished,
And Levon Helm Midnight Rambles print
we received as a special gift.
Don't wake him early,
He gets a little cranky.

Close to home

Today 

The synchronicity seemed exceptionally powerful today,

You know,

Things seem to fall into place.

Today, We seemed to go through our normal life out here,

Forgetting for a moment the horrific winter past or the cold spring and half the summer.

Normal can be exceptional by itself.

Then Twitter surfing yielded a story

Close to home,

Well, sort of.

 Recently I became a fan of The Fantastic Negrito

There's a YouTube link I posted.

Takes a lot for me to be a fan, not boasting, just saying, I can only handle so much :) meg

Here's a link to the story:

http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_28609912/oakland-musician-says-he-was-handcuffed-detained-by

I hope you're as angry as I am...

Now for a YouTube of The Fantastic Negrito's

This NPR winning tiny concert...

Wow!

Enjoy and let him know you support him.

Radio Waves

Radio Waves

How old was I?

When I was bestowed 

A hand me down white rectangular radio.

It was my gateway to

Music, news, weather, sports, banter.

The radio on my nightstand is Sangean,

The newest addition,

Kindle fire with radio apps,

Tune In, I Heart radio.

Happy listening!

Clutter

Clutter

Such Clutter,

What generates such a mess?

Piling Procrastination

On top of Avoidance,

Comfortable,

Status Quo,

Yes.

My blog virtually reflecting,

From writing to writer,

Areas of real life clutter,

Some fate,

Some manmade.

The words fall,

Hoping the reader will see,

Clutter is not so bad,

Well at least not to me.

Friday Night Musik

This week nearly missed my posting.
Picked out what I wanted and never scheduled.
Woke up and remembered.meg
Happy Friday.

Link from YouTube...BBC

Rerun, again

When the night air starts to get heavy with dew,
The fall is approaching,
Ever so gradually,
The Coyotes know.
My favorite.

Summer Reruns

(note: the local pay newspaper addison independent [but dependent on gaz ads] has commenters like myself on their online version. we commenters are forced to regulate our own tongues, surprised me that they do not moderate the comments. commenter anonymity adds another layer of confusion. anonymous or fictitiously named people reply to my honest, out there, using my name anti fracking commentary. They reply with negative thoughts about me or my beliefs or my speaking up is unbecoming or what i write makes them go daff, then they read more. is it my fault when they go daff from reading my fr*ckin' comments? The lowest blow, was one of them saying i could not be a poet. I can say now, weathered by peoples' hateful rants, it really did not bother me. which all led me to rerun this poem, one of my favorites, each time i post it, it gains new meanings. were they there all along? meg)

Summer reruns

A rerun of one of my favorites.

Summer memories are warm and sweet. I wanted to share a poem even while fearing once I let it out I will be unable to ever outdo it in feeling and depth of myself immersed therein.


Coyote Night by Mary Gerdt * 2008 all rights reserved
When we walk down a road in the dark,
And the Coyotes are crying their mournful cry,
The smells of summer drift and hang in the valley
And little night birds chirp goodnight.
The stars peek out from the clouds of August mist
The moon hangs over the hills by home.
My memories fade to days gone by
When we looked at the nights from inside.
Now we walk on the path outside
Not afraid anymore.
While the coyotes cry.

Mom

Mom

It was not intentional,

That Mom's image should appear,

First as a hat,

Then I don't remember.

At some point in my exercise,

Mom's image appeared.

I took the easy way out avoiding her eyes.

The cool sunglasses fit perfectly.

This was a breaking out Zentangle.

I used 5 objects instead of one.

Use your imagination what they mean.

I saw glimpses of Mom's Akashic Record.

She said to take notes.

Mission accomplished.

Love to Mom in her present incarnation,

She Believed.

Link to great music...

Warren Haynes
Found this link yesterday, 
posted by Classic Rock Radio
Just had to post this...
Wow...

Photographic Adventures

Photo Retouch offered a free app,
A new adventure,
A bazillion ways to edit photos.
Here a couple we met from West Virginia became my first experiment.

For Cat Lovers Only!

...all others go take your dog, monkey or snake for a walk...

Friend across the pond shared her cat related "mews"letter...
Enjoy and subscribe, she loves cats!


http://www.thedailymews.com/

The editor was kind to publish an article I wrote...Thanks!

For a direct link to my article, http://www.thedailymews.com/information/charities-and-rescue-centres/1467-cats-of-y2k
Be sure to subscribe to the Daily Mews!

Tedeschi Trucks Band - Angel From Montgomery/Sugaree

Link from youtube,
Tedeschi Trucks Band,
Enjoy this like I have.