Friday Night Musik and Meela Update

 Meela is home on palliative, comfort care. She loves living here like we do.

We spent a lot of porch sitting time together.

She is eating a little, drinking fluids and bowel and bladder working.

Very fatigued with self limited bursts of energy.

Keep your prayers coming. We feel a reassurance there is a higher power at work 🙏🏼

As for My weekly Music Selection,

Feeling nostalgic for the life before we were all connected by airwaves.

Enjoy 😉 Tgiff 👍🏼

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— Mary Gerdt (@marygerdt) August 6, 2020

Blues Excellence

Blues Excellence

The Blues 

Main St. Edwardsville, Illinois
The Blue Note
Painted by My Mom, Betsy Gerdt
Then a small town
20 miles east of St. Louis.

Bear with me, I have to start at the beginning...

As we reconnected with the music of Levon Helm,

We wondered "What are these Midnight Rambles?"

                         

Well the best way at the time was to get the DVD's

Of the rambles at LevonHelm.com

These are a great view of Levon's recording studio living room.

They were masterfully created and worth adding to your collection.

They also introduced us to some very talented musicians,

Good people

With an adoration of Levon

And People

And Music.

I particularly enjoyed the concert by

Alexis P Suter and her band.

They blew me away.

Every musician,

No holding back,

Full, forceful, gentle, kind.

Loving, Sadness, Living, suffering, 

Powerful, Honest, and Vulnerable.

The Blues

Blues Excellence

So I recently received a notice that Alexis P Suter has been

Nominated for the Prestigious Koko Taylor award

So well deserved.

All musicians must make their own way to Memphis.

I want to share my feelings that musicians make the world a better place

So please...

Please help Alexis get to Memphis May 7th, 2015

Send donations now to support Stellar Blues Music

The Alexis P Suter Band

Hipbone Records

Alexis put a paypal link at 
http://www.hipbonerecords.com/


Click the Hipbone Records Shop page. Thank you so much for your help!!

Their mailing address is:

Hipbone Records

PO Box 310158

Brooklyn, NY 11231

Here is a YouTube that begins to tell Alexis' Story

About Koko Taylor,

May She Rest in Peace

Great Woman Blues Singer.

Information

From her record label.

http://www.alligator.com/artists/Koko-Taylor/

Notes: this is the 3rd edition this morning.
Somehow the .jpg of the top hat
Kept fighting with me,
Finally emailed myself a copy
And the rest is magic.

Support these talen musicians.
Thank you.  Meg

A Friend's words

My friend Che posted a great song link (link is above).
Che posted as songs for the neuro appointment.

http://multiplesclerosisprincess.blogspot.com/2011/05/songs-for-neuro-appts.html

What a great post by Che!

Also the weather here crazy storms,
the worse lightning for New England,
I saw a bolt of lightning hit the ground a few hundred feet south of here.
No tornadoes but close.
Have to post when we can get on the phone line.
Blogger comments all messed up,
my friends,
I am reading and will have more zeit this weekend.
don't want to be misunderstood.......
mary

Friend

She adopted a cat from us and always asked how we were.
I know that sentence might seem strange to some but not to me.

A friend is someone who cares as much, no actually more, about stray feral cats
than they do about empty things like money and power.

A friend looks at you with her piercing eyes, looking into your soul,
scouring the dark places,
Are you OK?

A friend is lost in a senseless moment of time,
taking away the opportunity to say goodbye, farewell,
or I love you
for being an animal lover,
lover of the poor,
downtrodden,
and sad in the world.

Never again in this material plane will I see her to say
goodbye,
farewell,
I love you,

Dana.

A Friend's words

A Friend's words came across the Atlantic Ocean and she just knows how to hit the spot.
Thanks, Herrad.
You are a great friend.
She quoted a man who I have yet to look up in this wonderful library of worldwide info.
Funny how words can hit the spot, have extraordinary meaning.
Especially when you feel someone knows you.

here it is:


Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim.


Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Harvey Fierstein



have a great day in your corner of the planet.
mary gerdt, monkton, vermont