ZZ Top - She's Got Legs - BeachLife Festival 2024

Suspension Bridges

After two days

Of cold rain,
The sun shines big
On the two Tacoma
Narrows Bridges,
Which hang from
The huge cables
That hang from them.

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Piano Genius and NEA Jazz Master Keith Jarrett Asks, What is Music?

Before He Could Walk, Viggo Mortensen Crawled Away From Home (Twice!)

THE OLD OAK - Official Trailer - Directed by Ken Loach

The Owl

As silently as an untold secret,

an owl passed over our heads
into trees and out of our view
forever. People, creatures,

and things visit our lives,
then leave. Come in, go out.
And each of us passes by
or into lives of others,
and then we leave. They
forget, we forget, and then
once upon a future, we die.

And the unseen owl has seized
something to eat & takes it
to the nest in a forest beyond dreaming.

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Honest Government Ad | Democracy™ 🌍

How a total disaster became the world’s best-selling piano album

Willie May's "The Catch"

Birds Today

A fat, orange-bellied robin,

connoisseur of worms, sat

on an old phone line, trilling.

A gray heron, just off a rocky

beach in shallows, staring

down like a chess player

at minnows. Crow, political

birds, gathered and quarreled

like union organizers.

A black-hooded junco

sat on a roof and sternly

clicked at me. And a brown

hedge sparrow ran beside

boxwood, saw me, dove

into the brush. Birds

surveil us, live with us.

They're guardians of a kind.

They have their reasons.

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A Mysterious Design That Appears Across Millennia | Terry Moore | TED

Killjoy

 (or, negative thinking in iambic tetrameter)

Sometimes I am afraid of joy,
As if it is too much--a trap--
Enticement to a leap iinto
Seductive light and perfumed air
That must end in a tumble down
A lethal twisting iron stair.

I guess the sour trickery
Of life has halved my optimism,
And turned me puritanical,
Worst-case scenarios deep-scripted &
Embedded in my skittish mind.
Yes, hard to trust in joy, I find.

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Exploring California's Highway 39 - Closed For Over 40 Years