The Hammock Papers

An excellent album ... ... to prioritize victory over, rather than coexistence with, the communist threat.

White Hawk, first of the cruisers to finish ...

With about 30 nautical miles to go, White Hawk is leading the way ...

Green, Henry David Thoreau , 1856 It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosp...

Modigliani, Portrait of a Polish Woman,  1919 I want to be a tune-swept fiddle string that feels the master melody, and snaps.  Amedeo ...

An excellent album ... ... to prioritize victory over, rather than coexistence with, the communist threat.

With Trey Hensley, Hayes Griffin, and my guy, Beppe Gambetta ...

Blake, The Ancient of Days , 1794 LONDON I wander thro' each charter'd street, Near where the charter'd Thames does flow.  And m...

"'Look, there's Billy Casper there wi' his pet hawk.' I could shout at 'em.  It's not a pet, Sir.  Hawks are no...

Mr. Lydon on respecting musical lineage and the danger of diluting the lessons of history ... Sitting in a room, alone, listening to ...

Technique is the proof of your seriousness. Wallace Stevens

Here's the opening Magnificat anima mea Dominum conducted by Graham Ross with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Clare C...

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Takashi Yasunami performs No. 8, "A Deserted Farm" ...

Steve points to the Mystic of Moyvane ... What chance have we when that's where we think we live.

I k eep getting asked by letter and on the street by Jane and John Does dressed in spandex, how they can prepare simple “gourmet” dinner...

Ronnie James Dio was born on this day in 1942. "Slipping Away"...

Jason Carter throwing high-octane fiddle fuel ... I love it when a cover is better than the original.

Peter Frampton released Wind of Change on this day in 1972. "All I Want to Be (Is By Your Side)" ...

From James Baldwin's letter to his nephew , 1962 ... To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.  In this case, t...

It's Olga Scheps ...

Pissarro, Garden and Henhouse at Octave Mirbeau, Les Damps , 1892 I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the ...

The 117th Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac begins today ... Track the race HERE . Watch the fleet finish from The Windemere .

We need more Hercules Mulligan-types around ... Washington’s own guard were willing to accept hard currency to betray their master.  They p...

The 117th Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac starts tomorrow.

The Wild Mushroom Well the sunset rays are shining Me and Kaihave got our tools A basket and a trowel And a book with all the rules Don'...

Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is unavoidable. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

McRae,  Pulling Down the Statue of George III , 1853 On this day in 1776, The Declaration of Independence was read aloud to General George ...

Ottorino Respighi was born on this day in 1879. Oksana Lyniv conducts the Youth Symphony of Ukraine in a performance of The Birds ...

The Economist : Are the e-bikes a paragon of liberalism or an abomination? The dominance of convenience also means the decline of ownership....

Catherine Van Handel, bassoon, with Rachael Kerr, piano ...

Stuart,  Major General Henry Knox , 1806 Every friend to the liberty of his country is bound to reflect, and step forward to prevent the dre...

Willie Nelson is the most underrated and under appreciated guitarist in the history of man ... What has happened to "music"?

What room is the Babe in?

SPIRIT Rumi advised me to keep my spirit up in the branches of a tree and not peek out too far, so I keep mine in the very tall willows alon...

A young writer once asked Hemingway, “Are there ten books one should read to become a writer?” Hemingway replied, “Yes, there are such...

Spiritual things ...

I am myself ensconced almost at the back wall, but even across the distance of this room, I can see clearly out into the sunlit street, and ...

Lionel Meunier conducts Vox Luminis in a performance of the the Beatus Vir Primo  ...

Unknown, Kant , 1790 Fifth Thesis The greatest problem for the human species, whose solution nature compels it to seek, is to achieve...

Brian Lamb dicsusses the book 1776 with its author, David McCullough ... [Henry Knox] is such an extraordinary story of an American who seem...

It is peculiar, but as soon as I am in the midst of nature and by myself, everything that is base and trivial vanishes without trace. On suc...

I am just a cowboy, lonesome on the trail A starry night, a campfire light The coyote call and the howlin' winds wail So I'll ride o...

Recorded at The Bluestone, in Columbus, Round-On-The-Ends-and-High-in-the-Middle ...