You Forget Yourself
November 26th, 2017 | by msalt
In the Broadway smash hit “Hamilton,” our hero meets his future wife Eliza Schuyler by first hitting on her sister [&hellip
November 26th, 2017 | by msalt
In the Broadway smash hit “Hamilton,” our hero meets his future wife Eliza Schuyler by first hitting on her sister [&hellip
April 20th, 2016 | by msalt
I just ran across a classic post at Maria Popova’s always worthwhile BrainPickings that illuminates the connection between martial arts [&hellip
March 16th, 2014 | by msalt
There are few American writers more criminally under-appreciated than poet Jane Hirshfield. A student of Zen, and a graduate of [&hellip
March 5th, 2014 | by msalt
How can you find meditative quiet in a busy city? The Taoist poet T’ao Ch’ien (365 – 427 C.E.) knows. [&hellip
September 4th, 2013 | by msalt
Here are a couple of highlights, to go with this classic bit of damaged punky blues from 1980. Morris Tepper [&hellip
July 13th, 2013 | by msalt
Continuing this series about a great blue song in its various incarnations. The first example was an unreleased 1968 Rolling [&hellip
July 8th, 2013 | by msalt
Something a little different — I’m going to trace back several versions of a favorite blues song, known alternately as [&hellip
May 26th, 2013 | by msalt
Van Morrison is problematic. Sometimes he’s so precious, easy listening or POETIC that I just want to slap him. But [&hellip
April 22nd, 2013 | by msalt
I seem to be on a music kick lately, for no particular reason, except that it suits this website super [&hellip
April 19th, 2013 | by msalt
“Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to sound like yourself.” – Miles Davis Email this [&hellip