The Secret Path

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Jazz24.org's top one hundred tracks.

#54. Thelonius Monk, Ruby, My Dear.
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'Sure is raining.' Sarah Harmer and Jason Euringer, Stormy Weather.

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Safir Nou, New Lunacy.
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Sibelius, Six Humoresques.
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The Rolling Stones, No Expectations.
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Alan Stivell, Renaissance Of The Celtic Harp.
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The New Liberation Music Orchestra, Live.
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Carla Bley Trio, Cully Jazz Festival.
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Jan Garbarek Group, Maijazz.

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Monday, 2016 October 17.
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my art: a square, sort of--siennas, more to come.... 

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watched eat: the story of food (hooked on seafood) and the agenda (the future of US foreign policy, the trouble with anger).
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'Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.'--Arthur Miller (1915-2005). 'Miller's determination to deal with the eternal themes of life, death, and human purpose is one of his most prominent themes across his works.... Nearly all of Miller's protagonists struggle with the mark they leave on life and what it means to die.'
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Tuesday, 2016 October 18

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Virginia Frances Sterrett (1900–1931).
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more...
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watched the rick mercer report, 22 minutes, and a doc about nikolai tesla.
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Wednesday, 2016 October 19

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Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.
Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833-1870).
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susan went to a greenbelt meeting. we watched expedition tiger and nature (my congo).
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Thursday, 2016 October 20

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'You have to fall in love with hanging around words.'--John Ciardi, poet. and not just for writing poetry, but also for doing things like crosswords and scrabble.
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while susan was at a field naturalists' meeting, evening viewing was a toss-up: do i watch the nature of things (running on empty--about the drought in california) or the agenda (the true cost of nuclear [in ontario], nuclear refurbishment--pictured is ontario's darlington power station [i may have mixed up these links], 10 questions on threats to Great Lakes wetlands)? the agenda won out.

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Friday, 2016 October 21

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'Each one of us has inside something very special, which has nothing to do with jazz. It's about spirituality. It's about creation. It's about spontaneity. It's about that everyone has inside of them since the beginning of time the history of the universe. And what we really do when we improvise is we reach these deeper places inside of us.'--jazz bassist Charlie Haden.
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watched the agenda on-line (the true cost of nuclear, nuclear refurbishment), then the agenda on tv (story of the week), but we're not agenda junkies or anything.
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Saturday, 2016 October 22

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'i wanna capture what i see and what i hear and what i feel / it's the beauty of the thing'--'beauty of the thing' by those cursed ponies--susan went to an ontario nature conference and toured grant's woods. i stayed home and dug the trees out our back window.
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watched the nature of things (running on empty) and striking balance (mont saint-hilaire).
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Sunday, 2016 October 23

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watched the secret path ('an animated film from gord downie that tells the true story of chanie wenjack, a 12-year-old boy who died while trying to escape from a residential school and travel back home to his family over 400 miles away.' (trailer)

from gord downie: 'i am trying in this small way to help spread what [justice] murray sinclair said, “this is not an aboriginal problem. this is a canadian problem. because at the same time that aboriginal people were being demeaned in the schools and their culture and language were being taken away from them, and they were being told that they were inferior, they were pagans, that they were heathens and savages and that they were unworthy of being respected--that very same message was being given to the non-aboriginal children in the public schools as well…. they need to know that history includes them.” (murray sinclair, ottawa citizen, may 24, 2015)....

proceeds from the sale of [the recording and graphic novel] secret path will go to the gord downie secret path fund for truth and reconciliation via the national centre for truth and reconciliation at the university of manitoba.'