Over the past couple of years we spent a good amount of time helping friends navigate hospital stays. We started to write a piece about the many strategies we devised. THEN we stumbled on some photos of Yoko Ono’s hospital stay in the late sixties. The room was full of visuals that antidoted the ugly…
Read More573 Essential Words about Gun Violence (Charlie Allenson + Yoko Ono)
A few years ago, Yoko Ono tweeted a photo of John Lennon’s bloodied glasses. The image, taken not long after his murder — an artist’s way of healing — would become part of a powerful control campaign. Charlie Allenson took his own step toward healing by writing about the murder of his beloved niece in Huffington Post. ‘The Car in the Lot’ is a potent 573 words worth of essential reading.
Read MoreIt’s a New Year: Imagine!
(Video link HERE!) The lovely GIF we saw at Hedwiggen, below, suddenly made us flash on John Lennon singing Imagine in 1971, over forty years ago. The video he made with Yoko Ono, with its image of the opening up of the dark, shuttered rooms of a house to light, resonates still. We think of all that happened to…
Read MorePop Music Wisdom for Thanksgiving and Beyond
Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow: Pop Music Wisdom excerpts wisdom and advice from 250 pop songs. Some of them are spot on. Here are two, with the music.
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