Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

"The Lark Ascending" has a different vibe - aspirational, maybe? It flirts with prettiness, but stops short of becoming precious - in the opinion of this musical philistine, anyway... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdVtLPGBqVI

"Dark Pastorale" might not be a bad place to start - it isn't dark as much as elegiac, and quite cinematic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5tquD727ik

Been listening to a lot of Vaughan Williams lately - I've heard him in on NPR for many years, but always unobtrusively in the background - always eliciting a "gee, I rather like that", but never "wow, I like that!"... Pleasant orchestral music in a classical vein, but not archaic & academic, nor ove...

I must say you've taken puncil in hand demonstrated a punchant for punnmanship - at the risk of punderous puntification, I'd venture this to be the punnacle of the form,,, (Damn you Autocorrect, get out of the way!)

Same - I've noticed the stylistic shift - longer lines, more conversational. I've just unearthed a primal scream from my own archive that I'm debating whether to clean up or just re-inter it...

dreams
life's memories
replayed on shuffle

Oh yeah... I've got a clear memory of driving along a stretch of discontinued road atop a steep-sided knife-edge ridge, now overgrown; but when I walk it today, there's no sign of a dropoff on either side. False memory? Real memory, wrong place? A dream? Who knows...

Ain't that the truth. Fake News! Climate Change is a Hoax! Science Sez That Bumblebees Can't Fly! Horse Tranquilizers Will Cure Covid! ... Drill, Baby, Drill...

Sagan had that rare balance of intellectual rigor and spirituality...

You're right, of course - except maybe for one word: that they're weaponizing "THEIR" science. Those powers that be aren't doing the work - they're cherrypicking, (mis)quoting what they've (mis)read in the popular press's (mis)interpretation of peer-reviewed journals, for their own political or fina...

science isn't a corpus of knowledge - it's a process it's a way to amass that corpus not necessarily THE way - ANOTHER way more efficient than some - a way to systematize trial & error... and we who've adopted it are guilty of failing to discard the raiments of Truth that pop culture has naively dra...

Drill, baby, drill...

I think we who regard woodland tramping as prayer have that sense that, to the Earth, we are no larger than those ants and bugs are to us - and we can barely carry our own weight, much less 30x . We live here at her pleasure and would do well to show her a little more respect than our species has be...

This shouldn't take long, I thought.

ALL cats are cool. Just ask one.

BTW, the ICE metaphor didn't fail - it might have been TOO subtly worded, too indirect. In my opinion, it's better to err on the side of understatement than to be too loud and obvious. So don't trash the piece - it's just a matter of fine-tuning the volume. Like I said, just my opinion.....