Friday, January 1st

What better way to start the new year?

Aretha Franklin, “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman” (G. Goffin, C. King, J. Wexler), live, Washington, D.C., 2015

 

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lagniappe

reading table

New Year’s Day—
everything is in blossom!
I feel about average.

—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), translated from Japanese by Robert Hass