timeless
Famous Blue Jay Singers of Birmingham, Alabama, “I’m Bound for Canaan Land,” recorded in Chicago, 1947
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
*****
reading table
Where did my life come from?
Where will it go?—Ryōkan (1758-1831), from an untitled poem (translated from classical Chinese by Ryūichi Abé and Peter Haskel)
testify!
Vernard Johnson (alto saxophone, vocals), live, Fort Worth, Tx.
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill
back to church
Mt. Do-Well Baptist Church Hymn Choir, “That Morning Train,” live, McConnells, S.C., 2006
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
basement jukebox
The Mellotones, “Everything’s Gonna Be Alright” (J.B. Scaife), 1963
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday morning, Chicago (Columbus Park)
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reading table
Two dangers never cease threatening the world: order and disorder.
—Paul Valéry (1871-1945), Analects (quoted in Lyn Hejinian, “The Rejection of Closure”)
alone
Cory Henry (1987-, organ), “He Has Made Me Glad,” live
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
back to church
“I Have Crossed That Separating Line,” Mt. Moriah Baptist Church, Chester, S.C., 2001
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
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reading table
I shall keep singing!
—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), from 270 (Franklin)
back to church
J. (“Pop”) Isom and Union Baptist Church Hymn Choir (Newport, South Carolina), “When I’m Gone,” live, Center Baptist Church, South Carolina
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
sounds of Philadelphia
Davis Sisters (featuring Ruth Davis), “I Believe I’ll Go Back Home,” live (TV show: TV Gospel Time), 1960s
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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
more
Soul Stirrers (feat. Sam Cooke, Paul Foster), live, Los Angeles, 1955
“I Have a Friend Above All Others,” “Be With Me Jesus”
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“Nearer My God to Thee”
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lagniappe
random sights
a while ago, off the coast of Maine
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reading table
The present
must be kept empty
so that anything
can happen:—Rae Armantrout (1947-), from “Empty”
more
Soul Stirrers (featuring Sam Cooke [1931-1964]), “Touch the Hem of His Garment” (S. Cooke), 1956
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
