music clip of the day

timeless

The Staple Singers, “Uncloudy Day,” 1956

It was the most mysterious thing I’d ever heard. It was like the fog rolling in. I heard it again, maybe the next night, and its mystery had even deepened. What was that? How do you make that?

—Bob Dylan (quoted in M. Davidson & P. Fishel, eds., Bob Dylan: Mixing up the Medicine [2023])

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lagniappe

random sights

other day, Oak Park, Ill.

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reading table

The unreality of our house in moonlight
Is that if the moonlight strikes it
It is truly there tho it is ours

—George Oppen (1908-1984), from “Route”