music clip of the day

old school

Tommy Ellison & The Singing Stars, “I’m Not the Same Person,” live, Hempstead, N.Y., 2007

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lagniappe

reading table

I hear a river thro’ the valley wander
Whose water runs, the song alone remaining.

—Trumbull Stickney (1874-1904), “Dramatic Fragments,” excerpt

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random sights

yesterday morning, Chicago (Columbus Park)