Cat looking at scissors

Cat

by Ken on July 2, 2009

I am NOT a cat person. But I could be accurately called an “animal” person. Cats have, to me, always been a bit mysterious; a bit too independent for my blood. It seemed that they really could care less about whether we are around or not.
Well this cat, the one that, basically, owns us; owns [...]

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The Piano – my earlier years

July 1, 2009

My instrument of choice, the one I spent a fair amount of time attempting to fathom, was and remains the piano.
I  started off with lessons, like most of us. And I hated them. I remember the gold stars that my teacher, Miss (or Mrs.) Lamp pasted on my songbooks. These sorry things were collections of [...]

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Two quick ones trying out new equipment

July 1, 2009

I re-recorded an old song I wrote some years back.  It is a different sound. In many ways I like the first recording on the late 70’s a bit better. Gives me room to improve to my former self.
Essence of my Dream
I’ve written many things of my sons. There is a poem I wrote [...]

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Guitar – the early days

July 1, 2009

I started out with a gut string guitar which I purchased for the last 14 bucks that I had in Tijuana, Mexico. Somehow, owning it gave me the gumption to actually learn to play the thing.
During my summer of selling Fuller Brush I stumbled upon a home that affected my life in a rather startling [...]

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My Banjo Days – and other anomolies.

July 1, 2009

I was always a John Hartford fan. From the first time I saw him, with Vassar Clements, on the lawns of University of Florida, I was hooked. I bought a banjo with the dollars left over from my flying, and I learned to play it with Bob Higginbottom. Bob was the top player in the [...]

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Mom

June 30, 2009

Early memories are difficult to sort, at times. The fleeting pictures with differing indices of backgrounds. “Was that there – or maybe there?” or “Had I lost my first tooth yet?”
My memories of Mom seem to start with a hand. How interesting. It was a hand pulling a sled. I recall laying in that cradle [...]

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