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Throwback Thursday — kenne
Gallo del CieloTom Russell wrote a song about a destitute young man named Carlos Saragosa who steals a prize-fighting rooster named Gallo del Cielo. As the story goes, Saragosa wagers his sister’s locket, trying to win enough money to buy back the land stolen from his father.
This morning I stumbled on a short article inCounterpunchby Lorenzo Wolff titled,“Thirty Years Down the Road – Joe Ely, the Fighting Roster of Rock.”
“The song is meant to be about Saragosa, his struggle, and his defeat, but when Ely sings it, you can tell that he’s not relating the protagonist. How could he relate to someone who is crushed after only one defeat? No, Ely isn’t Saragosa. He’s the rooster, Gallo Del Cielo. You won’t see him giving up, he’ll fight until he no longer can, and whether it’s his heart that gives out or his fingers, it sure…
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Greater Roadrunner On The Run Leave a comment
Greater Roadrunner On The Run — Abstract Art by kenne
Greater Roadrunner
Born to run the desert roads
Metaphor for speed.
— kenne
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“Well it’s bad news from Houston, Half my friends are dying. ”  Leave a comment
Mr. V (James Vaughn) of Mr. & Mrs. V on Houston’s 90.1, KPFT — HDR Image by kenne
Mike Durbin of the Moe Hansum Band — Image by kenne
The Houston Blues community is feeling the pain. Two of the communities well known personallities past away this past week. To hornor the memory of these Houston friends, I’m sharing a Diunna Greenleaf video I posted several years ago — Growing Up and Growing Old in the Fellowship of Family and Friends.
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My Hoodoo Heaven (Santa Catalina Mountains) — Images by kenne
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Early Morning Hike In Saguaro National Park 2 comments
A post from November 27, 2012.
With the sun rising over the Rincon Mountains, east of Tucson in the Saguaro National Park,
The Monday Morning Milers begin hiking the Wildhorse Trail in a chilly 32 degree fall morning.
The Wildhorse Trail is very dusty from no rain in several months.
The desert grasses glow from the morning sun.
The trail leads toward one of the canyons along the Wildhorse Trail.
The park, named after the beautiful giant saguaro cactus, is occasionally graced by the rear crested saguaro cactus.
The saguaro cactus are rarely found in groups, such as this group of twelve 20 to 70-year-old saguaros.
Images by kenne
Long after death, the ribs of saguaro remain standing, a shadow of its live self.
kenne
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Cooper’s Hawk In Sabino Canyon — Image by kenne
A beautiful bird
And a super partiture
Love dive booming doves
— kenne
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Hiking In The Santa Catalina Mountains — Image by kenne
These regal,
sky islands exist,
unique, and vast,
unmatched diversity
raising summits
a sun sparkling
through the canyon
guiding hikers
to conquests
we aspire.
— kenne
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I feel it! — kenne
Life events are conspiring again to keep me out of my studio space to record new pieces — but it just so happens that I have this rocking Blues recorded back in 2007 with the LYL Band that’ll contrast with our pensive Frost meditation on work from last time. Today’s audio piece was made from Frost’s short poem titled “Fragmentary Blue,” now recast as “Fragmentary Blues.”
Unlike Carl Sandburg or Langston Hughes, I have no idea if the 1914 vintage Robert Frost had any experience or appreciation of this Afro-American musical form. A quick search found nothing, even though Frost’s lifetime overrode The Jazz Age, The Swing Era, and even early rock’n’roll.
But as poet Langston Hughes soon discovered, the lyrical expression of the Blues was a vital format worth picking up. A first draft of this post included a long aside about the importance of this Afro-American…
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Good Morning World! (Sonoran Desert Sunrise) — Images by kenne
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Amazon Rainforest Sunset (August 2019) — Image by kenne
Spending time on the river
walking its banks,
seeing the variety of wildlife,
that lingers there,
makes for beautiful
paintings and photographs,
for people to admire.
— kenne
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Caught In A Pinch — Image by kenne
Caught in a pinch, or is it in a jam?
— kenne
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Thurber’s Wild Cotton Blossoms (Sabino Canyon Recreation Area) — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
— James Thurber
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Catclaw Acacia Bean Pod “It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas!” Leave a comment
Nature Has Its Own Signs For The Season. (First Posted November 9, 2011.) — kenne
Catclaw Acacia Bean Pod “It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas!” — Image by kenne
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Morning Shadows In The Sonoran Desert — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Yes, the sun has risen again.
I can see the windows change and hear a dog barking.
The wind buckles the slender top of the alder,
the conversation of night birds hushes,
and I can hear my heart regular and strong.
I will live to see the day end as I lived to see
the earth turn molten and white, then to metal,
then to whatever shape we stamped into it
as we laughed the long night hours away
or sang how the eagle flies on Friday.
When Friday came, the early hours perfect
and cold, we cursed our only lives
and passed the bottle back and forth.
— from One Day by Philip Levine
Becoming is Superior to Being 