Saturday shorts.

The cast of characters, setting up for your sleep in "In Your Dreams":

In Your Dreams

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Friday art.

The making of girl and octopus, a mixed media art painting on wood, by Tamara Laporte.



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Thursday music selections.

Today is all about grace with death and lament, largely focused in music on my mother. So the music is largely country, bluegrass and some folk. The link provided after, is a portrait series, said as being:

"This sombre series of portraits taken of people before and after they had died is a challenging and poignant study. The work by German photographer Walter Schels and his partner Beate Lakotta, who recorded interviews with the subjects in their final days, reveals much about dying - and living.

So fair warning before you click through, it is very heavy and might be disturbing for you to view. So bear that in mind before you choose whether or not to do so.

First, the music:

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And here's the link of portraits:

Life Before Death.

Wednesday feel good.

Cab Calloway doing "Jumpin Jive", with the limber badassery of the Nicholas Brothers to accompany and show up, from 'Stormy Weather':



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Tuesday funnies.

A Budweiser commercial, all about the cursing, which of course makes it close to my tepid and coarse heart:

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Monday morning music.

The vaguely ethereal, yet emotionally grounded, sound of "Detlef Schrempf" - by Band of Horses:



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Sunday inspiration.

Randy Pausch's engaging last lecture on "Achieving Your Childhood Dreams":



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