episode 86: meditation notes - like a mountain
June 24, 2020
The body and the mind both look like a mountain.
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Other posts about meditation here
episode 85: poems about trains ( the wonderful effects of Leicester)
June 16, 2020
Some of the poems in this collection are critical of the speculative riches of the railway directors, fueled by extraction of resources and accumulation of capital. This is not one of those poems. This poem celebrates the availability of cheap rail travel, although there's what I consider an uneccesarily cruel outcome for the poor old horses running the coaches.
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I'm reading all the poems in the collection "RailwayRhymes" edited by Peter Ashley and available here if you want to read along. Here are all the podcast episodes from this series: ZenGlop - Poems About Trains
Today's poem The Wonderful Effects of the Leicester Railway
episode 84 - Eurovision: UK in the 70's. Coco ('78) and the New Seekers ('72)
June 06, 2020
In which I sing along with two Eurovision entries. I'm no singer, but let's say the result is charming/endearing. I believe that the years 1971 - 1981 were the apotheosis of Eurovision at least as far as entries from the UK. I see many similarities between the 1978 entry from Coco ( Bad Old Days) and the 1972 entry from The New Seekers ( Beg Steal or Borrow). I was old enough in 1978 to remember the entry, not quite yet aware in 1972.
more posts about Eurovision here
CoCo The Bad Old Days
The New Seekers Beg Steal or Borrow
The New Seekers Like to Teach the World to Sing