One of the things that seems out of place in my life is my love for all sorts of music. I enjoy various forms from the classical to the popular. What is out of place regarding my love for music is that I cannot play any instrument nor can I sing on key. I have attempted to understand why music has such an appeal for me, even though I do not possess any musical ability. I cannot explain it. While I am overwhelmingly right-brained and am creative in writing, photography, and landscaping, I cannot explain my great interest in music.
Even though I lack any musical talent, I would also like to know why a composer wrote any score of music that I truly enjoy. Hence, this section, Music I Love and Why, is dedicated to sharing some of my favorite music and what motivated the composer to write it. I hope that you enjoy both parts.
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Amid the Chaos A Suggestion about the Next Four Years | 11/08/24 |
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The Music That Floated Around in My Head On Election Night | 11/06/24 |
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What’s with Nancy Nurenberg? It’s All About Feeling Dumb and Poor | 08/14/24 |
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What’s It All About, Alfie According to Longfellow | 05/31/24 |
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My Grandmother’s Words Haunt and Inspire Me | 05/20/24 |
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Every Day is Like Survival You're My Lover Not My Rival | 05/13/24 |
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What’s with Bohemian Rhapsody And Our Takeaway | 05/08/24 |
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Immortal Beloved Beethoven’s, Shakespeare’s, and Mine | 04/19/24 |
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Total Eclipse of the Heart Revisited | 04/17/24 |
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A Whiter Shade of Pale What’s It All About, Alfie? | 03/29/24 |
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Träumerei Then and Now | 03/15/24 |
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Trump Has Some Issues with Taylor Swift Beyond His Legal Woes and Coming Up with a Half Billion Dollars | 03/11/24 |
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It’s Better to Burn Out Than to Fade Away | 03/06/24 |
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Music and Me The Cost of Love Then and Now | 03/01/24 |
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Do You Hear the People Sing... Who Will Not Be Slaves Again! | 12/22/23 |
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The War of Northern Aggression Isn’t Over Yet | 04/14/21 |
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What Makes Me Tick and Teach? No Pain, No Gain | 03/01/21 |
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Stopping in the WoodsWhile Dreaming Dreams | 01/27/21 |
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Your Meaning of Being…What Is It? | 12/14/20 |
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Emails Past and PresentA Reflection Upon Our World | 11/09/20 |
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The Importance of the Sound of Music…According to Nietzsche and Me | 10/26/20 |
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Hear Ye, Hear Ye…Ti Ti Is Starting College Today! | 10/16/20 |
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The Devil Made Me Do It. A Presidential Duet | 10/09/20 |
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There Is More to Dreaming…Than Just Dreaming | 08/07/20 |
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The Morphing Together of a Salt Lamp, Nero, and Cat StevensAn Insight for the Present Day | 06/29/20 |
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Living in Two Worlds…Part 2The Utopian Time | 06/17/20 |
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Living in Two WorldsPart 1 | 06/15/20 |
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Ti Ti’s Spin on My WeltanschauungAnd Mine on Hers | 06/01/20 |
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Living in the New NormalOur New World Order | 05/29/20 |
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The Brighter Side of LifeSomewhat Brighter | 04/10/20 |
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Understanding Life as We Live ItSonata Pathétique | 04/03/20 |
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Circle of LifeDance On | 03/06/20 |
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The Republican TrinitySessions, Bolton, and Roberts | 01/31/20 |
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The Teak BridgePart 2 of a 4 Parts Series | 01/29/20 |
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Thoughts About Willie Nelson’s Song…. On the Road Again | 08/14/19 |
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Starry, Starry Night…. What Do You See? | 08/12/19 |
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Lili Marleen A Musical Journey to Reality | 07/26/19 |
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I Did It My Way An Important Mentor | 07/08/19 |
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Leo Tolstoy What He Learned About Communication | 07/01/19 |
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Music as a Unifying Force Also for Oneself | 06/28/19 |
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More Music More Defining | 06/19/19 |
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Pick Your Mentors But Be Careful About Who and Why | 06/14/19 |
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A Whiter Shade of Pale What’s It All About? | 06/12/19 |
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Another Déjà Vu In the Arts and Philosophy | 06/07/19 |
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Nietzsche Apparently Read Thoreau But I Have Read Much of Both | 05/17/19 |
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Nietzsche, Pathétique, and No Pain, No Gain Part Two of One-Liners | 05/15/19 |
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Nietzsche Wanted Two Things in Life: Music and a Dancing God | 05/13/19 |
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Purpose of Our Being What’s It All About, Alfie | 05/10/19 |
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Pathétique A Way to Live Life | 05/03/19 |
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Several Things That I Need in Life And That’s When I Need You | 04/24/19 |
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Hanging My Problem on My Lantern Jacob Soboroff | 04/15/19 |
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Hanging My Problem on My Lantern Contacting Clarence Page | 04/12/19 |
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Hanging My Problem on My Lantern Contacting Rod Stewart | 04/10/19 |
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Lord of the Dance From Three Perspectives | 04/05/19 |
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Three Songs Morphed Together Creating Meaning in Life | 03/22/19 |
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Dreaming…. About My Moment in Time | 03/11/19 |
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One Moment in Time Carpe Diem | 03/04/19 |
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Looking at Life From Both Sides Now | 1/7/19 |
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A New Year’s Eve With a New Resolution for the Coming Year | 12/31/18 |
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Captain Ahab and His Incarnation In Donald the Dumb | 12/10/18 |
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Way Back Home… In America and Myanmar | 11/28/18 |
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Helping Donald Dumb… And the Rest of Us | 11/19/18 |
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"Look at Me I Am Old but I’m Happy" | 11/14/18 |
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Dreaming The Drug for Realizing Your Hopes | 11/07/18 |
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Serendipitous Moments in My Life And They Are Haunting Me | 10/31/18 |
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Rhythm of My Heart Here and Abroad | 10/03/18 |
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Being a Young Turk… During the 20th Century | 09/26/18 |
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Stumbling into the Truth… Related to Forever Young | 09/07/18 |
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Remembering a Brief Moment in Camelot Which Was Lost in Time | 08/27/18 |
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Be a Dreamer.... And Never Quit Dreaming. | 08/10/18 |
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Trump Asked, “Am I a F--king Baby…?” Answer: Yes! | 07/25/18 |
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Snow, the Virtuoso Träumerei and The Great Gate of Kiev | 08/06/18 |
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America As Bobby, Moh Moh, and the Jazz Singer See It | 12/25/17 |
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Blue Eyes Cryin’ in the Rain While Plowing | 12/08/17 |
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The Haunting of the Edmund Fitzgerald Doomed Before Setting Sail | 11/17/17 |
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The Reason Behind... Everything | 11/08/17 |
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Lambs Eat Ivy And Ginger Eats Lamb Ears | 02/06/17 |
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FLASH!!! We Have More Time This Year. | 12/30/16 |
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Walking in the Snow with Wenceslas Is More Than Merely a Carol | 12/26/16 |
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The Fool on the Hill 50 Years Ago and Now | 12/14/16 |
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A Quest... To Find a Heart of Gold | 11/30/16 |
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Roll Me Up I Am Free to be Me at 73 | 11/18/16 |
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On the Road Again... Like a Gypsy | 11/07/16 |
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Teach Your Children... To Dream | 10/28/16 |
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Himmler and His Quest for the Holy Grail Remember the Past | 10/05/16 |
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The Queen's Haunting... Bohemian Rhapsody | 07/27/16 |
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"I Come in a World of Iron... To Make a World of Gold." | 06/27/16 |
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Morphing of the Flu with Polio A Strange Juxtaposition | 04/29/16 |
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Rewriting History To Fit Our Notions | 04/22/16 |
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Ravel's Bolero Was Repeating Itself | 04/20/16 |
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Maude Adams Found Somewhere in Time | 04/13/16 |
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In My Life I'll Never Lose Affection for People and Things | 04/11/16 |
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Could I Have This Dance... For the Rest of My Life? | 03/11/16 |
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Alex Failed... But Danced On. | 03/09/16 |
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My Casablanca Party Morphed Into My La Mancha Party | 02/29/16 |
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The Value of Dreaming About My List of Dulcineas | 02/12/16 |
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Somewhere in Time The Importance of Memories | 02/04/16 |
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Dreams will come to you.... If You Are True to Your Quest | 01/22/16 |
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Pathétique Moving Music | 12/16/15 |
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Träumerei The Dreaming of Schumann and Me | 12/02/15 |
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Take Your Passion and Make It Happen Flashdance Follow-up | 11/27/15 |
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What a Feeling And It Is a Great Feeling | 11/20/15 |
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Calla's Desk From a Famous Dancer | 11/18/15 |
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Don Quixote Then and Now | 11/04/15 |
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Songs Can Make the World Go Around... Peacefully. | 09/11/15 |
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What a Wonderful World You Think to Yourself.... | 06/15/15 |
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Ode to Joy In the Midst of Pain | 03/27/15 |
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Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream The Disconnect Between Dreaming and Reality | 12/26/14 |
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Putin A Czar on a Fool's Errand | 11/28/14 |
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Joe Hill Died November 19, 1915 "I Never Died," Says He. | 11/19/14 |
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Wolverton Mountain The Place Where Dreams Occur | 09/26/14 |
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Don McLean Teaching: Teach by Example | 03/30/14 |
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Protest Movements in Myanmar and the US... We Shall Overcome! | 01/30/14 |
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Looking Back and Forward... While Singing "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" | 04/12/13 |
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Lean on Me An Open Letter to My Grandson | 11/11/11 |