(Note: From time to time, we post the posts of others verbatim as they seem perfect just the way they are. We have reposted Ohio composer and educator Rick Sowash’s weekly newsletter which includes a musical piece written by Rick. His post on Sunday 7/26/20, the fourth month of the pandemic when stautues and monuments […]
Translinear Light (2004) Alice Coltrane Review by John Fraim Where is John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane and McCoy Tyner when the world needs them so much? Trane left us in 1967 and Alice Coltrane forty years later in 2007. McCoy left us on March 6, 2020 … just before the pandemic struck the nation. It would […]
1778 Continental Congress & The Qui Tam Law The Whistleblower & Qui Tam Blog (WQTB) https://kkc.com/blog/ Mary Jane Wilmoth, Editor The Whistleblower & Qui Tam Blog (WQTB) ia a blog of the law firm for whistleblowers Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto (KK&C). It provides the most up-to-date and behind the scenes insight into the […]
“There’s something in the sky!” The summer of the pandemic has seen the release of a number of spectacular low budget, indie horror films. Perhaps the best of these is The Vast of Night created by a television commercial producer living in Oklahoma, Andrew Patterson. The film is another example of the benefits of persistence by […]
Perfumes, sounds and colors. I wanted to briefly catch readers and subscribers up on my latest activities. I’ve been spending less time on blogging articles to Midnight Oil and more time on a larger, project called the FreeNation Directory. The directory is complete for now but there are other names and groups that could be added to it. […]
John Fraim I’ve had the good fortune to live in towns near great parks. I’ve certainly taken advantage of this over the years. My first home in San Francisco was right on Mountain Lake Park, one of the first places the Spanish explorers visited in the Bay Area. When I lived in Berkeley, there was […]
John Fraim One of the best-selling books of all time is a self-help book called How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. Published in 1936 in the middle of the Great Depression, it did not start-off as a book but rather a series of lectures that Carnegie was giving in New York […]
(Diorama and photo by John Fraim) John Fraim I think that in time, there will develop an entire genre or art-form related to our post-pandemic world. Perhaps even approaching the BC and AD designations of the arrival of Christ. The great change will create the condition for the demand of a new word to define […]
In these difficult times, small acts can make a big difference. Everyday at 1pm Heather Jean Jordan rings the bells of St. George In The Pines as a symbol of hope and community for the town of Banff. Here is “Amazing Grace” performed by Heather Jean Jordan. The town of Banff, Alberta
Sometimes you race on in life without ever looking back. Sometimes you do it all the time and sometimes only occasionally. And then, perhaps hardly ever. Something from the past comes back into present life. This was the case with a few projects of mine from the past. I had never given up on them […]
