Category: music

• Poet from the north country

  No quote necessary… ~~Patrick Egan [Photo credit: Google search.] This morning I was reading an article in The Guardian about Amazon Echo (Alexa). It was written by a journalist from the UK. I learned how much that is spoken by me and Mariam is stored in a server…somewhere. The writer told of how he now…

  patrickjegan

  May 24, 2025

  Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan Lyrics, Melancholy Thoughts, music

  #AmazonEcho, #blowinginthewind, #bobdylanbirthday2025, #bobdylanimportance

• Below the equator vII: at the acam bistro mariam dances the tango

  [The musicians at the Acam Bistro. The piano and the Bandoneon. Both gentlemen can sing, dance and play each other’s instruments. Photo is mine] ** I love tango, and I used to dance when I was young. ~~Pope Francis I’m a bad walker but I can dance the tango. ~~Melody Gardot ** It was a…

  patrickjegan

  January 21, 2025

  #argentina, Buenos Airies, music, non-fiction, Real Personal History, The Equator, The Tango, Travel Writing, Travels

  #argentina, #dancingthetango, #milongainbuenosaires, #myamazingwife, #sundayafternoonsinbuenosaires, #tangobuenosaires, buenos-aires, south-america, tango, Travel

• I Ride A Camel Through The Dunes And Ponder The Shape Of Things

  Midnight at the oasis Sing your camel to bed… ~~ Maria Muldaur Midnight at the Oasis I did it. We did it. We were shown our camels, and without any instruction at all, we road off into the dunes. Our destination was our Dune Camp. I volunteered to be first to mount the dromedary assigned…

  patrickjegan

  September 22, 2024

  Deserts, music, Nature, non-fiction, Objects of Beauty, seniors, Travel Writing, Travels

  #camelridesinthesaharadesert, #campinginthedunesofmorocco, #dromadariesofthesahara, #themoroccandesert

• Dark Odds Indeed

  [The Nobel Laureate. Robert Zimmerman, aka Bob Dylan. Source: Google Search.] Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. ~~Henry David Thoreau Bob Dylan, American singer and songwriter, will be eighty-three years old on May 24. As I write this I realize that that’s old. True, not old to many people who are…

  patrickjegan

  May 24, 2024

  Blogging, Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan Lyrics, Childhood, daughter, Holding onto the Past, In Search of Lost Time, Love, Melancholy Thoughts, Memories, music, non-fiction, son, Time

  #agingrockstars, #bobdylanlyrics, #bobdylansbirthday, #rockstars

• The Last Quarter Moon Gives A Pale Wintry Light/Late Night Thoughts Following Spinal Surgery

  {Author’s Note: This blog post contains a photograph of an x-ray of my lower back taken six days after my spinal fusion. If the image of hardware screwing together two of my vertebra is irksome to you, my gentle readers, then feel free to search for another fine read. I have 645 in the bank.…

  patrickjegan

  February 16, 2024

  Blogging, death, Holding onto the Past, In Search of Lost Time, Medical Center, medicine, Melancholy Thoughts, Memories, music, New York City, owego ny, Premonitions, Real Personal History, seniors, Time, winter

  #lumbarsurgery, #melancholoythoughtsatnight, #nancigriffth, #newyorkcitylatenightthoughts, #painandinsomnia, #patioatnight, #postsurgerypain, #sarahjaroaz, #waltwhitman, life, love, poetry, short-story, sleep

• Better Late Than Never: A Fairy Tale of New York

  Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. ~~Edward Bulwer Lytton I love music. The older I get, the more varied my tastes have become. Spotify is my second home. But, I have a problem. Many times I have forged new trails in the snowy slopes of the Juneau…

  patrickjegan

  January 1, 2024

  art, Bob Dylan, Creativity, Memories, music, New York City, non-fiction, Real Personal History

  #agreatchristmassong, #discoveringmusic, #indiemusic, #irishchristmasmusic, #knowledgeablesoninlaws, #shanemacgowan, #thepogues