{"id":573895882,"date":"2023-06-19T21:50:04","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T01:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573895882"},"modified":"2023-07-06T01:47:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T05:47:41","slug":"photos-cycling-music-cats-a-monday-clearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2023\/06\/19\/photos-cycling-music-cats-a-monday-clearance\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos, cycling, music, cats: a Monday clearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel like I should be doing something. Can&#8217;t quite put my finger on it. Ah, well, you know how it is in the summertime. Things come along when they come along. Ideas too! And sometimes activity, as well. I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;ll come to me, or catch up to me, at some point. <\/p>\n<p>I had to go into the office for a few minutes on Saturday. The tree outside my window looked pretty nice that afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/june23\/june19.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve had some pretty nice light lately, which is a thing you find yourself saying from time to time in these parts, even in the sunny part of the year. These are the woods behind our house, this evening.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/june23\/june20.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>That photo is timestamped 9 p.m., which is a magical thing, to be sure. Look how much light there still is in the sky! We&#8217;re just now approaching sunset. For my money, the late hours of daytime in the summer is the best part about this place.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the cats. We didn&#8217;t check in with them last week, and site traffic no doubt suffered, as the weekly updates on the kitties are the site&#8217;s most popular feature. Just ask Poseidon who, I am sure, will tell you all about it. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/june23\/june21.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Recently, we paused a bike race we were watching so we could watch a car chase. Which is to say, we paused a bike race so Poe could watch a car chase. He was invested.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/june23\/june22.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>He knew this particular chase wasn&#8217;t going to last much longer. There&#8217;s no tire on the front of that car. At the conclusion, he was trying to give the driver a few helpful tips. Get out of the car, lay down and listen to the officers&#8217; instructions.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/june23\/june23.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Poseidon would not be a good wheelman, I think. <\/p>\n<p>For her part, Phoebe did not watch the car chase. I think she knew the inevitable outcome, or was embarrassed that her brother would assume the position.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/june23\/june24.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Phoebe, I think, might be the better driver of a getaway car of the two. Whereas Poe would be like, &#8220;Hey, what&#8217;s up? Is this fun? This looks fun. Can this be fun?&#8221; Phoebe is always looking for a way to get out of any room, juuuust in case.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/june23\/june25.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Smart girl, that one.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/blog\/banners\/bannerbloomingtonbike.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I had a brisk 34-mile ride on Saturday. I set no Strava PRs, and so that part was disappointing. But I did chase this guy down from a long way back, so there&#8217;s that.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uytyDxfqz0M\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He was a bit surprised when he looked over his shoulder and saw me. Maybe it was the huffing and\/or the puffing.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/blog\/banners\/bannerindigogirls.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Since we saw The Indigo Girls at The Ryman last weekend I&#8217;ve been doling out a few songs. That&#8217;s going to continue on for a while, because this was a great concert. This is the first track from their eighth studio album, 2002&#8217;s &#8220;Become You,&#8221; it sets the tone for the record, and it holds up like all of the best of their catalog. &#8220;Moment of Forgiveness&#8221; has a great set of lyrics, a wonderful refrain and a keyboard sound that doesn&#8217;t really come across here, but the spirit of the song, and more of Amy Ray&#8217;s spirit, does.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YLYC0ohVIjw\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of the spirit of music &#8230; <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/blog\/banners\/bannermusic.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>More music! The Re-Listening project, to be specific. I&#8217;m playing all of my old CDs in the car, in the order I acquired the CDs. And right now we&#8217;re in 1999, listening to a double-live CD which was released in 1997, from a series of concerts in 1996. <\/p>\n<p>Everybody got that?<\/p>\n<p>This is Lilith Fair, which I didn&#8217;t see live, the timing and location never worked out, but I&#8217;m certain that, if I had, I would have been duly impressed. <\/p>\n<p>The first track is from Paula Cole, who I did see at a different festival about that time. She had a cold, she said. She was afraid her voice would crack. She stole the the show. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sWZOoQreRR4\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s this cool song from Autour de Lucie, a French pop band I&#8217;d never heard of. Quite captivating, really. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GwdnqiluSfQ\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Lilith Fair, of course, was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/07\/05\/1108635464\/25-years-on-lilith-fair-is-a-reminder-of-how-one-womans-radical-idea-changed-mus\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah McLachlan-inspired project.<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In its first summer, Lilith easily outpaced the then-fading Lollapolooza festival, in both audience size and ticket sales. It returned for two more summers and went on to become the top-grossing music festival of the late 1990s, racking up $60 million in ticket sales over its three-year run.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Indigo Girls, Joan Osborne and and Victoria Williams were among the other headliners. Then there was the incomparable Tracy Chapman, Fiona Apple and Natalie Merchant. It&#8217;s an amazing, embarrassing catalog of star power. The stage was full of huge and important musical acts, like Suzanne Vega. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nYHLMcX52HA\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m betting the Songbird herself often stole the show. How could she not?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XhwlOSCLTSs\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For my money, the best song on the double CD is this rendition of &#8220;Water is Wide&#8221; by the Indigo Girls, Jewel and Sara McLachlan. I listen to this over and over, just for the goosebumps.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d32rALuwRtQ\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Both Shall Row.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel like I should be doing something. Can&#8217;t quite put my finger on it. Ah, well, you know how it is in the summertime. Things come along when they come along. Ideas too! And sometimes activity, as well. I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;ll come to me, or catch up to me, at some point. 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