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The Slave Trade, and a new song

Theme 258

The garden and a new piano exercise.

Theme 256 – Piano Exercise

Piano Suite #1

Three short compositions for you pianists to figure out. Have fun!

I call this “Everywhere I Go.”

Theme 51

Theme 118

South Texas is famous for the roadside flowers that Ladybird Johnson championed, but there are, of course, huge fields that are not planted, but simply flourish and bloom, each in its season (the top two photos). Beautiful stuff. And to go with it, two more pieces, the first a piano bit with a little orchestral backup, and the second an extended variation on a theme by Neil Young’s “If God Loved Me.” At least that’s what it reminds me of.

Theme 74

Well, many years ago, before computers and the internet, I wrote a short story about a man who carried an enormous length of garden hose up a mountain with the goal of starting a siphon to run water from a lake to his cabin below. His only friend, a water attorney (?!?!), warned him that stealing water could get him in a lot of trouble. But, undeterred by this cautionary advice, he proceeded to climb to the lake and start the siphon. Meanwhile, his friend cooked breakfast in the cabin below. By the time the hose was hooked up, his friend had set fire to the kitchen and lost control of his wits. Just when it looked like the cabin would be burned to ashes, the hose began blasting water, and he was able to save the house. This was the first of several short-short stories in a series that I called Mountain Breakfast, in which each tale involved cooking or eating breakfast in the wild. It was all about humans, all about nature, and all about human nature. I’m still at it, still hiking and thinking and writing tales, although they’re longer now, and not about eating breakfast.

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Pop Goes the Weasel

Two Songs from My Heyday

If I Only Had a Song

New Music

The Slave Trade, and a new song

A New, Lovely Piece

The garden and a new piano exercise.

Theme 253, March!

Piano Suite #1

Songs and Flowers