I have a cassette tape of her singing songs for children. I'm going to look for it today while I make my peace with her passing. I share a birthday with her.
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Swatching it!
Well, well, well...look who is swatching! The plan (here goes...) is to knit my grand daughter a sweater. This will be my first knitted ...
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echo and wondered where the sound was coming from? That would have been me followed by gasping, then more screaming, with my hand spread ov...
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Most of my handiness goes into the making of art that when it comes time to get it properly photographed, hung, and even submitted to exhibi...
There you are. I begin to feel old as my contemporaries leave us. Sigh — there is a season.
ReplyDeleteI heard that news this morning from NPR while driving to work. They
ReplyDeletereplayed a 2005 interview where she sang a chorus of "Amazing Grace" which was deeply moving.
How can that be possible? Wasn't the march in Washington just a few years ago?
ReplyDeleteSadness. No one comes near to her voice power, grace and beauty
I did not know ... I am sorry for our loss.
ReplyDeleteLove her.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSDeROnTq64
I am ever grateful of the doors and windows you open. I'm intensely in love with the image of the young white man in 50's style glasses staring intently and reverently at Odetta at the Newport festival.
ReplyDeleteLovely. Thanks for these clips. What a loss. May God rest her soul.
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