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Month: April 2018

(vid) Renaissance – Live in London 1977 — Carpet Of The Sun • Mother Russia • Can You Hear Me • Ocean Gypsy • Running Hard • Touching Once • Prologue

I was greatly impressed with Renaissance while in high school, and was able to see them at the Minnesota State Fair playing in a small pavilion to only about 25 people. I couldn’t believe my eyes, standing right in front of one of the greatest bands and most people just kept walking down the path without coming inside — for free.

Jon Camp is still my favorite bass player — having such a soaring, majestic style — a one-of-a-kind! Some compare him to Chris Squire of ‘YES,’ but Jon has always moved me more.

Annie Haslam has a 5-octave voice, and still sings incredibly at age-70: (music video) Renaissance – ‘Carpet of the Sun’ with Chamber Orchestra

Renaissance’s style was elegance, standing tall like the Redwoods; though, some of the lyrics were a bit dark, and were written by another lady, who seemed to be occult influenced. This concert has a great, upbeat feel, unlike some of their studio LP albums, like “Turn of the Cards,” which I still remember buying at the record store at 66th St. and Penn Ave. in Richfield, MN, while living in nearby Bloomington.

I must have heard them on KQRS, the progressive rock FM station that I was often glued to. They never played the same song in a 24 hour period, and had real DJs playing real vinyl LP records, sometimes entire albums. What a treat!

I’ve always been impressed with their song, “Mother Russia,” but didn’t know until hearing Jon Camp’s intro here that it’s about Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the imprisoned truther, author.

Uplifting concert here!

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(music video) Renaissance – ‘Carpet of the Sun’ with Chamber Orchestra

Annie Haslam demonstrates how agile her 5-octave voice still is at age-70!

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Forgiveness in the Moment

Mark 11:25-26
“And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins.”

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(vid) The Tao of Caine: Producing “Kung Fu” — My favorite TV series — no hate!

I love this show! It affected my life deeply during my high school years. I’m really disappointed that TalmudVision doesn’t ever seem to replay it. People deserve the chance to see this no-hate series, which I’m highlighting here by posting many short clips.

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“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in”

“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”

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New Ulm woman become supercentarian, feeling great at age-110

My mother is from New Ulm, and asked me to post this landmark story. Mom attended DMLC a few years before Erna’s husband was head of the music department.

(vid) AIR – A stunning photo series | Vincent Laforet | TEDxSanFrancisco

(vid) Trey Ratcliff: Ignore the Haters – Spend time being awesome instead of worrying — “If you ever get any kind of hate, just fight back with ‘awesome'”

“If you ever get any kind of hate, just fight back with ‘awesome.'”

– Trey Ratcliffe

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