In honor of all our weary summertime travelers and wanderers ... welcome home!
Welcome to the DFH Freaky Friday weekly music series
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Sometimes it's just the whisper of an old song lyric that blows through your mind like a faint breeze, bringing backs scents or faces or memories of another era. Tonight I've got some songs about 'home' that are like home to me, wherever I happen to land.
The summer had inhaled
And held its breath too long.
The winter looked the same,
As if it had never gone,
And through an open window,
Where no curtain hung,
I saw you, I saw you,
Coming back to me.
lyrics: Comin' Back to Me, JA
Summer is slogging away... For those of us who are lucky enough to have had some time off, we're coming up fast on August, which always brings its own challenges. Down here in Texas, we just try to endure it. Moms and Dads and kids will soon get into the back to school mode and then, well there's some big deals going on in September and November, or so I hear.
Whether you're one of the lucky ones who was able to take off on a summer adventure road trip or a {gasp} vacation {what's that?} or maybe you're just easing into the mid-season doldrums & heat, tonight's Freaky Friday is just a cool and breezy one for ya. Mostly.
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I Wanna Go Home (Sloop John B), Van Morrison,
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Homeward Bound, Paul Simon with Willie Nelson
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Miles From Nowhere, Cat Stevens
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Our House, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
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California, Joni Mitchell
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When The Ship Comes In, Bob Dylan
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In closing... I just have to say how much I appreciate that I even have a home to miss... (or not miss, as the case may be, homebody that I am!) Not everyone is so fortunate.
This little short video tells of a 2008 art exhibit "Understanding Poverty" by photojournalist, artist, & humanist Ben deSoto & writer Ann Sieber. Ben was a long ti me staff photographer at the Houston Chronicle for some 25 years and he's been involved locally with advocacy on issues of homelessness and poverty for, well, at least that long. Very cool guy and great photographer, he talks about his work here in this well-worth-a-look 3 minute video. Read more here.
aaaaand ... Coming up in August, fyi:
FOOD NOT BOMBS WORLD GATHERING
August 20th-26th, 2012 - Tampa Florida USA
It's Freaky Friday! Bring some tunes, whatever you got! Feel free to comment with just a song-link and your thoughts, or try for the embed, for however long that works for us. Either way, we're just chillin' here, so c'mon and join in.
Here's HOW: To add vids in comments: Click on "share"; then the "embed" button; change the size of the video graphic too, so when it posts, it is smaller. Use 300pixels in the custom parameters (last one on the right) under the embed code. {h/t joanneleon}
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