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WarrenS's Profile
Warren Senders is a musician/educator with decades of involvement in Indian, Western, African and African-American musics. He teaches at New England Conservatory of Music and Babson College and is a member of Boston's Jazz Composers' Alliance.
Real Name: Warren Senders
Groups: DK GreenRoots, Climate Hawks, Atheist in America, Massachusetts Kosmopolitans, An Ear for Music, DAILY KOS UNIVERSITY, Living Simply, Warming Wednesdays, Daily Kos Phazebook Progressive Social Networking Group, Education Alternatives, Moving Planet, The Durban Daily, RoadtoRio, Freaky Friday Backstage Pass, New England Kossacks, Bending the Buzz, Climate Change SOS, Boston Kossacks, Kitchen Table Kibitzing, UN Climate Summit, Climate Action Hub, Acoustic TradMusic, Climate Change Anxiety Support Group, Blogathon
Diaries published: 187 (123 days since last diary on Thu Sep 26, 2019 at 07:30 AM PDT)
Comments posted: 8679 (0 days since last comment on Sun Jan 26, 2020 at 07:49 PM PST)
Diary frequency: often
Comment frequency: frequent
Total Recommends: 8003
Total Comment Ratings: 31186
Most Recommended Diary: Professor Obama's Classroom Management Skills, 498 comments, 1007 recommends
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Good morning. Welcome to an extended analogy. Her number rings and rings and rings and rings. I call the switchboard, punch my way through the circuitry, get to the main desk in her ward, ask ...
by WarrenS
 53 comments
on Thu Sep 26, 2019 at 07:30 AM PDT
with 140 Recommends
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This morning during my daily music practice/climate-change vigil, I was working on a song. It’s a pretty song, but it’s kind of “square.” I tried some of the standard ways of ornamenting it, and as I did so, I realized that merely adding a couple of...
by WarrenS
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on Thu Mar 14, 2019 at 07:31 AM PDT
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I’ve posted this diary several times over the past decade, and with the Kennedy resignation (and the subsequent inevitable decimation of abortion rights in this country) filling the news, I think it’s time for another go-round. So here goes.
I’ve...
by WarrenS
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on Thu Jun 28, 2018 at 09:28 AM PDT
with 65 Recommends
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I spent my morning in court today.
In August 2016 I joined an ongoing campaign against a natural gas pipeline construction project in West Roxbury, MA, and committed civil disobedience by illegally entering the site along with several other...
by WarrenS
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on Tue Mar 27, 2018 at 05:31 PM PDT
with 31 Recommends
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Daniel Quinn, best known as the author of Ishmael, The Story of B, My Ishmael, and Providence, died of aspiration pneumonia on February 17, 2018 at Houston Hospice. He was 82.
Houston Chronicle
He had been in hospice care for the past couple of...
by WarrenS
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on Sun Mar 18, 2018 at 10:21 AM PDT
with 16 Recommends
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Note: this is drawn from the daily journal of my roadside vigil, an hour every weekday morning at a heavily-trafficked intersection with an assortment of signs about climate change. This post can be read in its entirety (musical excerpts and all) at...
by WarrenS
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on Fri Nov 17, 2017 at 09:27 AM PST
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- Last weekend I arrived at Southlands movie theatre a little after 12:00 pm. It did not take very long for me to find Sabrina, my best friend of ten years. Her long, wavy red hair was cascading over the back of the red chair and her skin was cream...12 comments 40 Recs
- In an 83-minute video published by PBS Newshour on Saturday, Donald Trump appears to chat with Lev Parnas—a man Trump has repeatedly insisted he does not know—and then immediately demand that then-Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch be fired. About...184 comments 192 Recs
- Mississippian KT Robbins was a 24 year-old young man when he deployed to Europe in mid-1944. He was there for the allied invasion….D Day….. and France was in the process of being liberated from Nazi subjugation. He was in a company of bakers for the...105 comments 229 Recs
- I’m pretty sure the meltdown that SoS Mike Pompeo had tonight after NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly publicly handed him his right testicle in an egg cup (which, by itself will go down in the Annals of Journalistic Greatness alongside Ed Murrow’s gelding of Joe...20 comments 19 Recs
- I’m a liberal and Bernie Sanders is a Democratic Socialist. Both of us have our roots in good old FDR blue collar pragmatism. I thought, way back in 2011, when I wrote glowingly about him, that if he ever decided to run for president I would be first...931 comments 245 Recs
- I’ve posted prices (unbelievably great deals) along with pictures of the beautiful jewelry. You can order by contacting the artist, asterkitty paintedjay@gmail.com. Shipping is $5. More ordering details here. These are all one of a kinds, no mass...60 comments 46 Recs
- Though temperatures have cooled somewhat in Australia, providing much-needed relief for the overworked and exhausted firefighters, provides some critical time to strengthen containment lines the firestorms have not stopped. They are predicted to...70 comments 139 Recs
- “The anger is real. The anger is justified. Because this disaster was all foreseen and predicted. For decades the link between a hotter, drier climate, land-clearing, excessive irrigation and increased fire risk have all been attested in scientific...148 comments 208 Recs
- The annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union began on December 9 in San Francisco. There should be a lot of updated information on climate change released to the public in the coming weeks. Two items discussed was permafrost and glaciers,...52 comments 187 Recs
- "Friends. Shit is getting well-serious. I am at my place at the very top of the Bellinger Valley. Smoke has completely saturated everything for days now. "Most of this evening I have heard the wind absolutely roaring on the escarpment above. These...80 comments 268 Recs
