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PowerCorrupts's avatar

I want to hire you as my editor? I'll email your sjs[AT]susannajsturgis.com but I mite be in SPAM?

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Susanna J. Sturgis's avatar

I'll keep an eye out!

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Deb Vitkova's avatar

Beautiful essay, beautiful photo

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samani's avatar

Totally agree. A beauty, Susanna J Sturgis.

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Susanna J. Sturgis's avatar

My phone camera doesn't see exactly what I see, but what it does see is pretty cool. Thank you.

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Yehawes (VA)'s avatar

Susanna, seeing your comment over on TCinLA made me remember I wanted to share this one with you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5WdvB3rVPc . I put it up over there too but no telling if you'll see it. P.S. You hopping right in there on HCR's behalf made me smile... I figured that's the firecracker in you, too...

Also, I always try to look up the music you mention here, and the Libana songs are lovely. Many of their songs are. I find I prefer the Guthrie version of that song over the more chipper one.

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Susanna J. Sturgis's avatar

I do too -- Peter, Paul & Mary did great work, but that's not my favorite cover of the song. That was also a fairly early cover (1965, I think). Arlo's came a few years later. My favorite might be by Cindy Kallet, Ellen Epstein, and Michael Cicone, a trio that was active in New England for decades, but their version hasn't made it on to YouTube.

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Yehawes (VA)'s avatar

My first reaction was "aw, that's too bad" along with a genuine, if mild, feeling of being deprived of something I ought to have access to - before I realized how spoiled I and others have become by our easy access to just about any information or art we have a whim to experience. I'll go sit in a corner while I grow up a little bit again (not going to pretend it's sure to last this time either though!) ; )

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Yehawes (VA)'s avatar

Is that your photo? It's pretty amazing. Soft and smudgy with only the electrical brilliance sharply focused, and a confusion between that which is form and that which is hollowness.

The words spoken to confuse certainly aren't understood when they are spoken - I don't really like watching 45 except that I sometimes amuse myself watching the faces of those behind him in search of any indication they hear the nonsense. Clearly, for most of the chosen "back drop people" it's about preening, holding up their signs and being part of the show, but laughing, cheering and jeering in places requires some level of attention, right? I know I'm a hard case, but I am looking for little signs of recognition and rarely, rarely find any. The words spoken to confuse aren't understood but just layer up over them forming a shell.

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Susanna J. Sturgis's avatar

My photo, or my Galaxy S23's photo. <g> This is what it does when I zoom in on subjects that are very far away, like the moon. The camera has "pro" settings where you can adjust the settings like on a real camera, but they're pretty useless when I'm out in the pitch-dark without my glasses and I'm holding my malamute's leash in one hand.

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Yehawes (VA)'s avatar

Ah, so we must credit the malamute with at least some of the artistic effects - possibly some of the softness and cream.

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Susanna J. Sturgis's avatar

He definitely deserves some credit. He also thinks I should devote a post to him in the very near future. Among other things, he is very photogenic.

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Donald Sinclair Richardson's avatar

Perfect.

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