Dave’s Recent Musings
The United States of Nostalgia
Growing up in the 50s and early 60s, I was heavily influenced by a steady diet of leftover B&W John Wayne propaganda movies depicting our victory in WWII– like Flying Tigers, Back to Bataan and Sands of Iwo Jima. Early TV also played its part. The series Victory at Sea, with its stirring musical score…
Well, Pop, Whadaya Think?
People who regularly read in this space (all three of you) may remember the times I’ve mentioned my penchant for active listening to music in the company of Mozart. Of course, he’s only there in my imagination, and only then to provide a “second set of ears” to put what I’m hearing in a different…
Eight-O
While I probably didn’t deserve to live this long, I was still hoping to have a generally happy, if slightly guilt-edged dotage. But while recently celebrating my 80th birthday I suddenly realized that the bulk of my post-2014 retirement years have been spoiled, mostly by one person, a captain of a ship of fools. Wind back…
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