March 2022: Little Big Hopes
post originally published march 24, 2022
The band performs to a full house in Berkeley (11/21/21).
What gives me hope:
The little purple flower that grew in our gravel walkway last week.
So many of the smartest kindest people I know working around the clock to slow down the effects of climate change.
Natalie explaining to her six-year-old piano student what "choreographer" means, and the boy choreographing a dance number over zoom.
Getting to open for Willy Porter at the legendary Alberta Rose Theatre in Portland tomorrow!
The chapter in "Braiding Sweetgrass" about the different sounds of rain.
The scoreboard on the Barcelona soccer game reading: "Stop Invasion."
How fluidly high schoolers are able to use gender neutral pronouns.
A particularly good bag of Juanitas chips.
Observing how the process of writing a song took one woman from work-related tears of despair to feeling connection with others in the workshop, connecting to her own creativity, and ultimately, hope
Target, Walmart, and Apple leading the way in corporations using the most solar.
Coffee.
Wishing you all the best,
Jenner
My new e-cargo-bike from Xtracycle! Avoiding the gas pump.
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Mr. Rogers' appeal to congress video. Reminding us that the world and politicians could work this way again.
“I think the more the listener can contribute to the song, the better; the more they become part of the song, and they fill in the blanks. Rather than tell them everything, you save your details for things that exist. Like what color the ashtray is. How far away the doorway was. So when you’re talking about intangible things, like emotions, the listener can fill in the blanks and you just draw the foundation. I still tend to believe that’s the way to tackle it today." – John Prine