Russian Easter Song

Georgy Sviridov. "Zorya is beaten" (Pushkin's wreath).

Soloists - Alexey Mikhailov, Nikita Zakharin.

This translation was lifted from a Youtube comment and proffered in response to someone's Reddit request for a translation. I equate the dawn with the coming of spring. There are, in other comments, suggestions that Sviridov was describing a bugler or drummer announcing the day (reveille) and the book by Dante falling from a sleeping soldier's hand.

The distant church bell ringing at the dawn, The old Dante book is falling out of my hand, The last words are still on my lips, but reading unfinished, And my soul flying far away, This sound, so familiar and so vividly alive, which I’ve heard so many times, Takes me to my childhood, to the place where I grew up, Long long time ago

Easter

In South to a Very Old Place by Albert Murray, he mentions Papa Holman's "shuffle-stepping" jazz (p.162) band as playing it the way it's supposed to be played.

Checking Youtube, no Mr. Holman, but instead, this exotic duo

which, with their 2nd number, a Howlin' Wolf cover, convey the wonderfully erotic side of Easter's traditional celebration of fecundity. 

I asked Chat for an image of rabbits celebrating the pagan tradition of fecundity and got this:

We’re so sorry, but the image we created may violate our guardrails around nudity, sexuality, or erotic content. If you think we got it wrong, please retry or edit your prompt.

Oh, well. You can hear it in these guy's voices.

        🎉🎊🐇🎊🎉 Happy Easter

Lucy Jones, seismologist

Natalie Angier has a great sense of humor. Part of the enjoyment of this phase of old age is having the time for tangents. So when Natalie mentioned Lucy, I went to see.

Come to find out, from her wiki article here, Lucy plays the viol de gamba and composed this piece based on the increase in the planet's temperature from 1880 to 2017.

It's pretty nice. And we had a very mild winter here in Albert's Turkey.

In Nomine Terra Calens

(In the Name of a Warming Earth)

A 26.March.2026 article about Dr. Jones.

Dr. Hawk & MAID

The liquid morphine has been causing nausea. At my last recertification (for hospice) he'd told the MAID concoction included 15,000 mg of the stuff. If .20 ml - a minuscule amount - induced vomiting, i wondered how i was gonna keep 15,000mg down long enough to expire.

It, the MAID kit, came in this black bag. It would've been nice to have a raven and the word Nevermore on it.  Dr. Hawke said he had directed them to use a blue bag. 

Here's the "kit."

The coded entry releases the steel cable.

Inside is a single bottle containing a blend of morphine, phenobarbitol & something specific to stop the heart, a relatively indefatigable organ.

To obviate any possibility of trouble, we settled on rectal delivery. You'd uh thunk I'd uh gotten details, but Hawk said it's actually his preferred method. The "usual" way is to create a solution and drink it. But everyone says it tastes terrible. 

I'm not planning to use it soon; just like to be prepared.

35th Anniversary

 April 1st.

Spring Hath Thprung

Cat in the sun

Spring hath Sprung

The giant locust tree in the front yard of the neighbors behind us signals the changing seasons. In October it still had a little green (from the kitchen window).

Here it is in its winter form.

Don't u wish u were this cute?

 

Greg's AWESOME Miniatures

 

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