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The Birthday Evocation Born in a Memorial Service
It’s Ed’s birthday today. Happy Birthday, Love. And as is tradition now in our relationship, I will gift Ed another viola/piano duet I compose for the occasion, each one called “Evocation”. This year my husband will receive Evocation … Continue reading
Posted in Beginnings, Chamber Works
Tagged 15th Street, Alzheimers, chamber music, chamber piece, duet, Evocation, Evocation XXIV, Friends of Friend, KenKen, Meeting House, memorial, New York Times, piano, Quaker, service, Vince Buscemi, Viola
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The Passing of The Oriole’s Song
The Last Question I do not remember what my father said when we last spoke. But my mother remembers … Continue reading
Posted in Beginnings, Literary Lyricism
Tagged 1930, BJ Elder, bombing raid, china, Dave Elder, EastBridge, girlhood, Hunan, Kendal, Meeting, memoir, memorial, poetry, Quaker, The Oriole's Song, wartime, World War 2, Yuan River, Yuanling
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MARCHING WITH THE QUAKERS – A NYC Pride Parade Photo Diary
Sunday, June 26, was Pride Day in New York City. Close to 2 million people watched hundreds of thousands of marchers within about 485 contingents (groups and floats) make their way down 5th avenue, 8th Street and Christopher street, from … Continue reading
Posted in LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Notes in the News
Tagged 5th Avenue, Charles Busch, Christopher Street, Empire State Building, Episcopal Priest, Flatiron, k d lang, king, LGBT, Love and Pride, memorial, National Monument, NYC, Photo Diary, Pride, Pridetrooper, Quaker, Religious Society of Friends, Stonewall, U2, When Pigs Fly
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HAPPY PRIDE DAY – One Year to the Day Our Day Had Come
Happy Pride Day, everybody. Today is the Last Sunday in June, when New York City commemorates the birth of the modern Gay Rights Movement and the 1969 Stonewall riots with our Pride Parade and Festivities. Ed and I will be … Continue reading
OUR DAY HAS COME – a personal marriage story with musical accompaniment
Ed and I got married in 1998. And again in 2011. Then our marriage got federally augmented in 2013. And now finally in 2015 the state of our union will be fully recognized in every state of the Union. It’s … Continue reading
