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#Sane_Making #Music
A mind’s ear gift 🖤
#Sondheim & #Streisand
He wrote new lyrics for her recording of this song:

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“What do you leave to your child when you're dead?
Only whatever you put in its head
Things that your mother and father had said
Which were left to them too”
Children Will Listen
YouTube video by BARBRA STREISAND - Topic
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September 21, 2026 at 6:59 PM
gammamadonna.bsky.social
#Sane_Making #Music
#Fauré Pavane Opus 50
I’m the live-in grandma of three, two are low brass student (18 &14). I was an oboist. Granddaughter (9) is a beginning flute student. She’s just home from school, so I played a bit for her. Some of Gamma’s daytime dreams.

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Pavane, Op.50. Gabriel Fauré. Concert 01/06/2024
YouTube video by Alkoda On Air
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September 2, 2026 at 10:10 PM
gammamadonna.bsky.social
Some #Sane_Making #Tuesday #Music
I heard for the first this one for the first time 59 years ago…
🎵🖤🎵
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The Afternoon (Remastered 2006)
YouTube video by The Moody Blues - Topic
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September 1, 2026 at 4:24 PM
gammamadonna.bsky.social
A #sane_making thing 💖

“What I want should not be confused
with total inactivity.

Life is what it is about...
I want no truck with death.”
• Pablo #Neruda

Eva Green reads it:
youtu.be/gkJEOdXWCnw?...

(Full poem in ALT)
“Now we will count to twelve and we will all keep still for once on the face of the earth, let's not speak in any language; let's stop for a second, and not move our arms so much. It would be an exotic moment without rush, without engines; we would all be together in a sudden strangeness. Fishermen in the cold sea would not harm whales and the man gathering salt would not look at his hurt hands. Those who prepare green wars, wars with gas, wars with fire, victories with no survivors, would put on clean clothes and walk about with their brothers in the shade, doing nothing. What I want should not be confused with total inactivity. Life is what it is about... I want no truck with death. If we were not so single-minded about keeping our lives moving, and for once could do nothing, perhaps a huge silence might interrupt this sadness of never understanding ourselves and of threatening ourselves with death. Perhaps the earth can teach us
as when everything seems dead
and later proves to be alive. Now I'll count up to twelve and you keep quiet and I will go.” Keeping Quiet - Pablo Neruda Image: a beautiful sleeping baby holding a teddy bear
August 27, 2026 at 6:40 PM
gammamadonna.bsky.social
#Sane_Making #Music
Dolly, Emmylou & Linda
🕊️🎵🤍🎵🕊️
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August 25, 2026 at 7:21 PM
gammamadonna.bsky.social
#Sane_Making #Music
“With just one hand held up high I can blot you out, out of sight. Peek-a-boo, peek-a-boo, little Earth…”
• Kate Bush
🎵🖤🎵
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“To Mankind, and the hope that the war against folly may someday be won, after all.” • Isaac Asimov “The Gods Themselves” Image of a girl child blowing bubbles, that turn into the planets of our star system, with the words: “peek-a-boo, “peek-a-boo little Earth” underneath the planets
August 25, 2026 at 2:02 AM
gammamadonna.bsky.social
#Sane_Making #Music
Turn it up!
🎵🖤🎵
“Break the silence,
Damn the dark,
Damn the light.”
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Fleetwood Mac - The Chain (Official Music Video) [HD]
YouTube video by Fleetwood Mac
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August 22, 2026 at 6:40 PM
gammamadonna.bsky.social
#Sane_Making #Music
“…you can run out your rules, but you know you can’t outrun the history train…”
🎵🖤🎵
(With one of my most favorite guitar riffs ever)
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Paul Simon - Peace Like a River (Official Audio)
YouTube video by PaulSimonVEVO
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August 19, 2026 at 12:56 AM
gammamadonna.bsky.social
I am healing myself today with the magical spells also known as songs.
#Sane_Making #Music
“I would shelter you
And keep you in light,
But I can only teach you
Night vision…”
🎵🖤🎵
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Night Vision
YouTube video by Suzanne Vega - Topic
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August 17, 2026 at 6:44 PM
gammamadonna.bsky.social
#Sane_Making #Music and #Good_Stuff

I really adore this song,
and…
I love that my three royal grandkids (ages 18, 14 & 9) all call their dad “Dada”.
🎵🖤🖤🖤🎵

Be well, Dear Hearts All. 🫶

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Say It Anyway
YouTube video by Mary Chapin Carpenter - Topic
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August 14, 2026 at 2:15 AM
gammamadonna.bsky.social
#Sane_Making #Music
Jesse Welles & Daniel Donato doing fine things with Bob Dylan’s masterpiece from 1963:
🎵🖤🎵
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Don’t Think Twice It’s Alright
YouTube video by Jesse Welles
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August 11, 2026 at 4:10 PM
gammamadonna.bsky.social
#Sane_Making with my 18 year old low brass grandson — watching the live-streamed 2026 finales of DCI, Drum Corp International.
🎵🖤🎵
A boy and his sousaphone.
August 8, 2026 at 10:25 PM
gammamadonna.bsky.social
#Sane_Making #Music
And I don’t care if it’s used in a blockbuster movie that I will likely choose not to watch. I listened to & loved Steely Dan in 1977.

“The danger on the rocks…”

Let’s talk about Scylla & Charybdis, shall we?
@tubapeter.bsky.social - thought of you. 😉

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Home At Last
YouTube video by Steely Dan - Topic
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August 7, 2026 at 4:29 PM
gammamadonna.bsky.social
#Sane_Making #Music
“They’ll fall hard,
Those rotten stinkin’ liars”

“…all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall.”
• MKGandhi

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Those Stinkin' Liars
YouTube video by Raging Grannies of Tuolumne & Calaveras (RGTC)
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August 7, 2026 at 4:14 PM
gammamadonna.bsky.social
#Sane_Making #music
🎵🖤🎵
Bruce Cockburn
“… One of these days we're going to sail away,
going to sail into eternity
some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me,

And I'm wondering where the lions are ...”
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Bruce Cockburn - Wondering Where The Lions Are (Bing Lounge)
YouTube video by 101.9 KINK.FM
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August 7, 2026 at 2:07 AM
gammamadonna.bsky.social
#Sane_Making#Music
The Lady #Joni_Mitchell
…Ever timely on Planet Patriarchy

“The story hit the news from coast to coast.
It said you beat the girl you loved the most…”
🎵🖤🎵
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Not to Blame
YouTube video by Joni Mitchell - Topic
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August 6, 2026 at 10:50 PM
gammamadonna.bsky.social
#Weary and
#Stranded on #TheHappyPlanet, where everything’s everywhere. It’s way too much, and it’s all the time.

…a balm…
#Sane_Making #Neruda
Pablo Neruda read by the inimitable Eva Green:
youtu.be/gkJEOdXWCnw?...

(Full poem in ALT)
“Now we will count to twelve and we will all keep still for once on the face of the earth, let's not speak in any language; let's stop for a second, and not move our arms so much. It would be an exotic moment without rush, without engines; we would all be together in a sudden strangeness. Fishermen in the cold sea would not harm whales and the man gathering salt would not look at his hurt hands. Those who prepare green wars, wars with gas, wars with fire, victories with no survivors, would put on clean clothes and walk about with their brothers in the shade, doing nothing. What I want should not be confused with total inactivity. Life is what it is about... I want no truck with death. If we were not so single-minded about keeping our lives moving, and for once could do nothing, perhaps a huge silence might interrupt this sadness of never understanding ourselves and of threatening ourselves with death. Perhaps the earth can teach us
as when everything seems dead
and later proves to be alive. Now I'll count up to twelve and you keep quiet and I will go.” { Keeping Quiet - Pablo Neruda } Eva Green reads Neruda https://youtu.be/gkJEOdXWCnw?si=qL5welnAaqCQBCF_
August 4, 2026 at 7:52 PM
gammamadonna.bsky.social
#Sane_Making #Music
“I am from the Sunday school
I sing soprano in the upstairs choir
You are a holy man
On the F.M. radio
I sat up all the night and watched thee
To see, who in the world you might be …” /1
🔊
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Rainy Night House (2021 Remaster)
YouTube video by Joni Mitchell - Topic
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August 2, 2026 at 10:39 PM
gammamadonna.bsky.social
#Sane_Making #Music
“I can imagine the moment
Breaking out through the silence
All the things that we both might say
And the heart it will not be denied
Till we're both on the same damn side
All the barriers blown away”

Peter and Sinéad
🎵🖤🎵
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Peter Gabriel - Come Talk To Me
YouTube video by Isaac K
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July 31, 2026 at 6:41 PM
gammamadonna.bsky.social
#Sane_Making
“I am in the store touching things.
…
The world is on fire and I am choosing between two kinds of soap.

Everyone here is doing this, filling carts with small comforts while somewhere a child goes to bed hungry, while the earth heats, while men make decisions about who gets to live …
HOW WE DISAPPEAR “I am in the store touching things. Linen napkins, a blue bowl. The world is on fire and I am choosing between two kinds of soap. Everyone here is doing this, filling carts with small comforts while somewhere a child goes to bed hungry, while the earth heats, while men make decisions about who gets to live. I know what this is, this careful arranging while everything collapses. This is how we survive. And also how we disappear.” Alessandra Olanow
July 27, 2026 at 11:25 PM
gammamadonna.bsky.social
#Sane_Making #Music
🎵🖤🎵
July 20, 1969, as Armstrong and Aldrin set their feet upon on the Moon, this Zagreb & Evans song lingered at no. 1 on the Billboard charts in the US.

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Zager & Evans - In the Year 2525
YouTube video by Sanjin Đumišić
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July 21, 2026 at 2:32 AM
gammamadonna.bsky.social
#Sane_Making
We’d have been good friends — just because…

Simple, gentle, vulnerable, and human.
🎵🖤🎵
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Sam Neill sings Randy Newman (The Self Isolation Tapes)
YouTube video by Two Paddocks
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July 14, 2026 at 10:55 PM
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#Sane_Making #Music
“I tell them there’s no hurry, I’m just sitting here doing time…” • John Lennon

🎵🖤☸️🖤🎵

“I laugh because I dare not cry. This is a crazy world and the only way to enjoy it is to treat it as a joke.”
• Isaac Asimov

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WATCHING THE WHEELS. (Ultimate Mix, 2020) - John Lennon (official music video HD)
YouTube video by johnlennon
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July 10, 2026 at 8:49 PM
gammamadonna.bsky.social
#Sane_Making #Music
Judy Collins sings Lennon & McCartney.

I was delighted to see her — just Judy, a grand piano & a guitar — ten-ish years ago in SoCal. A night of story and song. It was sublime. 🎵🖤🎵

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In my life -- Judy Collins -- Live 1966
YouTube video by Squish Afton
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July 9, 2026 at 2:20 AM
gammamadonna.bsky.social
#Sane_Making #Music
It was the last of the horrible 12 Ronnie Raygun — Poppy Bush years. Henley & Hornsby wrote:

“They're beating plowshares into swords
For this tired old man that we elected king
Armchair warriors often fail
And we've been poisoned by these fairy tales.”

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The End Of The Innocence
YouTube video by Don Henley - Topic
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July 5, 2026 at 10:08 PM