BARRANQUILLA, COLOMBIA— “Where you from?” the driver asks in Spanish after a few minutes in the air-conditioned cab. He’d picked me up on the corner near my apartment, sweating under the morning sun in my khakis and button-down dress shirt with the sleeves rolled-up to the elbow. He was running me to the university, but …
I am mad, just mad, about the hummingbirds in our backyard. J. caught this little guy taking a shower in the sprinklers while perched on the laundry line. He zipped off, probably to go find a blow dryer to feather his hair.
At Second Ave between Pine and Stewart Slightly smaller than human scale.
The Point Defiance Zoo sits on a hillside above Puget Sound. It’s almost like an amphitheater, when you stand at the top, there’s a stunning view towards Mount Rainier and across the water. The setting is grand, just grand, and if you go early on a Sunday morning like we did, there will be no …
I learned it, now it’s your turn. You’ll find the chords for the arrangement I’m playing here, though I’ve replaced the Db9 with Gm7 and the C9 with C7 because my ears like it better that way. And hey, maybe some day I’ll learn to sing, but today is not that day.
Ich möchte ein Eisbär sein/I want to be a polar bear im kalten Polar/at the cold North Pole dann müßte ich nicht mehr schrei´n/Then I wouldn’t howl anymore alles wär so klar/everything would be all right. Eisbären müssen nie weinen./Polar bears must never cry. Eisbär is a 1981 Europop hit by the now defunct Swiss …