Opera: Sorrowful Mysteries

Lifted, by Palmistry


Every Breaking Wave / The Troubles, by U2 


Solomon, by IKON


The Renaissance, by Tomi Thomas


Bittersweet Symphony, by The Verve


The Five Sorrowful Mysteries:
The Agony in the Garden // The Scourging at the Pillar // The Crowning with Thorns // The Carrying of the Cross // The Crucifixion

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Concert: Chemistry's Mysteries

Lady Jay - Oh My My My


James Blake - The Wilhelm Scream


St. Beauty - Holographic Lover

A side-note on referrals:
I don't always remember the history of how I "discovered" a particular track, album, or artiste, but for the above three I have names and dates: Tec, Ghost, and Janelle Monae - beautiful discoveries yielding beautiful discoveries.

@LadyJayLives like the new jam 'oh my my my'...Dope...More Vim Lady!!

— Show Dem Camp (@ShowDemCamp) September 4, 2014

🎵wilhelms scream - James Blake

— TheLoveMovementSdc (@kingluu) November 9, 2015

@StBeautyBand's new song "Holographic Lover" is a cosmic slow jam of epic proportion, and the soundtrack to romance that transcends space and time! Check out my girls and their new release, exclusively premiered on @NylonMag! 🙏🏾#LinkInBio #LovetheFree #KittyCash #StBeautyBand #WondalandRecords

A photo posted by Janelle Monáe (@janellemonae) on May 10, 2016 at 7:43am PDT

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Embossed

Stopped by this little store near my house to buy (a bag of pure) water.
The owner also stocks greeting cards - birthday cards and such - remember those?

 Remember the pure pleasure of the thick card paper and embossed pink flowers and sparkly lettering on the front of the card, to start with? 

The preferably-not-icky poetry inside. 

 Cards were Hallmark or budget or something nice-and-in-between;

or (starting in the late nineties) sometimes afrocentric and handmade. 

Real cards were just such a great idea, before e-cards, before no-cards. 

I'll have to find an excuse to give a card again sometime.  

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P.S. To everyone who loves me (yeah, you), thank you for loving me.  

Come on, Andy. Let's go, Roger.

Another one of the best tennis stories I know is Andy Murray.  He worked/works super-hard.  He was too little at first, then he became strong; then he was ruthlessly criticized for not feeding his country's enormous hopes and dreams, but he ate all that up and in return won big at home: Wimbledon, and Olympic Gold.
On his own terms, I would say.  And this is life. 

Some of the best writing in the world is about tennis, and indeed I've said (written) this before, some of these guys should win a Nobel Prize.  The campaign is on - Steve Tignor and Peter Bodo of Tennis Magazine, for a major literature / writing award.  It's not an entirely selfless campaign: if a tennis writer can win the Nobel, then so can a blogger like me, right?

Read this, please.
And remember this. 

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