Monday Music: One More Cup of Coffee (Heger Walter Band)

Here is an amazing and beautiful rendition of Bob Dylan's "One More Cup of Coffee." This Dylan cover is by the Heger  Walter Band. I think this group takes the song to a new level! (Lead vocals, guitar: Hans Heger; guitar, vocals: Karl Heinz Walter; bass: Math Schouten, drums: Peter Joosten: keys accordeon: Wilbert Verheijen)

One more cup of coffee HEGERWALTERBAND PaludaRecords ISRC NLL280500018 from paludarecords on Vimeo.

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Saturday Haiku: Winter Snows

snows settle

on the mountainside

quiet days

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Image: "new hampshire: winter"
Artist: e.e. cummings
Medium: Oil on cardboard



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Peace in a Time of War

"Aleppo after the Fall" speaks to that uneasy peace, that "haphazard reprieve from war," and the attempt to find a normal life in a world that seems to be perpetually at war.

[Originally posted on June 4, 2017 as part of the "Bearing Witness to the Times" series]

Ruins near the citadel in Aleppo’s Old City. Credit Sebastián Liste/Noor Images, for The New York Times

Aleppo After the Fall

In a city so ancient

That a merchant can stand on a street corner

Where his blood ancestor may have stood

Three thousand years before,
There comes a haphazard reprieve from war.

A weary silence falls
Where streets once bustled

With sales of fabric and spice

Amid the sweet cacophony

Of exuberant traders and pilgrims.

Like a shattered plate,

The courtyard of The Great Mosque

Now lies in fragments –

The hundreds of daily footsteps

But a prayerful memory.

Children play –

When they dare come out –

In the rubble-strewn side streets

While old men try to remember

The ancient pathways.

A flute still plays in the distance;

A dancer regains her steps.

The rest of us settle

Into a strange new world

Where victory is as dangerous as defeat.

                                                                      ~ CK

“On March 7, 2006, the sun rises on Aleppo. Aleppo, along with Damascus and Sana'a, is one of the three oldest inhabited cities in human history,  added to UNESCO's World Heritage List in 1986.” (From The Atlantic Monthly, “Aleppo Before the War"  - Photo by Khaled Al Hariri / Reuters)

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