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Just the green wave going by
"Does anyone still celebrate International Talk Like a Pirate Day?" I wondered, before it occurred to me that I could just ask the internet and discover the answer was yes. In keeping with my haphazard observance of the holiday, have an admiring gifset of Robert Newton heroically impersonating a wrecker in Jamaica Inn (1939) and Gordon Bok, Ann Mayo Muir, and Ed Trickett on "Soon May the Wellerman Come," which is neither a pirate song nor even a chantey, it's a tall tale of a shore-whalers' song from New Zealand, but I was immensely entertained when it took the quarantine internet by storm. I was listening to it along with the rest of its album last week.
I dreamed of a polite conversation with a stranger who was surprised in a slightly skeptical way to hear that I had been writing and publishing short fiction and poetry for more than twenty years, which I suppose suggests my state of mind regarding what no longer feels like it passes for my writing career. I am reminding myself that I have some sort of (multiply tested as such) miserable cold and may be concomitantly low in spirits and should take a walk or something while it's this autumnally bright. I bet it isn't helping that my college reunion for which I did not RSVP because I was too sick to know whether I had any chance of attending is coming up.
I dreamed of a polite conversation with a stranger who was surprised in a slightly skeptical way to hear that I had been writing and publishing short fiction and poetry for more than twenty years, which I suppose suggests my state of mind regarding what no longer feels like it passes for my writing career. I am reminding myself that I have some sort of (multiply tested as such) miserable cold and may be concomitantly low in spirits and should take a walk or something while it's this autumnally bright. I bet it isn't helping that my college reunion for which I did not RSVP because I was too sick to know whether I had any chance of attending is coming up.
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Thank you for reminding me of "Soon May the Wellerman Come." MY HEART, we do find joy in the darkest times.
When I first joined the internet, one of the earliest things I felt was awe for this person named Sonya Taaffe. That feeling is alive and strong. (You can borrow it if your own strength is flagging.)
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Oh, I'm glad to hear it. Well done, that library.
Thank you for reminding me of "Soon May the Wellerman Come." MY HEART, we do find joy in the darkest times.
You're welcome. I loved that people were singing old songs together.
When I first joined the internet, one of the earliest things I felt was awe for this person named Sonya Taaffe. That feeling is alive and strong. (You can borrow it if your own strength is flagging.)
I may need to. Thank you.
*hugs*