September 30
I always have a quotation for everything – it saves original thinking. ~ Dorothy Sayers [Editor’s note: I’ve always said Ms. Sayers knows whereof she speaks . . . ]
Leading off with the rehab team at Alomere Health, our local hospital (photo from a local newspaper ad). I spent three months (three days a week until 36 sessions completed) with them this spring. I was surprised to learn that less than a third of the people eligible for this program take it. I was a regular, as well as several other people on pretty much the same cycle as me, but I could never get the staff to buy into the notion that doughnuts have great nutritional value? ~ Me
Some people have knees, ankles. It’s always been my back. That’s been one thing I’ve always had to be conscious about strengthening and being in rehab. Pretty much I’ve always rehabbed it. ~ Diana Taurasi
I do a lot of heart rehab exercise, and cardio as well. I do some specialist stuff and then some bog-standard ‘bike to nowhere,’ as I call it. ~ Paul Whitehouse
Cardiac rehabilitation is a supervised program that includes: Physical activity. Education about healthy living, including how to eat healthy, take medicine as prescribed, and quit smoking. Counseling to find ways to relieve stress and improve mental health.
[This was on May 26, I believe my penultimate session. I seem to recall Emily took the photo . . . ]
Everyone I tell that I had an aneurysm always says, ‘Oh, my cousin died from that.’ Well, I didn’t, so I’m amazed. I was in a wheelchair, and I had to go to rehab. And now I’m walking! ~ Teri Garr
[I assume Emily’s taskmaster abilities came from the fact she was a member of the 2018 undefeated state champion Sauk Centre basketball team. By the time I was finished with this machine, it required a complete overhaul . . . ]
July 21
The Legacy of the Lakes Museum is pleased to welcome back Davina & the Vagabonds to the Legacy Gardens!
“Davina Sowers creates her own Americana mishmash — a little Amy Winehouse-worthy neo-soul here, a little Great American Songbook-influenced songcraft there.” ~ Rolling Stone Magazine (legacyofthelakes.org)
Davina and the Vagabonds is a jazz blues band based in the Twin Cities, Minnesota and formed in 2006. The band consists of Davina Lozier (formerly Sowers), Zack Lozier (trumpet), Steve Rogness (trombone), Connor McRae Hammergren (drums), and Andrew Foreman (upright bass). Their 2014 release titled Sunshine charted at #13 on the Billboard Blues Chart (Wikipedia).
Music is art, and art is important and rare. ~ Taylor Swift
Music can change the world because it can change people. ~ Bono
Without music, life would be a mistake. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Music is my religion. ~ Jimi Hendrix
Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours. ~ Elton John
Please don’t stop the music. ~ Rihanna
I love rock n’ roll, so put another dime in the jukebox, baby. ~ Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
If music be the food of love, play on. ~ William Shakespeare,
[Lowell Pickett, the Minneapolis native helped found the famous Dakota Jazz Club in the Twin City in 1985, and helps out around Alexandria frequently as well . . . ]
A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. ~ Elvis Presley
By the ’90s, I wasn’t really an actor anymore. I was someone who went on the road with these gigantic concerts. ~ Bette Midler
[Davina!]
I’ve been to too many Dead concerts. There’ve been smokin’ holes where my memory used to be. ~ Ken Kesey
[Deadheads?]
July 22
I could never in a hundred summers get tired of this. ~ Susan Branch
[My second visit to Pilgrim Point, here on far side of Lake Ida, in one season . . . ]
Stay close to the serenity of a lake to meet your own peace of mind. ~ Munia Khan
[With thanks again to our Lake Ida hosts . . . ]
Summertime and the livin’ is easy. ~ Porgy and Bess
[Pilgrim Point with a paraglider . . . ]
July 23
One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by. ~ Jeannette Walls
[Another Sunday breakfast at the golf club . . . ]
The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come to my concerts, still buy my CDs, I’ll keep playing until I feel like I can’t. ~ B. B. King
[And then it was on to Carlos Creek Winery for a musical interlude with Greg Donahue and Erik Schultz . . . ]
A lot of people that come to the concerts are in their 20s. I think they come to listen to something new, and I want to be able to provide that. ~ Joe Hisaishi
I think my meditation helps me to transcend and get beyond the grip of all the negativity and regenerate from within a more positive attitude, which comes in very handy when you’re going to do 150 concerts a year. ~ Mike Love
[Greg is taking on a more “vocal” role of late . . . ]
Concerts every night, autograph signings, endorsements, and so on. That’s not what real life is about. ~ Vanilla Ice
All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds! ~ Yoko Ono
For a long time, I couldn’t actually deal with playing concerts; it was a totally alien concept to me, ’cause I was used to playing in clubs and dance halls. ~ Van Morrison
There’s a tendency to make more money at concerts. That’s from a financial standpoint. Night clubs have a better feel, better contact between the artist and the audience. ~ Al Green
[The kids in the truck . . . ]
I’ve looked at photographs of myself during concerts and it sometimes looks as if I’m in a fencing move, with a guitar in my hands instead of a sword. ~ Neil Diamond
[Fans, i.e., two of Greg’s three daughters, getting close-ups . . . ]
Barbra Streisand is without a doubt one of the most honest people I have ever known. There is no doubt in my mind that she will not be doing any more concerts. Of course, she still will be making records and starring and directing in movies. ~ Marvin Hamlisch
[The entire Donahue family . . . ]
Do you know how many concerts I’ve done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four. ~ Carly Simon
[The traveling fan club . . . ]
We do a lot of light classical programming with that, too… obviously… a lot of Tchaikovsky music, Grieg, things like that which have become less classical with classical concerts. ~ Skitch Henderson
The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don’t listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don’t listen anyway. When people go to concerts, they say I’m going to see… not, I’m going to hear. ~ Branford Marsalis
July 24
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. ~ Edward Abbey
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. ~ G. K. Chesterton
July 26
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water. ~ Christopher Morley
[Honoring our biggest rainfall of the season . . . ]
Life’s not about waiting for the storm to pass… It’s about learning to dance in the rain. ~ Vivian Greene
July 27
Gray skies are just clouds passing over. ~ Duke Ellington
[Happy Birthday, USA . . . ]
I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I’d see the summer garden in rainbow clouds. ~ Robert Bridges
If you want to relax, watch the clouds pass by if you’re laying on the grass, or sit in front of the creek; just doing nothing and having those still moments is what really rejuvenates the body. ~ Miranda Kerr
We have chased away the clouds, the sky is all ‘rose.’ ~ Francois Hollande
I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest. ~ Robert Wyatt
In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
When you’re a kid, you lay in the grass and watch the clouds going over, and you literally don’t have a thought in your mind. It’s purely meditation, and we lose that. ~ Dick Van Dyke
Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it there. ~ Barbara Walters
August 7
I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
[The Salty Dogs with this Monday performance at Gathered Oaks . . . ]
Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. ~ Henry James
[The Super orders our pizza . . . ]
Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be. ~ Nora Ephron
[The boys . . . ]
A little bit of summer is what the whole year is all about. ~ John Mayer
Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter. ~ Henry David Thoreau
I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies. ~ Toni Morrison
I wanna soak up the sun. ~ Sheryl Crow
[The owner of the establishment and previous a fellow board member at Theatre L’Homme Dieu in the right background . . . ]
August 8
In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I’ve been oblivious. ~ Carole King
[This will go down as one of the most entertaining days of my life: “Barbie” in the afternoon; “Beautiful” at night . . . ]
It is the best day ever. So was yesterday, and so is tomorrow, and every day from now until forever. ~ Barbie
Thanks to Barbie all problems of feminism have been solved. ~ Narrator
My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue, an everlasting vision of the ever changing view. ~ Carole King
[We were fortunate this show had a two-week run because we were at camp the first week . . . ]
I only wanted to be a songwriter. I never wanted to be a singer. And I never wanted to be famous. ~ Carole King
[The stage is set for the big hit of the summer . . . ]
I’ve had a remarkable life. I seem to be in such good places at the right time. You know, if you were to ask me to sum my life up in one word, gratitude. ~ Carole King
When I was younger, I was kind of fearless. I think it takes more courage to do things when you know more. I was completely naive, and I was like, ‘Why can’t I do anything I want to do? ~ Carole King
[The entire cast out for a standing ‘O’ . . . ]
My one area of vulnerability was I didn’t know how to have a healthy relationship with a man. ~ Carole King
[Katherine Fried, who starred as Carole in the show, is the niece of Anthony Miltich, oft-featured in this blog . . . ]
I write heavily under the influence of James Taylor. ~ Carole King
I’ve had a remarkable life. I seem to be in such good places at the right time. You know, if you were to ask me to sum my life up in one word, gratitude. ~ Carole King
I just sort of try to be a good person; try to write music that lifts people and makes me feel good to sing. ~ Carole King
[Fans! As also a theatre volunteer, Jeanne saw this show perhaps a record number of times, so many that she recruited her son Jay to come from Madison, Wisconsin to see it . . . ]
I used to hate the sound of my voice. ~ Carole King
The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own. ~ Carole King
My name at birth was Carol Joan Klein. It would take me five decades to appreciate my surname and the history that came with it. Along the way, I would add an ‘e’ to Carol and acquire several more surnames. ~ Carole King
There is a downside to having one of the biggest-selling albums ever. ~ Carole King
[I am not unique in owning this album. I may be rather unique in that I purchased it when I was stationed on Okinawa . . . ]
August 11
I wish I could relate to the people I’m related to. ~ Jeff Foxworthy
[As the sun settles slowly in the west, the view of Lake L’Homme Dieu from the Lure Lakebar patio . . . ]
There are no ‘Leave It to Beaver’ families. Everybody’s family’s got that one nut that comes to the family reunion and you’re like, OK, that guy’s here. ~ Eddie Griffen
[My “little” brother, Cam, came up from Mounds View for his class reunion. But he did not graduate from Alex – the family moved to D.C. in 1966. He came for the Alex reunion with a classmate, Rog, from his graduating class from Yorktown High School in Arlington, Virginia . . . ]
I’ve never been to a school reunion. Mainly because I’m still in touch with my two friends and after them, I only really liked the teachers. I’m pretty sure no one invites teachers to school reunions. ~ Sarah Millican
[Rog reportedly had more fun at the Alex reunion with Cam than he had at his Yorktown reunion . . . ]
Just thinking about the Pittsburgh franchise and Dan Rooney when he hired me, my first goal was just not to get fired before my 20th high school reunion. ~ Bill Cowher
[I’ve never been here, but whenever Rog comes to Minnesota the boys have to make a run to Cloquet for Gordy’s Hi-Hat (photo posted by Rog on FB, September 29) . . . ]
August 12
An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut. ~ George Jean Nathan
[Doughnut (?) Saturday . . . ]
August 13
We will never be an advanced civilization as long as rain showers can delay the launching of a space rocket. ~ George Carlin
[A rainy afternoon at the winery for the wine pick up party . . . ]
August 14
Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards. ~ Vladimir Nabokov.
[A rainfall that topped July 26 . . . ]
Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. ~ Roger Miller
August 16
I kept telling myself: Cold roast beef. Cold roast beef. Cold roast beef. ~ Stephen King
[A beef commercial at the golf club . . . ]
If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you’ll find an excuse. ~ Ryan Blair
Barbie has a great day every day, but Ken only has a great day if Barbie looks at him. ~ Narrator
We fixed everything in the real world so all women are happy and powerful. ~ Barbie
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