Happy Birthday: Zeppo Marx, comedian/actorBorn Feb. 25, 1901 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v3etuIw-aM 50 States, 100 Weeks: Lithified Sand Dunes, Kauai, HI Photo credit: onlyinhawaii.com Music: Meet Me at the Mall by James Kochalka Superstar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfoI26MMasU Poetry: 1977: Poem for Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer by June JordanYou used to say, “June?Honey when you come down here you supposed to stay …
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Care Package for Monday, Feb. 24, 2020
Happy Birthday: Steve Jobs, Apple Computers co-founderBorn Feb. 24, 1955 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc 50 States, 100 Weeks: Kaniakapupu Ruins, Honolulu, HI Photo credit: roastmaster.com Music: You Say You’re Alive by The Mountain Says No https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlGIEiQvh5Q Poetry: Waiting on the mayflower by Evie Shockley “What, to the american slave, is your 4th of july?” – Frederick Douglass I. …
Care Package for Sunday, Feb. 23, 2020
Happy Birthday: Peter Fonda, actorBorn Feb. 23, 1940 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN0bolaapWA 50 States, 100 Weeks: Mauna Kea, Hilo, HI Photo credit: bigislandhikes.com Music: Ghost by Phish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3VfzZhcG1g Poetry: A Short Speech to My Friends by Amiri BakakaA political art, let it betenderness, low strings the fingerstouch, or the width of autumnclimbing wider avenues, among the virtueRead more …
Care Package for Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020
Happy Birthday: Lady Olave Baden-Powell, Girl Guides founderBorn Feb. 22, 1889 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ9my6gx7OY 50 States, 100 Weeks: Yoko Crater Trail, Honolulu, HI Photo credit: bestofoahu.com Music: Jack by Names By Strangers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xRyoTbwlzU Poetry: Afterimages by Audre Lorde IHowever the image entersits force remains withinmy eyesrockstrewn caves where dragonfish evolveRead more Holiday: Black History Month https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcoVAtuemhQ Comic …
Care Package for Friday, Feb. 21, 2020
Happy Birthday: Nina Simone, singerBorn Feb. 21, 1933 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R96jRnBYymU 50 States, 100 Weeks: Kona Coffee Living History Farm, Captain Cook, HI Photo credit: atlasobscura.com Music: How It Feels To Be Free by Nina Simone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dlrXCYrNYI Poetry: Take Me Out to the Go-Go by Thomas Sayers EllisNikita zips across stageTrailed by a loop of white-glovedOne-wheelers: Killer …