Pretty Flower

Pretty flower, I saw you showing off proudly while your companions, begonias and impatients, quietly giving up, unable to stand the frost of November nights.

Pretty flower, day after day you became more and more pretty, is it to soften my heart, when I was planning to let you die too?

“After all, geraniums are found in abundance on the shelves in spring and your big pot takes up a lot of space.”

And today, you are still here, after several nights of frost, you are still so pretty, I hear your prayer and I don't want to see you suffer anymore. I'll bring you inside and in the spring you'll find your place on my balcony.

PETRU GUELFUCCI - CORSICA

I'm coming back to this blog to update the messages, after almost 15 years elsewhere, I'm resuming my blogging activities. 15 years is a long time, many messages are no longer up to date.

My new research tells me that Petru Guelfucci is no longer with us. In this month of November, traditionally dedicated to the deceased, I am resuming this post to introduce him to you again

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009, I wrote . . . . . . 

Petru Guelfucci is a Corsica singer, born in 1955 in Sermanu. Emblematic figure in the revival of Corsican polyphony, he helped create the group Canta U Populu Corsu ....

This group will rekindle the flame of nationalism within a generation. "This was the period of reclaiming our heritage, sayd Guelfucci. It was the plague of the time. We were forbidden to speak Corsican in schools. »....

Petru Guelfucci did not succeed at first in his country France, but in Quebec. He then started an international career and earned a gold record in Canada. Petru is a real personality of the Corsican song, with a tone of voice quite unusual and a real sense of melody. Wikipedia He wrote one of the most beautiful songs about the Isle of Beauty: Corsica (1991), and when I heard it on the radio, I got the cassette without hesitation. Corsican singing is captivating, it is a harmony that opens the heart and soothes the mind, it is voices full of color and passion. 

CORSICA

His work will live forever.

Rest In Peace Petru Guelfucci

March 6, 1955 - October 8, 2021

Boogie Woogie Piano man, Tommy Johnson

I'm coming back to this blog to update the messages, after almost 15 years elsewhere, I'm resuming my blogging activities. 15 years is a long time, many messages are no longer up to date. 

My new research tells me that The Boogie Woogie Man Tommy Johnson, a character who fascinated me at the time, is no longer with us. In this month of November, traditionally dedicated to the deceased, I am resuming this post to introduce him to you again

Rest In Peaece Tommy Johnson, a super nice Boogie Man who enterained us in bewitching Boogie Woogies 

R.I.P. TOMMY JOHNSON

March 8, 1940 - February 23, 2021

Japanese bookbinding

Hello all

I'm doing a bit of archiving and classification in my home papers. I was looking for a way to link some documents and I did not want to pay. So I did a search on the Web and I have found this example bookbinding, easy to do and nothing to pay. Who has not some cardboard, some ribbon , printed paper and glue already on hand. The explanations on these video are easy to follow, hopefully that will give you ideas.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

This other video shows the same type of binding with a ribbon as a tether.

Have fun!