“The Lake Isle of Innisfree”- William Butler YeatsI will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,And live alone in the bee-loud glade.And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,Dropping from […]
Category: Musings
Some music stays with you your entire life. Here’s is a beautiful love song for my spousal unit. I’m grateful to her, and to the talented musicians of It’s A Beautiful Day. Let A Woman Flowby David LaFlamme and Pattie SantosI let my woman flowTo her own natural rhythmI let my woman flowTo her own natural rhymeGetting […]
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WLBOTT Year in Review
Hosting Images Early in 2025, we primarily used NightCafe for our image generation, but later in the year we found incredible AI image generation through Gemini and Elder G‘s cousin, Sora. Here’s the wrap from NightCafe: A Word from Elder G WLBOTT: G, you are an honored member of WLBOTT, and an esteemed Elder. Perhaps […]
I was reflecting on a line from Paul Simon’s American Tune this afternoon. And I don’t know a soul who’s not been batteredI don’t have a friend who feels at ease I remember being brought to tears when I saw Paul Simon’s solo version of American Tune in the very darkest days of Covid. Not […]
We’ve loved this song for many years, but only yesterday realized that Red is the Rose is based on the melody of Loch Loman. Red is the RoseRed is the rose that in yonder garden grows,And fair is the lily of the valley;Clear is the water that flows from the BoyneBut my love is fairer […]
WLBOTT Dives Into Shakespeare Let us begin our dive into Shakespeare with one of my favorite BlueSky posters, Humor For Resistance. But all seriousness aside, we recently read the Tomorrow and Tomorrow soliloquy from Macbeth, and were very touched. So…. a little background to Macbeth’s speech…. We’ve got an ambitious guy with a high maintenance, […]
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Anne’s Tree
There was a tree, a horse chestnut tree, that grew outside of the Secret Annex in Amsterdam, where Anne Frank and her family hid from the Nazis. Anne described the tree in three different entries in her diary. For Anne, the tree symbolized continuity, seasons, and hope amidst confinement—an image that dovetails with Laudato Si’’s […]
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And You Shake Your Head
I’m a bad dreamThat I just had todayAnd you shake your head And say it’s a shame.- Thick as a Brick / Jethro Tull
There’s always a danger when researching something you’ve held in your imagination for years. Do you really want to know your hero’s dark side? Is that noble institution actually founded on greed and exploitation? I’ve recently read two books – a biography about Joni Mitchell and an autobiography by Sinéad O’Connor. In both cases, the […]
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The Windows of the Soul
Today, instead of words, let’s explore a series of gazes – eyes that carry decades of living, in faces from many places. Look closely. What do you see? This gallery is more than a meditation on eyes. It’s also an experiment in how artificial intelligence interprets emotion. Can a machine capture the glimmer of joy, […]