[life] is musical
Awhile ago Jim and I had the wonderful opportunity to see Jake Shimabakuro in concert at the Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach. His version of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” on YouTube made him wildly famous and he is now touring as a solo Uke player! So many wonderful opportunities come up for artists [...]
jim riddle and his magnificent ukulele
Jim has been strumming the ukulele every day since he bought it at Good Guys Music and Sound in Honolulu. He ended up with a solid wood mahogany tenor uke after quite a bit of research online before we left for Hawaii and in several shops on Oahu while we were there. He played practically [...]
thought: feel good sounds
Some of my most favorite “sounds” in iTunes while I’m working at home are the radio recordings we made while we were cruising in Tahiti. For those of you who don’t know, “cruising” doesn’t mean taking a trip on a huge commercial cruise ship. We did blue water cruising on a 38′ sailboat from San [...]
thought gap: fossils and fish
Merrik had fun at his new classes today. He is in Dinosaur Discovery and Ocean Exploration. They are a perfect fit for him-kind of like a summer preschool. Art, music, story time all focused around some of his favorite things-whales, sharks, dinosaurs et al. Grandma Hallie came with him today and she had a ball [...]