{"id":178122,"date":"2024-10-29T17:22:56","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T17:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=178122"},"modified":"2024-10-29T17:22:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T17:22:56","slug":"the-clocks-go-back-no-no-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/10\/29\/the-clocks-go-back-no-no-no\/","title":{"rendered":"The Clocks Go Back, No No No"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I hate the return of the earlier darkness (not the Essex band the other sort). And as I am not a farmer I don&#8217;t really do mornings either so for me it&#8217;s not terribly helpful to my general demeanor. Ho hum and lack a day. Still grinding out the tunes of course. Right shoulders been playing up a bit today after a lot of acoustic guitar playing but what can you do. &#8220;Do or do not, there is no try&#8221; is perhaps not bad advice. Just to confuse you though here is a solo piano tune.<br><strong><br>Leaf On The Line<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1942600235&amp;color=%238c8cc8&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So it&#8217;s 5pm and it&#8217;s dark now. And weird. Perhaps there is magic about, perhaps not. Also I feel a little anxious too again. Maybe lack of activity. It&#8217;s the  exercise bike season now as not so much walking will be done. But I have to be careful with my arthritis  so striking a balance is hard at times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A joyous meeting with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100093486994094\">Jon Bickley <\/a>and the rest of the Invisible Folk Band for a rehearsal for recording session in a couple of weeks \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In a few days the USA will elect a new president.<\/strong><br><br><strong>Here are some lessons from history:<br><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BcQpiuwYoN0?si=NnJr5ADKVgoIgH6h\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-off-white-background-color has-background\">Bishop William J. Barber II is president and senior lecturer of Repairers of the Breach, co-chair of the Poor People\u2019s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival and a Kettering Foundation senior fellow. He is a bishop with the Fellowship of Affirming Ministries, and an executive board member and ordained minister of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). He is also a professor in the practice of public theology and public policy and founding director of the Center for Public Theology and Public Policy at Yale Divinity School. He is the author of five books. His most recent book, White Poverty: How Exposing Myths about Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy, was released in June 2024. Barber served as senior pastor of Greenleaf Christian Church, Disciples of Christ, for 30 years. He was president of the North Carolina NAACP from 2006-2017 and served on the national NAACP board of directors from 2008-2020. He is the architect of the Forward Together Moral Movement that gained national acclaim in 2013 with its Moral Monday protests at the North Carolina General Assembly. In 2015, Barber established Repairers of the Breach to train communities in moral movement building. A highly sought-after speaker, Barber has given numerous keynote addresses and is regularly featured in media outlets such as MSNBC, CNN, NNPA, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. He has 12 honorary degrees and is the recipient of numerous honors, including a 2018 MacArthur Foundation Genius Award, one of the 2015 Roosevelt Institute Four Freedoms Awards (Freedom of Worship), and the 2015 Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship. Barber earned a bachelor\u2019s degree from North Carolina Central University, a master of divinity from Duke University, and a doctorate from Drew University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate the return of the earlier darkness (not the Essex band the other sort). And as I am not a farmer I don&#8217;t really do mornings either so for me it&#8217;s not terribly helpful to my general demeanor. Ho hum and lack a day. Still grinding out the tunes of course. Right shoulders been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/10\/29\/the-clocks-go-back-no-no-no\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Clocks Go Back, No No No<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":178169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Fine-this-end.png?fit=1207%2C552&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-KkW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":154114,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2019\/12\/27\/its-harder-than-you-think\/","url_meta":{"origin":178122,"position":0},"title":"It&#39;s harder than you think","author":"diana Stone","date":"December 27, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Yes, it is.\u00a0 It is very strange but I am about to be reunited with an instrument that I have never really played but was so much the signature sound of the Delta Ladies. 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