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shadowkatApril Memage - Days 17 -19
17. It’s International Bat Appreciation Day – are there bats where you live? Have you ever seen one flying?
Not in NYC or I've not seen any. Probably because it is a city and they tend to stick to the country?
Yes, I saw quite a few as a kid in West Chester, PA, when we living in the rural countryside. Lots of fruit bats.
18. It’s International Jugglers Day! Have you ever tried to juggle?
Yes, and I suck at it.
19. It’s National Garlic Day – are you a fan?
Not really. It's a FoodMAP and my digestive system can only handle it in small quantities. Too much, and digestive issues galore.
20. Do you have a doorbell, a door knocker, or some other device that alerts you to people at the entrance to your home?
Yes, I've a door bell. At the front of the building and my apartment door.
Another flower from yesterday's walk (this is not part of the meme, although you can post one if you so desire):
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A Meditative Easter Holiday and Earth Day Weekend..
I took a walk, brief, because my knees were bothering me - most likely a combination of arthritis and a side-effect of medication that I'm discontinuing. I wandered in and out of Lofty Pigeons Book Store hunting Maya Angelo's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, but alas couldn't find it.
I may have to look in Barnes and Noble or somewhere in the City?
Prior to that, I watched the Brooklyn Unitarian Church's service on FB, where they discussed letting go of things, burning them away on flashpaper. And now, I'm listening to the Manhattan Unitarian Church's service on Youtube which is also about letting go and moving with the land, not against it, and adapting, and rebirth.
Easter and Earth Day are both today, by the way.
I also rented and watched the 1973 film adaptation of the Stephen Schwartz musical Godspell
and is also known as the lyricist and composer behind Pippin and Wicked.
And you've most likely heard the songs from Godspell out of context: Day by Day, Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord, We Can Build a Beautiful City, and By Your Side, also Turn Back Oh Man, and Willows There.
Godspell and Jesus Christ Superstar both premiered on Broadway in 1971. What they both have in common, besides being about Jesus Christ - specifically the last portion of his life leading up to his death, is the composers were both Jewish, and it is a Jewish take on the Jesus story.
They were also both done in the early 70s, during a fractious time period, with large protests, and anxiety. (1971-73 was during the tail end of the Vietnam War, Nixon, Watergate, and the height of the hippie/counter-culture movement - bringing in a wave of cultural change). And both are controversial - neither show the resurrection of Jesus, both ask the same questions, in different ways, and neither provide answers. And both emphasize the message - that a transformative leader isn't going to save us, we need to do that ourselves. There's no King, and life is ever changing and evolving, and to move to the next stage we need to let go of the previous one, to essentially die or let go. One does it with parables and spiritual songs and metaphors, one with operatic songs and more literal storytelling.
I can't honestly tell you which I recommend or prefer. They are so different. But, if you aren't a fan of Pippin or Schwartz and think literally, I can't see you making it through Godspell. It takes place in New York City. In the beginning, each of the cast members are called by a magical John the Baptist, in a Carnival Barker's uniform, complete with decorated cart, popping in and out of their vision. Singing Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord. Each drops the trappings of their lives, a ballerina, a waitress (reading Ulysses with coffee spilled on it), a student photocopying pages from a text in a library, an actress giving up on an audition, a fashion student pulling a rack of clothes across the street, a taxi driver, young business woman studying a shop window, and a street construction worker. They get baptized in a fountain, take on the clothing of hippies and mimes, faces painted, and follow Jesus, who is equally so, as is John the Baptist. And they converge in a junk yard, painting it, and reconstructing it - making it their own. Then throughout the film they travel around the City of New York playing out various parables from the Gospel According to Mathew in mime, and puppetry, and song. The World Trade Center, Central Park, Wall Street, and The East River all their backdrops, along with the Brooklyn Bridge.
At the time Godspell premiered, Schwartz was the first composer to have three successful shows on Broadway at the same time. (Godspell, Mass (with Leonard Bernstein), and Pippin (with Bob Fosse) ).
Godspell features some beautiful and iconic religious songs.
Day by Day
Beautiful City
By My Side
There's also Save the People (and yes, that's Victor Garber from Alias and other shows, singing God Save the People, shirtless in the Central Park fountain.)
I love the soundtrack to Godspell and Pippin. But mileage will vary on this.
The film features Victor Garber as Jesus and Lynn Thigpen as one of the tribe.
It was a lovely day - sunny, and springlike. I did very little. Worked on a water color, but I don't like how it turned out? So may discard and start another one. Some work, some do not.
Mostly a meditative couple of days, doing very little. Except being watchful and commenting on it here for anyone who wishes to listen.
17. It’s International Bat Appreciation Day – are there bats where you live? Have you ever seen one flying?
Not in NYC or I've not seen any. Probably because it is a city and they tend to stick to the country?
Yes, I saw quite a few as a kid in West Chester, PA, when we living in the rural countryside. Lots of fruit bats.
18. It’s International Jugglers Day! Have you ever tried to juggle?
Yes, and I suck at it.
19. It’s National Garlic Day – are you a fan?
Not really. It's a FoodMAP and my digestive system can only handle it in small quantities. Too much, and digestive issues galore.
20. Do you have a doorbell, a door knocker, or some other device that alerts you to people at the entrance to your home?
Yes, I've a door bell. At the front of the building and my apartment door.
Another flower from yesterday's walk (this is not part of the meme, although you can post one if you so desire):
********
A Meditative Easter Holiday and Earth Day Weekend..
I took a walk, brief, because my knees were bothering me - most likely a combination of arthritis and a side-effect of medication that I'm discontinuing. I wandered in and out of Lofty Pigeons Book Store hunting Maya Angelo's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, but alas couldn't find it.
I may have to look in Barnes and Noble or somewhere in the City?
Prior to that, I watched the Brooklyn Unitarian Church's service on FB, where they discussed letting go of things, burning them away on flashpaper. And now, I'm listening to the Manhattan Unitarian Church's service on Youtube which is also about letting go and moving with the land, not against it, and adapting, and rebirth.
Easter and Earth Day are both today, by the way.
I also rented and watched the 1973 film adaptation of the Stephen Schwartz musical Godspell
and is also known as the lyricist and composer behind Pippin and Wicked.
And you've most likely heard the songs from Godspell out of context: Day by Day, Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord, We Can Build a Beautiful City, and By Your Side, also Turn Back Oh Man, and Willows There.
Godspell and Jesus Christ Superstar both premiered on Broadway in 1971. What they both have in common, besides being about Jesus Christ - specifically the last portion of his life leading up to his death, is the composers were both Jewish, and it is a Jewish take on the Jesus story.
They were also both done in the early 70s, during a fractious time period, with large protests, and anxiety. (1971-73 was during the tail end of the Vietnam War, Nixon, Watergate, and the height of the hippie/counter-culture movement - bringing in a wave of cultural change). And both are controversial - neither show the resurrection of Jesus, both ask the same questions, in different ways, and neither provide answers. And both emphasize the message - that a transformative leader isn't going to save us, we need to do that ourselves. There's no King, and life is ever changing and evolving, and to move to the next stage we need to let go of the previous one, to essentially die or let go. One does it with parables and spiritual songs and metaphors, one with operatic songs and more literal storytelling.
I can't honestly tell you which I recommend or prefer. They are so different. But, if you aren't a fan of Pippin or Schwartz and think literally, I can't see you making it through Godspell. It takes place in New York City. In the beginning, each of the cast members are called by a magical John the Baptist, in a Carnival Barker's uniform, complete with decorated cart, popping in and out of their vision. Singing Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord. Each drops the trappings of their lives, a ballerina, a waitress (reading Ulysses with coffee spilled on it), a student photocopying pages from a text in a library, an actress giving up on an audition, a fashion student pulling a rack of clothes across the street, a taxi driver, young business woman studying a shop window, and a street construction worker. They get baptized in a fountain, take on the clothing of hippies and mimes, faces painted, and follow Jesus, who is equally so, as is John the Baptist. And they converge in a junk yard, painting it, and reconstructing it - making it their own. Then throughout the film they travel around the City of New York playing out various parables from the Gospel According to Mathew in mime, and puppetry, and song. The World Trade Center, Central Park, Wall Street, and The East River all their backdrops, along with the Brooklyn Bridge.
At the time Godspell premiered, Schwartz was the first composer to have three successful shows on Broadway at the same time. (Godspell, Mass (with Leonard Bernstein), and Pippin (with Bob Fosse) ).
Godspell features some beautiful and iconic religious songs.
Day by Day
Beautiful City
By My Side
There's also Save the People (and yes, that's Victor Garber from Alias and other shows, singing God Save the People, shirtless in the Central Park fountain.)
I love the soundtrack to Godspell and Pippin. But mileage will vary on this.
The film features Victor Garber as Jesus and Lynn Thigpen as one of the tribe.
It was a lovely day - sunny, and springlike. I did very little. Worked on a water color, but I don't like how it turned out? So may discard and start another one. Some work, some do not.
Mostly a meditative couple of days, doing very little. Except being watchful and commenting on it here for anyone who wishes to listen.
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Date: 2025-04-21 06:52 pm (UTC)