I use this to introduce the kids to jazz, cuz of that piano.
But. Alone. At night.
I just sing it to the trees.
Mom, ya know, mom was a pretty hurt cookie, not well at all, tho decent, I'm not saying any abuse-like shit. And of an evening, she'd have a beer, and would put a record on our record-player. It wasn't a stereo, we were poor as fuck, but a record-player.
And Patsy would sing. And my mother would pace around, holding the beer a certain way, and I knew her, then, for one of me, or me for one of her.
We call it "formative".
She was a good kid, I think, in a very hard world.
Patsy made it possible for her to center.
As, indeed, Patsy makes it possible for me.
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Here's "At The Ballet", from the original Broadway cast.
I remember the day I heard it the first time. My mentor T took me and a couple others to see B, who'd let our community theatre scene. And we drove some hours to go to B's house.
I was just a kid, maybe 15? And B's house was exquisite, far classier than I'd yet encountered. And I adored them both, of course, mentors. And she had a pre-release tape. None of us had ever heard or seen the show.
I'mo not bust someone cuz they sibling was fucked up. My sibling was an abuser. I done some bork things in my life, but not like that. Having a family member who committed evil is not a legitimate criticism.
Yeah, I know, awkward.
Predators live in the spaces where we don't talk about it. Cuz, you know, it's awkward.
Coaching Pro-Tip: When the developers act like testing the code is a time-wasting checkbox that costs a great deal and rewards very little, they are usually right, and one has to find out why, and tackle that, before pressing them to test more.
In test-after shops, it's quite common to set a test goal, usually but not always expressed in terms of coverage numbers. Once this is done, the org begins to press the developers to meet that goal.
My experience is that this kind of pressure backfires way more often than it succeeds.