"The BEST Beatles fingerstyle song for Ukulele? 'Rocky Raccoon'"
Ukulele Zen
Monday, August 31, 2026
I'm going to praise the universe to help me find ways to make this happen.
I should make myself go somewhere that's a totally different region every week.
For plenty o' reasons...
"The Patriarchy disadvantages women and teaches men to submit to other men" is something that's been getting repeated more and more often these days.
Perhaps some of the patterns of punishing sensitive people will no longer seem so normal soon.
"Lo and behold 😐"
haunted.goblin
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dcqx2NWuD1k/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"You must break the pattern today or the loop will repeat"
breeelenehan
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcnoX8GKB1x/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
White supremacy is just misery manifested in the form of persecuting others.
"As ICE closes in, Ohio churches line up families to care for Haitian kids left behind"
"The shackles are there to make you think they're criminals. They weren't."
montemader
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcrFH3YRQT5/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Ancient ways...
"Given that ancient Greece considered..."
I feel like if I was an ancient misogynistic man in another life and I died and got reborn as a man or as a baby who would eventually become a man in this century I wouldn't want to repeat my ancient misogynistic ways.
And I got parking right in front of the proper place to eat.
Well, at least I was in a good mood when I spontaneously turned down the road to Morro Bay and had fish and chips there.
People are being assholes.
They give me that well, at least I tried the food at that Thai restaurant in Malibu once before it burned to the ground feeling.
Geez when are some people going to stop behaving like such fascists?
"ICE Detains 76-Year-Old Green Card Holder With Stage 4 Cancer : Daughter"
I suppose I sort of miss my little one winery Friday afternoon bubble, in a way.
"Should we run blood tests on all babies??"
rrogersworld
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcmdKD_DIUa/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
He was an American white guy, and he wasn't doing so well.
Anyways, I decided to go out and eat an ice cream and a beggar came up to me and I gave him some cash. He said he wanted to buy water and a banana. I think there was enough for him to buy those things.
You must think about this once in awhile.
How safe do immigrants who clean motel rooms feel these days?
Dolly Parton is another reminder that music is such a gift!
Madonna Inn was giving a claustrophobic, Trump voters in denial vibe, but they like talking about how Dolly Parton's favorite booth is there and Trump likes flying the flag half mast for Dolly Parton.
"Dolly Parton's former Solvang retreat is on the market"
If I had known this, I would have taken a picture of that house because I was walking around Solvang taking pictures for my dad (whose birthday it also was yesterday) to show his wife (who's in hospice right now) She really likes Solvang and they enjoyed visiting Dolly's Theme Park earlier this year.
Feminist Man Highlight.
He seems interested in feminism. Which is to say, he seems capable of showing a normal level of concern when an imbalanced patriarchal society is being incredibly harmful to so many women.
"They built a coffin too big to bury."
pharmsoup88
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcGkCwRvS4p/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
The gift of knowledge.
"Throwback to Chickadee Woes"
judvhmusic
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DavocNZg_74/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Sure, I'm glad to have answers now..."
lifeaccordingtokp
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaoRBMgS-wu/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"and this is reason 183848593 why I'm a matriarchist"
oliviap.jones
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dct-VtihTQR/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
I keep thinking about the cleaning ladies wishing me a good morning when I left the motel. 🪣🧽🧺
And they were probably friendlier to me because I was feeling really tired as I was trying to make my way down the staircase. I feel it's probable that all of the motel cleaning ladies were immigrants.
Back to life, back to reality...🎶
If I were rich, maybe I'd become a real wine connoisseur right now. 🤣 Instead of immediately coming down from a vacation "high" by explaining how special this $49 bottle of wine is and no I don't know off the top of my head how much the tax was for it and that it's for a special occasion like the next birthday or something. Because when you put it that way, it's more relaxing. And how I tasted it and it was pleasing. And I took a bottle off the shelf, but the woman put it back and went and fetched me a bottle that had been on its side the whole time from the cellar. And I think it's pinker too. In the meantime, can research recipes with pink peppercorns to go with it!
I gave myself a vacation! I'm going to the beach again soon because I only briefly visited it.
And now I'm back.
"Joking about keeping Latinas in the USA that you find attractive but then also saying to deport their families"
syannebloom
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcmB4SmzyHd/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"For some reason (🙄) I can't put the caption I've written here."
crowandember
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcruvdHy3l4/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"I'm crying in my car after the visit because of the way she speaks kindness and hope into my heart."
westofkat
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcjsDH8Jx3i/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Thinking about times I've fallen in the last few years or so.
Also, a song I heard by the opening act on Friday, and a book I read when I was a kid.
"Hennessy"
B. Strange
https://youtube.com/watch?v=JzXeuFTlq-Q&si=T2m6BZz0-CGKZJto
"My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier"| Goodreads
Sunday, August 30, 2026
On Earth What
I used to mishear this one as:
"Commander, we're married, body and soul" (!)
🙀🙀🙀
Tori Amos – "Body and Soul Lyrics"| Genius Lyrics
Almost as good as a gourmet happy Mediterranean dinner at a gas station!
Berry sauce
Mint patty ice cream
Lavender honey ice cream
I hope I can watch this later!
"Tori Amos - Paso Robles Full Show - 8/28/2026"
Anyways, now I think this poem is just like the beginning of a conversation that can be added on to more!
"The oldest daughter is the angry man"
hayleygracepoetry
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcjhFd3Tuob/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
It's a fine Sunday morning!
I love the backup singers!
Tori Amos - "Body and Soul - Phoenix 8/23/2026"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=CcEfFFVHuvc&si=JJat1Up8x7fjo19g
When I heard it on Friday night, it almost sounded like they were singing "ka ka chameleon..." (But I knew they weren't. But I wanted to see a beautiful chameleon in front of me, for some reason.)
What a difference an hour or so makes.
And when I was listening to music at the show, I thought a lot of these songs are rather wistful, and then by the end of the show it was like, no they're not!
"What a stunning night"
toriamos
https://www.instagram.com/p/DcnI6YwIjcf/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Fables! Retellings vary.
"The Oak and the Reeds by Aesop" | Full Text & Moral
https://americanliterature.com/author/aesop/short-story/the-oak-and-the-reeds
I liked the "Tree and the Reed" fable the best when I was reading it, but I did not try the wine. I liked the "Milkmaid and Her Pail" wine the best because it's a white wine that tastes peppery to me; it makes me think of pink peppercorns. It has tannins in it. It's like the opposite of a rosé because it's a white wine that's made like a red.
"The Milkmaid and Her Pail by Aesop" | Moral & Analysis
https://americanliterature.com/author/aesop/short-story/the-milkmaid-and-her-pail
That was the early '90s...
A really funny memory I have about my friend's mother is that one time when I was staying the night and I was supposed to sleep on the couch, one of her brothers was already sleeping there and he wouldn't move when it was time for me to go to sleep. I couldn't go sleep in his room. I had to sleep on the couch, and his mom was trying to wake him up to go sleep in his room and he wouldn't get up, so his mom turned up the volume on the television and this woman's voice came blaring loud enough to wake up the dead:
YOU GET YOUR PERIOD! YOU STAIN YOUR PANTIES!
And then he wordlessly got up and went upstairs to his room.
Misheard lyrics 😏
"I almost smacked him silly right that night"
Tori Amos – A Sorta Fairytale Lyrics | Genius Lyrics
Recovery & Road Appreciation.
It was fun attending a concert near the 101 with lyrics referencing the 101 and how the crowd cheered for the 101! How often do they cheer for these roads?
"Putting the Damage On (2016 Remaster)"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=SZ2mvMBcXjE&si=j9wkTKWqHuBtdrcB
"Sweet Sangria (2023 Remaster)"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=BJ3nQtopdGk&si=JC4aoXM8r7PUJuHG
"A Sorta Fairytale"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-2Q3k1Zj0A8&si=4fdWErW3dsvokxXp
"What a stunning night"
toriamos
https://www.instagram.com/p/DcnI6YwIjcf/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Saturday night was also quite special! But this is about Friday night though...
I saw a double rainbow on the way to the concert!
Somebody who works at the venue had a really amazing photo of the rainbow over the stage and she was trying to upload it to Instagram but it wasn't working. She showed it to me when I went and bought what ended up being quite the mediocre sandwich with the bun too hard so that I deconstructed the whole thing and ate it all separately and threw most of the bun away. But I was checking back to see if she was ever able to upload the photo.
So there was a double rainbow and then there was a full moon rising.
I started to not feel well and I moved to the lawn and I was so grateful that there was real grass there. Before I went I was just trying to eat some stuff in my Airbnb because I spent money at one single winery that was calling to me. But then I bought the overpriced sandwich at the venue because I was just too woozy.
And finally I was feeling like I was getting nice and grounded again after I finished eating it. And I was feeling like this feral little kid since I had to eat it all separately. Literally like here's a piece of the meat. Here's a piece of the tomato. Here's a piece of the onion. That's what happens when the bun is not functioning properly.
I think I started to feel more properly aligned in my body when "Putting the Damage" on was playing.
"What a stunning night..."
toriamos
https://www.instagram.com/p/DcnI6YwIjcf/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Tori Amos – "Putting the Damage On Lyrics"
https://genius.com/Tori-amos-putting-the-damage-on-lyrics
I don't know if I'll leave earlier, or if I'll hang out for a little bit.
The first room they gave me was really not good; the plumbing was messed up, and then they switched me to a room that's also quite shabby but it looks so much better than the first one. I was telling somebody about how I was nervous about this place after my more pampered stay in wine country and then he's like, be careful. There might be druggies around. And I said I don't know. This place is kind of like in between things. It's got some wine country elements but it's also kind of rougher.
Then this then this charter bus of Europeans pulled up. Lol! I think they're French and they're here for some wine tasting. It was a multi-generational affair. An older man looked rather stressed out and with saying some things very loudly then a lot of people were looking into each other's hotel rooms and laughing. I think they were comparing how shabby the rooms are or something. A man and a woman who looked young and fit and trim were sharing a room. I don't know what their relation is to each other. I wish I understood more French. It's hard to know exactly what they were saying, but I bet they're here for a wine tasting. I'll just bet why else would they come to this motel on a charter bus? And I could hear guitar music coming from one of the rooms.
Why can't they play a song like this on the radio more?
I really like the two voices. It's the one that comes back to me the most right now.
Tori Amos ft. Natashya Hawley - "Veins (lyrics)"
I'm going to look for something like that again.
Not enough people have had really refreshing mint ice cream with berry sauce on it. Oh, and mint ice cream was referenced in the song that I heard at the very end of the concert during the encore:
Tori Amos – "Bouncing off Clouds Lyrics"| Genius Lyrics
https://genius.com/Tori-amos-bouncing-off-clouds-lyrics
"Origin of the classic witch cackle"
u/Typical-Egg1709
I also had this really excellent ice cream yesterday.
Mint patty, it was like real mint leaves were in it, and lavender honey, and a berry sauce on top. It was so good.
The body changes as it ages and everyone has different genetics.
I've been exercising far more regularly and getting sore muscles, but the results have not been what I had hoped. However, some people think I still look younger, but I know how I looked when I was younger and what size I was. So I know that I look older according to my genetics, but people who didn't see me when I was younger still think I'm in a different decade of my life, because some people in their thirties look like how I look right now.
It's been a lot to process.
My teeth have suffered. I can't bite into an apple. I mean, I can only do it on one side, and that's really awkward. I'm probably going to have to have more significant dental work done in the future.
Why do you think people do that?
Ditch the witch. I mean who are you, Witch Finder General in this life? No, that was a different life.
I think this poem is okay. Lots of people in the comments really like it.
"The oldest daughter is the angry man"
hayleygracepoetry
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcjhFd3Tuob/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
The reason I think it's just okay is because it doesn't deal with what happens when you're the oldest daughter and you know sometimes others have suffered more than you and you couldn't fix it.
But nevertheless, this poem has many fans!
So, if you have created a work of art and you feel you can't have a deeper conversation about different view points and you're always tapping into your worshipful fan base to make yourself feel better...
Maybe you're kind of like an oldest daughter, too, but maybe not all of the oldest daughters are dealing with exactly the same things.
But I can still appreciate it while thinking, well, there must be more on this topic out there.
Just some food for thought!
Saturday, August 29, 2026
I close my eyes and it feels like something wants to say...
"This could help A LOT of people."
It's a belief system.
I think I'm starting to change in a certain way right now.
I feel like in the past, I was waiting for the future to make it better, and now I'm just like, what can make it a little bit better today.
I think I'm getting a little bit better at following intuitive guidance.
If I have more detailed conversations with some people after they die than I did before they die, I won't even be surprised.
Isn't it the truth?!
Well, someone's got to die first. If you're doing the Earth life thing. Again, probably.
Sometimes, life is like these two songs!
"Green Tambourine" ~ The Lemon Pipers
"Along the Coppermine Ridge" ~ Rudy Adrian
🎶🎶🎶🎶
"Green Tambourine" ~ The Lemon Pipers
https://youtube.com/watch?v=S5Vz-z4PEkk&si=420FGjwQ4C67pcTi
Along the Coppermine Ridge" ~ Rudy Adrian
They have a bunch of games in front of the place too.
Some people behind me were playing chess but they left and now I'm the only one here. Savoring this culinary greatness all by myself on a Saturday night.
Even the bad things end up being good and fun.
After I ordered food she told me if I wanted to have a drink I would get it at the gas station. But I just decided to get a bottle of water from my car.
I accidentally mashed the top of my water bottle and I couldn't drink out of it. But I still had an old bottle of water in my car so I figured I could pour it in that one. And in the meantime, I watered a little olive tree or something that was in a pot.
And then I noticed a wine bottle was sticking in it. It says Star Lane vineyards. Now I am fascinated and I want to know what that is about. They have a very pretty label on the bottle.
Back to eating this delicious gourmet food that tastes like it should be like prepared for weddings or something!
Oh no! I can't see them tomorrow! They will be closed on Sunday. Well I guess I'll just have to come back to the region. Check them out another day.
It is SO good.
I could cry but I'm not going to because I'm just too busy tasting it. Yum! Gourmet.
Oh the hummus, and the kebab and the bulgar and the salad and the sauces and oh oh everything.
I hope my phone, I mean food, comes soon because I'm almost too tired to eat.
I feel like I've met (IRL) or become acquainted with the existence of a few lonely geniuses in this lifetime and some of them are not famous at the moment and maybe some of them are kind of famous at the moment and I'm just like, you guys...
I gotta travel more often!!!
I'm having the most working class feeling but fun evening! Staying at a motel and going out to eat at a Mediterranean restaurant connected to a gas station before I go to sleep.
Yesterday I had my Airbnb in wine country and wine tasting and concert on the lawn
Have to remember to bring better phone charging equipment. As in, I need to remember to bring the plug that goes into the wall because some of these places do not have the latest phone charging technology.
Friday, August 28, 2026
Oh it's not the first time I've heard this but just waiting for a space to be free so it's coming back in my head again.
"Pride goeth before fall."
The universe is so much bigger than any one or two or a collection of us.
But there's all these connections that are still happening anyways.
Serenity prayer, etc. Don't support a fascist just because a cult tells you to do it!
"I can't wait..."
yourdailydoseofselflove
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcjiBj6vmgm/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
This is shocking. People feeling so entitled to oppress the bodies of other people. For what?
"ICE grants $16.7 million contract to buy thousands of electric shock gloves"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-electric-shock-glove-16-7-million-contract/
"ICE Agent Accused of Framing Shooting Victim Walks Free in Texas"
"'No one is safe': Inside a Maryland Haitian community grappling with ICE raids" - ABC News
https://abcnews.com/US/safe-inside-maryland-haitian-community-grappling-ice-raids/story?id=136017552
I know what I'm going to do now.
I'm going to drive in my sandals and keep the chunky high heels in the car and then ask if it's a good spot to wear the high heels or not.
I suppose that when you become a spirit, you don't have to be this shallow anymore.
I brought along my nice thick chunky high heels, probably just to wear inside; however I did not bring any jeans, and I am regretting it.
"Jean shorts SAW us"
yourdailydoseofselflove
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcgnK6QSmkz/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Ach, zo advanced for right now. Goals though.
"Threes Company theme song (Ukulele cover)"
karlinladeramusic
Really amazing!
"DIE YOUNG, STAY PRETTY LUCRATIVE"- Record Collector Magazine
https://recordcollectormag.com/articles/die-young-stay-pretty-lucrative
Every morning's gotta be different.
This morning features the smell of hay and the burnt marshmallow taste of blue lotus flowers that sat in a cup of water all night because the human who managed to heat the water without making coffee in the Keurig fell asleep before drinking it, but why let a nice cup of blue lotus flower tea go to waste.
Morning Trivia!
"TIL Three's Company theme song was written by the same man who wrote the Sesame Street theme"
u/FTwo
Here's a little humor though; hahaha!
Phantom of the Opera.
"It's a tough job..."
cjadele
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcZk4XPKLSZ/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
It's a Caring About Humanity & Human Health thing.
If certain types of thin people and certain types of mothers and certain types of people in the spirit world now seem to be less prejudiced and able have more respect for my experiences than others at this time, then I'll just have to enjoy that, and hope that maybe some of the other kinds of people who used to seem to have the potential to be more open-minded / curious about others will catch up soon.
It is an ordeal.
I can't believe how many people are still convinced that to be prejudiced against certain types of women living in certain types of bodies is what feels normal and good enough for them.
Thursday, August 27, 2026
Maybe I'll read this novel and then I'll watch the new film when it comes out.
"East of Eden | John Steinbeck (10/10)"
I threw a slobbery ball for a dog several times today.
Today was so different from yesterday. Thank God. And I walked outside and noticed the lunar eclipse was going on. Didn't get a good picture of it because my phone doesn't take good pictures. But today my body was cooperating better and I made life different and I did it "All By Myself..."
(Cute song, "All By Myself.")
Also, I heard some 60s music on the radio and I was thinking oh Lucy probably would have listened to that one but then I was like well who are you to know? After all, other people knew her so much better than you. Perhaps you would pick a song and they'd say that wasn't the kind of music that Lucy would listen to at all. But then, I just as I was thinking that thought, I was passing by a road and it said Lucy Brown.
Lucy Brown!
Could Lucy Brown be a great name for a character?
Kind of makes me think of Charlie Brown a little bit.
And later I was revisiting that moment as I walked through the park and it was like, "Yeah, but of course, one must let go of things..."
And then I heard a bell go *ding.* It sounded like a meditation bell, but it wasn't. It was a bunch of moms and kids on the playground. Tiny little children were playing on an instrument, making the *ding* noise. It sounded like a good noise.
I feel that we can be guided by people who have transitioned (death) because their higher self is interested in us, but then again, maybe a part of them is also already reincarnated as a little kid, having new experiences. Isn't that a trip?
And then I began walking across the big lawn in the park, back towards my car, and for some reason the song of the evening came back to me...
("The Party")
Especially the part about ticking and tocking.
Think of all the different kinds of clocks people have looked at throughout the centuries.
I feel like something I admire about 19th Century Transcendentalists ever so long ago is how they had real conversations and arguments with each other. I don't know. Maybe it's stressful to communicate that way sometimes, but they didn't have TV, so what else were they supposed to do? They didn't have social media accounts to post and repost things.
In the past, I felt like when people didn't like what I had to say, I was like but you're just trying to shut me down. You're just trying to oppress me. You're just trying to censor me blah blah blah blah blah. Its more important to say it now because in the future it's not going to seem as odd was also something that was part of my response.
And that's quite true in this lifetime of mine. Because when I was a child or even a younger adult, I would express feminist sentiments that are kind of normal to people now. But they used to make people say oh you're that feminist blah blah blah. Because they weren't normal enough back then, but then later they became more normal and acceptable to society and people don't say that as much anymore. They don't say oh, you're such a feminist like it's a bad thing as often.
Although I will say sometimes their actions communicate that they might still be thinking it.
But ways of communicating could change in the future because everything's just a little partial view of what's all going on. An energy gets inside of you, and you don't know how to let it out. Maybe you use words. Maybe you use music. Maybe you go meditate. Maybe you lie on some grass. Maybe you pet a nice pet. Maybe read a book. Maybe watch a movie. Maybe you talk to a person. Maybe you don't talk to a person. What do you do?
Traveling can make me feel like a really different person sometimes.
"Album Review: Tori Amos – In Times of Dragons" - Joyzine
https://joyzine.org/2026/05/01/album-review-tori-amos-in-times-of-dragons/
Some of my drive felt dangerous so it was interesting to experience the album and it's entirety when I had to keep my hands on the wheel and my eyes on the road.
But what will the song of the night be?
The song of the morning, the song of the afternoon and the song of the evening...
"Three's Company theme song - lyrics on screen AND BACKWARDS"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=CQLYGlDnsqs&si=F6d1dbiZIo50JK_7
The Marías - No One Noticed (Lyrics)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Tdt9sbqdfSU&si=h3C1wAasanJ_DHcv
St. Vincent - "The Party (Lyrics)"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=evkZtqmHVSk&si=EOqfvkpWu5CuFZK1
Of course, I also had to watch this because things are still totally messed up in my country.
"Danbury, Connecticut is under siege by ICE."
embodimentwithemily
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcjSID6q62E/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)