#369 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Saturday June 4)
Good morning and happy weekend!
MUSIC
This is a great mash-up of the song “America,” juxtaposing West Side Story from 1961 and 2021. It’s easy to see how both female leads won the Oscar. Rita Moreno is the bomb. Both are fantastic!:
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My parents would play the You Don’t Have to be Jewish albums and we would laugh ourselves silly. Here’s a good one, based on the ridiculous game Jews often play, “Did you know that ____ is Jewish?”: “When You’re in Love, the Whole World Is Jewish”:
POETRY
This week, the poetry of a “Harlem Renaissance” poet, Helene Johnson. She never knew her father. Her mother was the child of slaves. She attended Boston University and Columbia University and became a noted and published poet.
TREES AT NIGHT
By Helene Johnson
Slim Sentinels
Stretching lacy arms
About a slumbrous moon;
Black quivering
Silhouettes,
Tremulous,
Stenciled on the petal
Of a bluebell;
Ink sputtered
On a robin’s breast;
The jagged rent
Of mountains
Reflected in a
Stilly sleeping lake;
Fragile pinnacles
Of fairy castles;
Torn webs of shadows;
And
Printed ’gainst the sky—
The trembling beauty
Of an urgent pine.
Have a great weekend,
Glenn
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