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Well you know the blues got pregnant and they named the baby Rock & Roll (Muddy Waters)

Photo by N Kamalov on Unsplash My mission is to celebrate life through the blues and it always has been. Many people in this busy world might be new to this music, so it's my job to share the work of the great people who shaped the blues that I play. I hope that you will respond to it and find a connection between it and the feelings and events in your own lives. That's what it's all about! John Mayall

I write songs about real things. The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really (John Mayall)

 

She moved more smoothly in heat (Anne Tyler)

Photo by ZEKERIYA SEN on Unsplash It was hot now, but she liked being hot. She felt she moved more smoothly in heat. The glaze of sweat on her face took her back to airless nights in Tehran, when she and her family slept on mattresses dragged up to the rooftop and you could look across the city and see all the other families arranging their mattresses on their rooftops, as if every house had split open to show the lives going on inside. And then at dawn the call to prayer would float them all up from their sleep. Anne Tyler (in Digging to America)

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated (Confucius)

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Fortify yourself with a flock of friends! There is always at least one who will understand, inspire, and give you the lift you may need at the time (George M. Adams)

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Like many vivid memories, his recollection of strolling towards Turville Heath with Florence created a penumbra of oblivion around it (Ian McEwan)

Photo by Nong V on Unsplash Like many vivid memories, his recollection of strolling towards Turville Heath with Florence created a penumbra of oblivion around it. Ian McEwan (in On Chesil Beach )