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<h3>ELDER MUSIC: Little</h3>
<p><a style="float: left;" href="http://www.timegoesby.net/.a/6a00d8341c85cd53ef0115724cd99e970b-pi"><img class="at-xid-6a00d8341c85cd53ef0115724cd99e970b " alt="PeterTibbles75x75" title="PeterTibbles75x75" src="http://www.timegoesby.net/.a/6a00d8341c85cd53ef0115724cd99e970b-800wi" style="margin: 7px 5px 0px 0px;" border="0" /></a><em>This Sunday Elder Music column was launched in December of 2008. By May of the following year, one commenter, Peter Tibbles, had added so much knowledge and value to my poor attempts at musical presentations that I asked him to take over the column. He's been here each week ever since delighting us with his astonishing grasp of just about everything musical, his humor and sense of fun. You can read <a href="http://www.timegoesby.net/weblog/tgb-elder-music-contributor-peter-tibbles.html">Peter's bio here</a> and find links to <a href="http://www.timegoesby.net/weblog/elder-music/">all his columns here</a>.</em></p>
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<p>After doing a column on “Bigs” last week, it was pretty obvious that I’d do one on “Littles” as well. Here it is.</p>
<p>There are a lot of “Littles” and many I wanted to include didn’t make the cut. Never mind, the ones who did are worth listening to. As with “Big,” most of the tracks seem to be blues or R&B performers but that’s fine with me.</p>
<p>The obvious starting point, at least as far as I’m concerned is <strong>LITTLE RICHARD</strong>.</p>
<p><a style="display: inline;" href="http://www.timegoesby.net/.a/6a00d8341c85cd53ef0168e8d7cdc7970c-pi"><img class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c85cd53ef0168e8d7cdc7970c" alt="Little Richard" title="Little Richard" src="http://www.timegoesby.net/.a/6a00d8341c85cd53ef0168e8d7cdc7970c-800wi" border="0" /></a></p>
<p>Richard Penniman is a somewhat flamboyant artist. He is also one of the half dozen most important musicians in the development of rock & roll. Anyone who has listened to music for the last 60 years can’t help but to have heard his songs.</p>
<p>However, today for your musical delectation, I won’t go with one of Richard’s usual tunes. This is a slow, quite restrained song, <em>Maybe I’m Right</em>.</p>
<p class="asset asset-audio at-xid-6a00d8341c85cd53ef016763d76ec6970b"><a href="http://www.timegoesby.net/files/little-richard---maybe-im-right-1.mp3" class="inline-player">♫ Little Richard - Maybe I'm Right</a></p>
<p><strong>LITTLE WILLIE JOHN</strong> wrote and recorded the original version of the song <em>Fever</em> that Peggy Lee later made into a smash hit.</p>
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<p>William John was born in Arkansas but the family moved to Detroit when he was four. As a teenager, he and his siblings started a gospel group and they performed around town.</p>
<p>He caught the ear of Johnny Otis who put him under contract and recorded several songs that made the charts, including <em>Fever</em> which earned him a gold record.</p>
<p>Apparently, Willie John had a short temper and liked a drink or two (or several). He was banged up for manslaughter but released on appeal and he recorded an album that wasn’t released for decades. He died of a heart attack around then at the age of 30. Here is that original version of <em>Fever</em>.</p>
<p class="asset asset-audio at-xid-6a00d8341c85cd53ef016302e294db970d"><a href="http://www.timegoesby.net/files/little-willie-john---fever-1.mp3" class="inline-player">♫ Little Willie John - Fever</a></p>
<p><strong>LITTLE JUNIOR'S BLUE FLAMES</strong> recorded for Sun records before Elvis got into the recording biz and Sun turned into a rockabilly studio. Little Junior is Junior Parker, or Herman Parker to his mum and dad, and was born in Clarksdale, Mississippi, the birthplace of a multitude of blues musicians.</p>
<p><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://www.timegoesby.net/.a/6a00d8341c85cd53ef016763d73df1970b-800wi" alt="Little Junior" title="Little Junior"></div></p>
<p>Junior sang in gospel groups as a kiddie and was on the blues circuit when he was a teenager. He played with Sonny Boy Williamson, Howlin’ Wolf, Bobby Blue Bland, B.B. King and many others – they’re just the ones I like a lot.</p>
<p>His recording career began when Ike Turner recorded him. Sam Phillips heard this and signed him to Sun records where he cut a bunch of songs including <em>Mystery Train</em> that Elvis later covered, also at Sun.</p>
<p>He died at just 39 while undergoing surgery for a brain tumor. Here’s Junior’s version of <em>Mystery Train</em>.</p>
<p class="asset asset-audio at-xid-6a00d8341c85cd53ef016763d770ba970b"><a href="http://www.timegoesby.net/files/little-juniors-blue-flames---mystery-train-1.mp3" class="inline-player">♫ Little Junior's Blue Flames - Mystery Train</a></p>
<p>The legend is that <strong>LITTLE EVA</strong>, or Eva Boyd to her mum and dad, was a babysitter for Carole King and Jerry Goffin - they were married at the time - and they were so taken with her impromptu dancing style that they wrote a song for her.</p>
<p><a style="display: inline;" href="http://www.timegoesby.net/.a/6a00d8341c85cd53ef0168e8d7d252970c-pi"><img class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c85cd53ef0168e8d7d252970c" alt="Little Eva" title="Little Eva" src="http://www.timegoesby.net/.a/6a00d8341c85cd53ef0168e8d7d252970c-800wi" border="0" /></a></p>
<p>The truth is always more boring. They knew before they hired her that she was a pretty good singer so it was only a matter of time before they sent a song her way.</p>
<p>Eva was from North Carolina but her family moved to New York when she was very young. As mentioned, she got this job with the songwriters and when she recorded a demo, with their influence, a real record was released. It was a smash hit.</p>
<p>Another myth is that they were miffed at this, as singers were plentiful but good babysitters were hard to come by. Eva had other songs that weren’t quite as successful and, alas, died of cancer in 2001 at only 59.</p>
<p>The song was later also a huge hit for Australian singer Kylie Minogue, but her version is considerably inferior to the original. <em>The Loco-Motion</em>.</p>
<p class="asset asset-audio at-xid-6a00d8341c85cd53ef016763d77204970b"><a href="http://www.timegoesby.net/files/little-eva---the-loco-motion-1.mp3" class="inline-player">♫ Little Eva - The Loco-Motion</a></p>
<p><strong>LITTLE FEAT</strong> was the brainchild of Lowell George and Bill Payne.</p>
<p><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://www.timegoesby.net/.a/6a00d8341c85cd53ef016763d7419b970b-800wi" alt="Little Feat" title="Little Feat"></div></p>
<p>Lowell, at the time they met, was playing in the Mothers of Invention. Bill auditioned for the group but was refused. He struck up a friendship with Lowell and they decided to start their own band.
<p>They grabbed Roy Estrada, also a Mother, and Richie Hayward who was in a previous group with Lowell. They said that spelt Feat that way as an homage to The Beatles.</p>
<p>There are various rumors about Lowell’s departure from the Mothers, all of them revolve around the song <em>Willin’</em>. One is that Frank Zappa didn’t like the drug references in the song; he was seriously anti-drug (apart from his ciggies, I notice).</p>
<p>Some of the other tales are more positive. We probably won’t know the real story as, unfortunately, both Frank and Lowell are dead. Here is <em>Willin’</em>.</p>
<p class="asset asset-audio at-xid-6a00d8341c85cd53ef0168e8d801f9970c"><a href="http://www.timegoesby.net/files/little-feat---willin-1.mp3" class="inline-player">♫ Little Feat - Willin'</a></p>
<p><strong>LITTLE CHARLIE & THE NIGHTCATS</strong> began when Charlie Baty, who was studying mathematics at U.C. Berkeley (yay, another maths major), met Rick Estrin and said, “Let’s form a band” or something like that.</p>
<p><a style="display: inline;" href="http://www.timegoesby.net/.a/6a00d8341c85cd53ef0168e8d7d53e970c-pi"><img class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c85cd53ef0168e8d7d53e970c" alt="Little Charlie & the Nightcats" title="Little Charlie & the Nightcats" src="http://www.timegoesby.net/.a/6a00d8341c85cd53ef0168e8d7d53e970c-800wi" border="0" /></a></p>
<p>They recruited other musicians but there has been a bit of a turnover in these over the years. The band’s music is essentially Chicago blues with an element of rock & roll, surf music, Western swing, jump blues and anything else they can think of at any performance.</p>
<p>Rick has turned out to be the dominant person in the group and these days they are called Rick Estrin & the Nightcats. Also, lately Charlie no longer tours with the band.</p>
<p>This track is back when they had their original name. I hear a touch of John Hammond in the vocals, by Rick, on this track and that’s no bad thing. It is <em>I Could Deal With It</em>.</p>
<p class="asset asset-audio at-xid-6a00d8341c85cd53ef016302e29796970d"><a href="http://www.timegoesby.net/files/little-charlie-the-nightcats---i-could-deal-with-it-1.mp3" class="inline-player">♫ Little Charlie & the Nightcats - I Could Deal With It</a></p>
<strong>LITTLE ESTHER</strong> Phillips was born Esther Jones in Galveston.</p>
<p><a style="display: inline;" href="http://www.timegoesby.net/.a/6a00d8341c85cd53ef0168e8d7d60b970c-pi"><img class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c85cd53ef0168e8d7d60b970c" alt="Little Esther" title="Little Esther" src="http://www.timegoesby.net/.a/6a00d8341c85cd53ef0168e8d7d60b970c-800wi" border="0" /></a></p>
<p>Her parents divorced early on and Esther spent her adolescence shuffling between mum and dad in Houston and Los Angeles. Her sister pushed her into a talent contest where she caught the ear of Johnny Otis (he seems to have done a lot of ear catching) who was so impressed he signed her to a recording contract and included her in his touring review.</p>
<p>She had several hits in the early Fifties but they dried up after a while, possibly because Johnny had stopped producing her records. Unfortunately, she was a serious drug user and although she made a comeback of sorts in the late Seventies, the writing seemed to be on the wall for her.</p>
<p>She was nominated for a Grammy but Aretha won that year. Aretha gave her trophy to Esther saying she that she should have won it. Esther died at age 48 due to all sorts of complications related to her drug intake. Here she is with <em>Longing in My Heart</em>.</p>
<p><p class="asset asset-audio at-xid-6a00d8341c85cd53ef016302e29839970d"><a href="http://www.timegoesby.net/files/little-esther---longing-in-my-heart-1.mp3" class="inline-player">♫ Little Esther - Longing in My Heart</a></p>
<p>James Campbell, or as he is more generally known, <strong>LITTLE MILTON</strong>, was born in Inverness. That’s not the place in Scotland; apparently, it’s in Mississippi.</p>
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<p>By the time he was twelve, he was already an accomplished guitarist and was playing on the street. He, along with most guitarists of the time and later, was influenced by T-Bone Walker. While still a teenager he caught the ear of Ike Turner (another prolific ear catcher) who got him a recording session at Sun records.</p>
<p>Later, he recorded for Chess records and that’s not really a surprise. Later still, after the death of Leonard Chess, he recorded for Stax records. So he managed to record for the most influential labels in his field.</p>
<p>Here he is from back in the Sun days with <em>Beggin' My Baby</em>. His guitar playing is not noticeable on this track.</p>
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<p><strong>LITTLE WALTER</strong>, or Marion Walter Jacobs, was the undisputed king of blues harmonica players.</p>
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<p>He was born and bred in Louisiana where he learnt his instrument of choice as well as the guitar. He honed his skills by playing with Sonny Boy Williamson, Honeyboy Edwards, Sunnyland Slim and others. He went to Chicago and found some work playing guitar but he was most in demand playing harmonica.</p>
<p>He further developed his playing style – having the harmonica and microphone cupped in his hands, the mic plugged into a guitar amplifier – when he couldn’t be heard over electric guitars. He played for a long period in the Muddy Waters band.</p>
<p>Here’s Walter singing and playing on <em>Boom Boom (Out Go the Lights)</em>.</p>
<p class="asset asset-audio at-xid-6a00d8341c85cd53ef016763d75cdc970b"><a href="http://www.timegoesby.net/files/little-walter---boom-boom-out-go-the-lights-1.mp3" class="inline-player">♫ Little Walter - Boom Boom (out go the lights)</a></p>
<p>The town of Little River is between Melbourne and Geelong, the state of Victoria’s two biggest cities. It has a population of three or four hundred people and is most notable today for supplying the name for one of this country’s most successful groups, the <strong>LITTLE RIVER BAND</strong>.</p>
<p><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://www.timegoesby.net/.a/6a00d8341c85cd53ef0168e8d7d7e7970c-800wi" alt="Little River Band" title="Little River Band"></div></p>
<p>LRB were really a super group in Australian terms, they contained members of The Twilights, Mississippi, Axiom and Zoot, all of them successful on the Oz music scene. The members had only just got together and were driving from Melbourne to Geelong for a gig and saw the exit sign to Little River and decided that was the name for them.</p>
<p>In the way of these things, after success worldwide the group fragmented and lawsuits and other nasty things followed. Here they are at the top of their game with <em>Long Jumping Jeweller</em>.</p>
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<h2>Saturday, 17 March 2012</h2>
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<h3>INTERESTING STUFF – 17 March 2012</h3>
<p><strong>HILLARY ON WOMEN'S RIGHTS</strong><br />
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave a fine speech on women's rights worldwide last week at end of the Women in the World conference in New York and you can see the <a href="http://www.westernprogressive.com/2012/03/video-hillary-clintons-speech-on-womens-rights-makes-us-wonder-whether-she-is-really-leaving-politic.html">entire 30 minutes here</a> – it is well worth your time.</p>
<p>As chief foreign officer of the U.S., Ms. Clinton usually keeps a careful distance from commenting on domestic politics but this short clip from her speech, given at the height of the commotion over politicians' continuing attacks on women's rights in the U.S., was a terrific moment:</p>
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<p><strong>MERYL STREEP INTRODUCING HILLARY CLINTON</strong><br />
We don't hear too much about what Secretary Clinton is doing. Her kind of work is not the sort that does nor should end up in the press. So it was good to hear actor Meryl Streep's exceptionally good introduction - tribute, really - to Ms. Clinton at the Women of the World conference.</p>
<p>Yes, I know. It's 14 minutes long but if you've got the time, I think you will enjoy it.</p>
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<p><strong>ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA SHUTS DOWN AFTER 244 YEARS</strong><br />
We are living through disruptive times and now, the venerable <a href="http://www.britannica.com/">Encyclopedia Britannica</a> has announced that the 2010 print edition is its last:</p>
<p><blockquote>“'It’s a rite of passage in this new era,' Jorge Cauz, the president of Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc., a company based in Chicago, said in an interview. 'Some people will feel sad about it and nostalgic about it. But we have a better tool now. The Web site is continuously updated, it’s much more expansive and it has multimedia.'”</blockquote>
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<p>Only 4,000 copies of the 32-volume 2010 edition, which weighs in at 129 pounds, have been sold at $1,395. The encyclopedia will continue to be published and updated online where subscriptions cost $70 per year. You can <a href="http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/13/after-244-years-encyclopaedia-britannica-stops-the-presses/">read more here</a>.</p>
<p><strong>KEROUAC'S <em>ON THE ROAD</em></strong><br />
During my beatnik period in the late-1950s, Jack Kerouacs' <em>On the Road</em> was required reading. Since then, in one list, the book is ranked at 55 on the 100 best books of the 20th century and it is a touchstone for the beatnik era.</p>
<p>Although there have been many attempts during the past half century to make a movie of the book, it has never been done – until now. With Frances Ford Coppolla as executive producer, <em>On the Road</em> at last has been filmed. It will be released later this year. Here is the trailer:</p>
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<p>It's a dangerous thing to translate an iconic book to the screen especially when many who are of the cultural period are still alive. It seems to me that they are bound to get it wrong. Or maybe not.</p>
<p><strong>ULYSSES S. GRANT AND AMERICAN JEWS</strong><br />
Did you know this? That during the U.S. Civil War, General Ulysses S. Grant issued Order No. 11 expelling all “Jews as a class” from his war zone? I surely did not know this. Here is a short video from Jonathan Sarna explaining the incident and Grant's later repudiation of his order:</p>
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<p>Jonathan Sarna is a professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University. His book, <a href="http://nextbookpress.com/books/248/"><em>When General Grant Expelled the Jews</em></a>, resurrects this historical event from obscurity. And, you can <a href="http://youtu.be/_yvrxX7r14w">watch an hour-long lecture on the subject</a> that Professor gave at Columbia University last fall.</p>
<p><strong>GOLDMAN SACHS EXECUTIVE EXPLAINS HIS RESIGNATION</strong><br />
In the four years since the worldwide financial collapse, not a single executive of the banks and Wall Street firms who, there is no longer any question, caused the meltdown, have been accused, arrested or prosecuted.</p>
<p>In their own eyes these bankers are, as Goldman Sachs CEO, Lloyd Blankfrein, proudly proclaimed, doing “God's work.” Well, maybe not everyone there thinks so anymore.</p>
<p>Last Wednesday, in an Op-Ed at <em>The New York Times</em>, Greg Smith who was executive director and head of Goldman Sachs' United States equity derivatives business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, explained his resignation:</p>
<blockquote>”Today is my last day at Goldman Sachs. After almost 12 years at the firm — first as a summer intern while at Stanford, then in New York for 10 years, and now in London — I believe I have worked here long enough to understand the trajectory of its culture, its people and its identity. And I can honestly say that the environment now is as toxic and destructive as I have ever seen it...<br /><br />
“It makes me ill how callously people talk about ripping their clients off. Over the last 12 months I have seen five different managing directors refer to their own clients as 'muppets,' sometimes over internal e-mail.”</blockquote>
<p>Mr. Smith's statement is a stunning break from the one percents' stonewall defense. Of course, they are already concocting stories to discredit Smith. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/opinion/why-i-am-leaving-goldman-sachs.html">Go read his whole statement</a>. Nothing there that you didn't not expect, but it's good to hear it from an insider.</p>
<p><strong>GOOGLE EXECUTIVE EXPLAINS WHY HE QUIT</strong><br />
It's been a big week for resignations by executives disenchanted with the culture of the big-time corporations they served. On Tuesday, Google engineering director, James Whittaker, explained why he left. This is only the most colorful part of his explanation:</p>
<blockquote>”Google+ and me, we were simply never meant to be. Truth is I’ve never been much on advertising. I don’t click on ads. When Gmail displays ads based on things I type into my email message it creeps me out. I don’t want my search results to contain the rants of Google+ posters (or Facebook’s or Twitter’s for that matter). When I search for 'London pub walks' I want better than the sponsored suggestion to 'Buy a London pub walk at Wal-Mart.'”</blockquote>
<p>Me too, which I why I switched to Bing as my default search engine some time ago.</p>
<p>It's fascinating to watch these high-powered men stop drinking the corporate Kool-Aid. I wonder if two executive resignations from gigantic corporations is a trend? You can read <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jw_on_tech/archive/2012/03/13/why-i-left-google.aspx">more of Whittaker's explanation here</a>.</p>
<p><strong>THE CARTIER COUGAR ODYSSEY</strong><br />
Yes, it is a commercial – a long one. Yes, it is for a product far beyond the reach of anyone in the 99 percent, which feels way too decadent to bother with during our current economic clime. But it is also breathtakingly gorgeous. Definitely worth a click on that button for full screen viewing.</p>
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<p><strong>PREGNANCY TIMELAPSE VIRAL VIDEO</strong><br />
This was the viral video of the week. A young couple's record of the nine months of their baby's gestation in under two minutes. Wonderful.</p>
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<p><strong>AMAZING SLOW MOTION POLLINATION</strong><br />
TGB reader Larry Beck sent along this beautiful video of the many ways of pollination – all in slomo and taken from a TED talk. Don't miss it.</p>
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<h2>Friday, 16 March 2012</h2>
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<h3>ELDER POETRY INTERLUDE: A Crabby Old Woman</h3>
<p>Today's poem is a repeat, <a href="http://www.timegoesby.net/weblog/2004/09/crabby_old_lady.html ">initially published here</a> during Time Goes By's first six months of existence in 2004. Here is what I wrote about it that year:</p>
<blockquote>”This poem is floating around the Web here and there. According to some, it was found among the "meager possessions" of an old woman who died in the geriatric ward of a Dundee, Scotland hospital, and was later published in the News Magazine of the North Ireland Association for Mental Health. That all may be apocryphal...”</blockquote>
<p>Since then, the poem has been posted all over the internet - sometimes reworked, reworded, edited, truncated and/or embellished beyond recognition. The North Ireland Association for Mental Health has been replaced in the backstory with the names of several other institutions probably because, like me, no one can find any reference that it exists or ever did.</p>
<p>Also since 2006, a word-for-word version with male pronouns replacing the female ones has turned up with the backstory that it was found in the pocket of an old man who died in a hospital in Florida, or a hospital somewhere else or just a hospital with no location given. The website <a href=" http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/c/crabby-old-man.htm">truthorfiction</a> says that story is fiction. The poem, they reported in 2009,</p>
<blockquote>”...was written by Dave Griffith of Fort Worth, Texas. Griffith told TruthOrFiction.com that he wrote the poem more than 20 years ago and that he meant for it to be simple, and too [sic] the point, from youth through old age in his own personal life, high school football, Marines, marriage, the ravages of his own disabilities.”</blockquote>
<p>Which is, undoubtedly, also fiction. If Dave of Fort Worth (other sources say he lives in Florida) wrote about the infirmities of old age 20 years earlier, I doubt he was still with us in 2009. And, if he is still with us, I wonder how he would explain the female version which undoubtedly precedes his.</p>
<p>Even long-time elder videoblogger, geriatric1927, fell for all the cloying sentimentalism of the male backstory, <a href=" http://youtu.be/EOciMaCyJW4">reading it</a> as the introduction to the poem for his YouTube channel in 2009.</p>
<p>I tell you all this, much shortened from what I found online in under 15 minutes, because it's interesting to know this stuff and it amazes me that many people want to take or assign undeserved credit - or defend false credit - for something with no known provenance.</p>
<p>No one knows who wrote this poem, but it doesn't matter. What I said in introduction to it eight years ago stands:</p>
<blockquote>”This is a cry from the heart, whoever wrote it, to not be made invisible in old age.<br /><br />
“It would do us all well to remember this poem when we are frustrated by someone old moving too slowly in front of us and when we find ourselves with an older relative or friend whose mind is perhaps not as quick as it once was.”</blockquote>
<p>Whatever you read elsewhere online, the poem has no title nor does it need one.</p>
<p><em>Author unknown</em></p>
<p>What do you see, nurses, what do you see,<br />
what are you thinking when you're looking at me?<br />
A crabby old woman, not very wise,<br />
uncertain of habit, with faraway eyes.<br /><br />
Who dribbles her food and makes no reply<br />
when you say in a loud voice, "I do wish you'd try!"<br />
Who seems not to notice the things that you do,<br />
and forever is losing a stocking or shoe.<br /><br />
Who, resisting or not, lets you do as you will<br />
with bathing and feeding, the long day to fill.<br />
Is that what you're thinking? Is that what you see?<br />
Then open your eyes, nurse; you're not looking at me.<br /><br />
I'll tell you who I am as I sit here so still,<br />
as I do at your bidding, as I eat at your will.<br />
I'm a small child of ten with a father and mother,<br />
brothers and sisters, who love one another.<br /><br />
A young girl of sixteen, with wings on her feet,<br />
dreaming that soon now a lover she'll meet.<br />
A bride soon at twenty - my heart gives a leap,<br />
remembering the vows that I promised to keep.<br /><br />
At twenty-five now, I have young of my own<br />
who need me to guide and a secure happy home.<br />
A woman of thirty, my young now grown fast,<br />
bound to each other with ties that should last.<br /><br />
At forty my young sons have grown and are gone,<br />
but my man's beside me to see I don't mourn.<br />
At fifty once more babies play round my knee,<br />
again we know children, my loved one and me.<br /><br />
Dark days are upon me, my husband is dead;<br />
I look at the future, I shudder with dread.<br />
For my young are all rearing young of their own,<br />
and I think of the years and the love that I've known.<br /><br />
I'm now an old woman and nature is cruel;<br />
'tis jest to make old age look like a fool.<br />
The body, it crumbles, grace and vigor depart,<br />
there is now a stone where I once had a heart.<br /><br />
But inside this old carcass a young girl still dwells,<br />
and now and again my battered heart swells.<br />
I remember the joys, I remember the pain,<br />
and I'm loving and living life over again.<br /><br />
I think of the years - all too few, gone too fast<br />
and accept the stark fact that nothing can last.<br />
So open your eyes, nurses, open and see,<br />
not a crabby old woman; look closer - see ME!</p>
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<p><strong><em>At The Elder Storytelling Place today, Steve Kemp: <a href="http://www.timegoesby.net/elderstorytelling/2012/03/from-devil-pup-a-work-in-progress.html">From Devil Pup – a work in progress</a></em></strong></p>
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<h2>Thursday, 15 March 2012</h2>
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<h3>Elder Shame and Ego</h3>
<p><img src="http://www.timegoesby.net/weblog/images/category_bug_culture.gif" border="0" height="20" width="75" /> Recently, a friend who is in our age group – about 73 now – dislocated his shoulder. It affected some nerves in his hand and fingers and recovery, even with diligent rehab exercises, is slow. One of the effects is that for a time, he had difficulty tying his shoes.</p>
<p>He could do it, but it was slow-going involving several tries and could take up to five or ten minutes. Although he has come to know some of the young regulars at his gym who are professional trainers and who show him how to get the most from his workout, he told me he was certainly not going to ask any of them for help tying his shoes.
<p>We broke into rueful laughter – instant communion between two old farts who understood intuitively that this was equally ridiculous and understandable.</p>
<p>Ridiculous because we're in our 70s, for gawd's sake - anyone can see we are old and shit happens at our age. Understandable because admitting our infirmities diminishes us in the eyes of younger people - and ourselves, a thought that circles us right back to ridiculous.</p>
<p>In his important book, <em>What Are Old People For?</em>, Dr. Bill Thomas writes:</p>
<blockquote>“We tremble before the loss of function that defines the edge of our social world. There is a calamity, nearly as fearsome as death itself, which is ready to claim those who wander off the path of adulthood.<br /><br />
“Old age threatens us with social death, a banishment from our accustomed place in society.”</blockquote>
<p>So, the shame we feel lies in failing to live up to requirements of a culture that bestows power, influence and prestige on active adults who project youthfulness or can, at least, affect its illusion. Everyone else is ignored, dismissed, made invisible.</p>
<p>No wonder my friend was loath to ask, as I would be in the same situation, for help with his shoes. Because we know society has no tolerance or place for the decline of age, we cling to such shreds of ego for as long as possible.</p>
<p>Not that I much like myself for it.</p>
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<p><strong><em>At The Elder Storytelling Place today, Ellen Younkins: <a href="http://www.timegoesby.net/elderstorytelling/2012/03/lost-love.html">Lost Love</a></em></strong></p>
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<h2>Wednesday, 14 March 2012</h2>
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<h3>Introducing the TGB Elderlaw Attorney – Orrin Onken</h3>
<p><img alt="category_bug_elderlaw" src="http://www.timegoesby.net/weblog/category_bug_elderlaw2.gif" width="191" height="20" border="0" height="20" width="250" /> I would like you to meet someone today. In time, you will come to know him well but first, let me explain.
<p>For many years – yes, years – I have tried to add an elderlaw attorney to the roster of Time Goes By contributors. You would be surprised how hard it is to find someone in that world who even knows what a blog is, let alone cares or wants to help elders understand the many legal questions that come up in old age.</p>
<p>I worked at it in fits and starts, giving up in frustration for long periods when, for example, someone who seemed like a good fit couldn't write an English sentence a non-lawyer could understand.</p>
<p>Or, more commonly, I'd throw up my hands in disgust when attorneys I contacted, some recommended by their colleagues, couldn't be bothered to respond to my queries. Not even a polite “no, thank you” in some cases until I followed up a couple of times.</p>
<p>Organizations of attorneys showed little interest. One wanted to provide us with articles of canned generalities more suitable to sales brochures than education and information.</p>
<p>It was a disappointing project for a long time and then one day Orrin Onken, located right here in Oregon, showed up on my screen.</p>
<p>At the basic level, he has all the appropriate professional credentials – and more: After college, he attended Willamette University College of Law where he was editor-in-chief of the law review, graduating <em>cum laude</em> in 1982.</p>
<p>He is a current member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, the Oregon Gerontological Association, the Guardian/Conservator Association of Oregon, the Oregon Mediation Association and the Elder Law Section of the Oregon State Bar.</p>
<p>Orrin occasionally writes about elderlaw for <a href=" http://blog.orolaw.com/">a blog he keeps here</a> and there is more about <a href="http://orolaw.com/index.html">his law practice at this website</a>. You can see in both places that the law has not corrupted his ability to write in English. In fact, Orrin also writes novels. I'll let him tell you about that himself:</p>
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<p>There is another thing you should know about Orrin. “I may be the only practicing lawyer in the state of Oregon,” he writes, “to have been disbarred and readmitted to the Oregon State Bar.”</p>
<p>It was serious business that got Orrin disbarred – taking client funds. More than a decade later, he applied for reinstatement and at first, he seemed to have convinced the powers-that-be of his renewed good character:</p>
<blockquote>“The Applicant has maintained complete responsibility for the thefts,” wrote the chairman of the trial panel.<br /><br />
“The Applicant has been faithful to his sobriety, and has strengthened his relationships with his family, friends and co-workers. The evidence of reformation of character is not only clear and convincing, it is substantial and impressive in the complete reversal of habits that consumed the Applicant for years.”</blockquote>
<p>That sounds like a win to me. But it wasn't. It took another year of additional legal proceedings until Orrin was readmitted to the Oregon bar in 2003. If you are interested in the details, you can <a href="http://www.loris.net/onken/index.html">read more here</a>. Orrin has been in recovery now for 20 years.</p>
<p>So with Orrin's professional elderlaw experience, his writing skills and 'tude on his blog, his openness about being disbarred further convinced me I had found the right person.</p>
<p>Then I discovered one more thing that made finding Orrin feel like a match for us.</p>
<p>At about the time I was beginning to vaguely formulate the idea for this blog, Orrin wrote and published his <a href="http://www.orolaw.com/pledge.html">Older American's Pledge</a>. He could have been reading my mind:</p>
<p>• We will not be judged by the values of youth.</p>
<p>• We will not be expelled from work or play.</p>
<p>• We will not equate aging with illness.</p>
<p>• We will not be a subject matter for experts.</p>
<p>• We will not be the objects of condescension or ridicule.</p>
<p>• We will not be a social or economic problem.</p>
<p>• We will not be trivialized.</p>
<p>• We will not be docile.</p>
<p>• We will not be interned.</p>
<p>• We will treat our later decades as a unique stage of human development.</p>
<p>• We will grow and learn.</p>
<p>• We will integrate our social, our psychological and our spiritual lives.</p>
<p>• We will take care of our own.</p>
<p>• We will cooperate across generations to create a better world.</p>
<p>• We will nurture and guide the young.</p>
<p>• We will contribute according to our abilities.</p>
<p>Nice, huh?</p>
<p>Twice a month, Orrin will write about legal issues elders should know about. It is amazing how much new legal stuff there is to learn when we get old: wills, living wills, trusts, guardianships, powers of attorney, advance directives, tax planning, long term care, patient rights, elder abuse, employment discrimination, a whole lot more and even pet trusts.</p>
<p>But today, it's your turn. To give us a sense of where to begin, let Orrin know in the comments below what legal information you are interested in knowing about and discussing here. IMPORTANT: Keep in mind that Orrin cannot answer questions about your personal legal circumstances.</p>
<p>So please welcome Orrin Onken to the Time Goes By tribe. I am so pleased to have found him and even better, that he has agreed to take on this assignment.</p>
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<p><strong><em>At The Elder Storytelling Place today, Mark Sherman: <a href="http://www.timegoesby.net/elderstorytelling/2012/03/how-to-be-an-aging-parent.html">How to be an Aging Parent</a></em></strong></p>
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<h2>Tuesday, 13 March 2012</h2>
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<p><img alt="category_bug_journal2.gif" src="http://www.timegoesby.net/weblog/images/category_bug_journal2.gif" width="84" border="0" height="20"> It is late Monday morning as I write this and for hours now, I would have been better off with a Dixie cup and a string than the internet. Still would be. It has been taking up to ten minutes for each and every web page to load – if they ever load at all.</p>
<p>I could check around and see if it's the internet itself or my provider, but my teeth are already on edge and I just want get away from it all. Still, I want you have something here on Tuesday but it needs to be simple and easy to prepare.</p>
<p>Some time ago, our inimitable musicologist, Peter Tibbles, who writes the Sunday Elder Music column, sent me a whole batch of individual, uncategorized musical selections to use one-at-a-time on days when I have something better to do than research and/or write. This is one of those days.</p>
<p>They slipped my mind for a long time but today (Monday), in desperation to finish up the blog for Tuesday so I can get away from the becalmed web, I managed to recall Peter's kindness.
<p>So here, from Peter, is a tune you might recall from you childhood: </em>Dear Hearts and Gentle People</em> from Bing Crosby. Pop music sure was different in those days.</p>
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<p><strong><em>At The Elder Storytelling Place today, Marcy Belson: <a href="http://www.timegoesby.net/elderstorytelling/2012/03/leisure-suits-and-mini-skirts.html">Leisure Suits and Mini Skirts</a></em></strong></p>
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<h2>Monday, 12 March 2012</h2>
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<h3>Elders and Voter Suppression</h3>
<p><img src="http://www.timegoesby.net/weblog/images/category_bug_culture.gif" border="0" height="20" width="75" /> Are you registered to vote? Are you sure?</p>
<p>Using a pretext of widespread voter fraud, Republicans in the 50 states have been on tear creating an array of new, restrictive voter ID legislation that makes it difficult, expensive and, in some cases, impossible to register and/or vote in some states.</p>
<p>In <a href="http://www.brennancenter.org/content/resource/voting_law_changes_in_2012#summ">an analysis</a> of just 19 of these new laws and two executive actions passed in only 14 states, the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law concludes:</p>
<blockquote>“These new laws could make it significantly harder for more than five million eligible voters to cast ballots in 2012.<br /><br />
“The states that have already cut back on voting rights will provide 171 electoral votes in 2012 – 63 percent of the 270 needed to win the presidency.”</blockquote>
<p>(Some say the number of voters these laws would disenfranchise is as high as 21 million.)</p>
<p>Before I get into the weeds on this, you should know up front that the Republican claim of voter fraud is hollow. It is so rare that the Brennan Center notes, “one is more likely to be struck by lightning than to commit voter fraud.”</p>
<p>There are two exhaustive reports of the Brennan Center's investigations into the myth of voter fraud <a href="http://www.truthaboutfraud.org/pdf/CrawfordAllegations.pdf">here</a> and <a href="http://www.truthaboutfraud.org/pdf/TruthAboutVoterFraud.pdf">here</a> (both pdfs].</p>
<p>So there is no reason for these Republican-backed laws except to restrict and repress voting.</p>
<p>How is that being done? Through a combination of methods. This <a href="http://www.ncsl.org/legislatures-elections/elections/voter-id-state-requirements.aspx#2012">from National Conference of State Legislatures website</a>. (Keep in mind that legislation is being passed, blocked, introduced, reintroduced, challenged in court, etc. at such a pace that the numbers change almost daily.)</p>
<blockquote>"Thirty-one states require all voters to show ID before voting at the polls. In 15 of these, the ID must include a photo of the voter; in the remaining 16, non-photo forms of ID are acceptable.”</blockquote>
<p>You might say requiring a government-issued photo ID to vote is not unreasonable and you might be correct. That is, until you know that at about 11 percent of Americans overall do not have photo IDs and that number shoots up to 25 percent among blacks.</p>
<p>Lack of photo ID – most commonly, a drivers license - is spread disproportionately among the poor, people of color, immigrants and – ahem, elders.</p>
<p>Some states with new ID requirements to vote now issue non-driving IDs, but it is not easy for people to gather the documents, such as birth certificates, marriage licenses, divorce decrees, etc. and there are always fees for copies of them. Plus, some elders, born at home or whose births were attended by midwives, have no birth certificates.</p>
<p>And women, if you live in one of these states, watch out when you apply for a non-driving ID. If you changed your name when you married and it, therefore, does not match the name on your birth certificate, be prepared to go through many hoops to prove that you, Mary Jones, are the same person as Mary Smith before your wedding day.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/10/26/353712/tennessee-veteran-voter-id-pay/">website thinkprogress reported</a> last fall on how these new restrictions are working out for some elders they spoke with in Tennessee:</p>
<blockquote>”As predicted, the law is disenfranchising the poor, elderly, and minority voters, including a 96-year-old African-American woman, a 91-year old woman, and now, a 86-year old veteran.”<br /><br />
"Under the law, any resident without a photo ID is supposed to get one free of charge. But when [Darwin] Spinks asked for an ID, he was told he had to pay an $8 fee...He was sent from one line to another to have a picture taken, then was charged.<br /><br />
“I said, ‘You mean I’ve got to pay again?’ She says, ‘Yes,’” explained Spinks.”</blockquote>
<p>So even when the state does not charge to issue the ID itself, it finds other fees to impose, violating the Constitutional ban on poll taxes.</p>
<p>There have also been accusations that in some Republican-controlled states, <p>Departments of Motor Vehicles have been closed down in minority neighborhoods requiring people to travel long distances to get their new IDs.</p>
<p>And, apparently, not all government IDs are created equal. On Super Tuesday last week, an 86-year-old World War II veteran who has voted in his community all his life was <a href="http://www.cleveland.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/03/portage_county_veteran_86_turn.html">denied his right to vote</a> because his VA identification did not meet Ohio's restrictive requirements. Paul Carroll was</p>
<blockquote>“...turned away from a polling place this morning because his driver’s license had expired in January and his new Veterans Affairs ID did not include his home address.<br /><br />
“'My beef is that I had to pay a driver to take me up there because I don’t walk so well and have to use this cane and now I can’t even vote,' [said Carroll].”</blockquote>
<p>Tennessee voting was back in the news again last week when former U.S. Congressman, Lincoln Davis, was denied his right to vote on Super Tuesday in the precinct where he has voted since 1964. He spoke about the incident last week with Keith Obermann:</p>
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<p>In addition to purging voter rolls without telling residents, as happened to Representative Davis, and requiring a photo ID while making it difficult and/or expensive to get one, states have changed requirements for absentee voting, cut back on length of time for early voting and imposed restrictive registration procedures. Maine, for example, has repealed election day registration.</p>
<p>In some cases, students are no longer allowed to vote in the town where they attend college which means, mostly, they can no longer vote.</p>
<p>Vermont Independent Senator Bernie Sanders discussed this issue not long ago with Rachel Maddow.</p>
<p>He points out a double political whammy – that just now when the <em>Citizens United</em> decision is allowing the haves of our nation to buy candidates and elections, simultaneous voter suppression efforts are depriving the have-nots (especially those who might disagree with the haves) of their much smaller right to be heard at the ballot box:</p>
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<p>Voting rights are being attacked relentlessly in nearly every state generating a huge amount of reporting. Thinkprogress, which is one place is doing a good job of keeping up, has dozens of stories from around the nation on <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/?s=voter+suppression">their website</a>. Update the list by entering “voter suppression” in the site's search box.</p>
<p>This is like the contraception issue, isn't it? We thought birth control was settled in the 1960s. Now they – mostly Republicans – want to change that. We thought the vote was settled with the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Now they - Republicans – want to disenfranchise millions of Americans.</p>
<p>And they are succeeding.
<p>So. Be sure to let your state representatives know where you stand on the voting rights issue and most important:</p>
<p>• Check now that you are registered to vote in your state/town<br /><br />
• Check that you are still registered in the precinct where you believe you should vote<br /><br />
• Check that you have all the required credentials to vote<br /><br />
• If you need a non-driving ID, start now to meet the requirements to obtain one</p>
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<p><strong><em>At The Elder Storytelling Place today, Nancy Leitz: <a href="http://www.timegoesby.net/elderstorytelling/2012/03/jimmy.html">Jimmy</a></em></strong></p>
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