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Appreciation Music

It’s New Year’s Day. Here’s why the past is making me hopeful for the future.

They have coexisted uneasily in the same country for centuries. They don’t often mix, but you can find their respective communities in close proximity to each other. They identify as different ethnicities with all that entails. Each group has its own dialect, religious tradition, and cultural heritage. These differences produce different visions of the country […]

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Christmas Favorites Music

This is my list of 12 songs of Christmas. What’s yours?

You might assume from the name of this blog that my favorite part of the holiday season is all the lights. That’s a perfectly reasonable guess, but it happens to be wrong. Instead, my favorite part of the holiday season is the music. Like my affinity for light bulbs, my love of Christmas music drives […]