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  <div class="message"><p><span class="font_large">A couple of songbooks: <b>Sam Henry’s Songs of the People</b> <i>(University of Georgia Press)</i> and <b>Leabhar Mór na nAmhrán</b> <i>(Cló Iar Chonnacht). </i></span></p>
<p><img src="//images.zoogletools.com/u/35514/6788c5e4c73157c0cd8eab28e04cd1fee2f44014/small/sam-henry.jpg?1446584761" class="size_s justify_left border_" /><span class="font_large">T</span><span class="font_regular">he</span> first of these books I had a heck of a time getting hold of. It’s a famous collection — definitive, even — but like other definitive collections, it has spent a lot of time out of print. For several years I’d kept an eye out on Amazon and Abe Books, hoping to acquire a good used copy. I saw prices as high as $500. It was starting to look a little hopeless. And then in 2010 The University of Georgia Press re-issued the book in paperback at a much more reasonable price of closer to $30. </p>
<p>The blurb on the book gives you an idea of just why I was so delighted to get my own copy:     </p>
<p><i>“The story of Ireland — its graces and shortcomings, triumphs and sorrows — is told by ballads, dirges, and humorous songs of its common people. Music is a direct and powerful expression of Irish folk culture and an aspect of Irish life beloved throughout the rest of the world.</i></p>
<p><i>Incredibly, the largest single gathering of Irish folk songs had been almost inaccessible because, originally newspaper based, it was available in only three libraries, in Belfast, Dublin, and Washington D.C. </i></p>
<p><i>Sam Henry’s Songs of the People makes the music available to a wider audience than the collector ever imagined. Comprising nearly 690 selections, this thoroughly annotated and indexed collection is a treasure for anyone who performs, composes, studies, collects, or simply enjoys folk music. It is valuable as an outstanding record of Irish folk songs before World War II, demonstrating the historical ties between Irish and Southern folk culture and the tremendous Irish influence on American folk music. </i></p>
<p><i>In addition to the songs themselves and their original commentary, Sam Henry’s Songs of the People includes a glossary, bibliography, discography, index of titles and first lines, melodic index, index of the original sources of the songs and information about them, geographical index of sources, and three appendixes related to the original song series in the Northern Constitution (a weekly newspaper)”. </i></p>
<p>Sam Henry (1870-1952) was a civil servant in Northern Ireland. An amateur folklorist, entomologist, antiquarian and ornithologist — and a pretty decent fiddler — he collected songs both through his own efforts  and through his volunteer post as Song Editor of <em>The Northern Constitution</em>, a weekly newspaper published in the provincial town of Coleraine. The series, <i>Songs of the People</i>, ran from November 1923 to 1939 and, despite Henry’s efforts to have the collection printed in book form, for a long time it existed only in document form and in only three libraries (as mentioned above). In 1961 Gale Huntington, an American song collector, became aware of the collection and resolved to see it published. </p>
<p>The songs are arranged by theme — just as those in <em>The Voice of the People</em> CD anthology are  — and are richly notated. A lovely touch (for me) is the fact that the range is clearly marked and the type of key indicated — a gapped scale or a modal scale are really easy to spot. Variations of melody or words are noted and, in all, the whole thing is a delight. </p>
<p><img src="//images.zoogletools.com/u/35514/dab2c254fc3d7c66c5f660ebb919602879222382/small/leabharmoramhran-cover-300-481-c1.jpg?1446584856" class="size_s justify_left border_none" alt="" />On the other hand, <i>Leabhar Mór na nAmhrán (The Big Book of Songs)</i> was a real disappointment to me. It’s a huge collection of songs in the Irish language. I’ll not belabor my frustrations but note just a couple of them. First, there’s not a note of music in this book. If you want to find the melody to any of these songs you’ll need to purchase the CD on which it appears — a CD conveniently published by the publishers of the book. I had hoped not only for tunes to songs but to see alternative melodies to songs. This happens quite a lot with Irish song; the same song may be sung to a number of different tunes. But there’s not a jot. And why not, I wonder? Is there some suspicion in traditional circles of reading music? Granted, the melody of a song can have variations even from verse to verse, but why not give us the gist? (<i>Ceolta Gael </i> and <i>Ceolta Gael 2</i> are a couple of slim volumes that do just this, and I recommend them highly). So, a song book without music … </p>
<p>The other frustration is actually the corollary of the first. There are many lyrical versions of the old songs: I can think of several versions of the words to An Bunnán Bui. But what we get is one version, the version of the person who recorded it for Cló Iar Chonnacht. I looked up some songs I know, to see if there were any verses I was missing. Most of what I looked up I couldn’t find in the book. These were well-know songs I wanted to consult. </p>
<p>So, there are a lot of songs — over 400 — many are well-known. But all are without the music, they’re not much use to anyone who wants to sing them. Which is kind of the point of songs. So if you’re a singer, go with Sam Henry! </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><strong><em>Gretchen Rubin </em></strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Crown 2015 320 pp. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">We chatted over a couple of pints and, as I surmised, he was an old retired soldier who had last served in India. He had some great stories and a low opinion of today’s ‘yoof’ (youth)— though he did mention a couple of times that he thought I was “all right”. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Somewhere in the conversation he mentioned that the best thing he had learned in the army was the habit of making his bed every morning. “You should try it” he said “it helps get you started the right way for the rest of the day. An’ do it proper: it doesn’t count unless you do it proper”. And he was right. It was a couple of years before I tried it. I’d been laid off my job at the car factory and the days had turned into tedious, formless boredom. So I started trying to impose a routine and making my bed when I got up was the first part of that routine. The simple process of taking care of just one basic thing each day brought a whole new energy and structure to life. It’s been my habit ever since. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Which brings me, in a round about way, to this month’s book review — Better Than Before by Gretchen Rubin. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">When you’re your own boss it’s absolutely crucial that you be disciplined about your working habits. It’s far too easy to put things off, to prioritize the wrong things or do far more than is required by doing ‘busy’ work for fear of not getting things done. Over the years I used tricks, treats, punishments and will-power to keep myself in line. Some of it worked, some of it failed — sometimes I knew why, sometimes not. So when I saw this book advertised on Facebook (now, there’s a habit I need to rein in), I was curious and a got myself a copy.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">It’s a pretty smart book. First of all, it recognizes that that not all methods work for everyone. Some people are more self-motivated than others, some will only adopt a habit if it makes the most sense to them. Some people like to please others, some are rebels and resist expectations. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">After this she lists some techniques that may help to change old or establish new habits depending, of course, on your personality — there’s not much point in encouraging a rebellious type to de-clutter their office — especially if they like working in a cluttered office. It also, though, allows for loopholes — lapses that will happen are prevented from derailing an otherwise sound routine. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">There’s a lot of good and helpful information in this book. It’s well-reasoned, clearly laid out and realistic about what is likely to work or not. As with some of these types of book, there are a lot of anecdotal examples as well as comments that readers left on the author’s blog, but these do help to add insight to ideas and are not just ‘filler’. The book has thrown light on some of my failed routines and also shown me why my more successful ones worked. And I think it will make a great ‘how-to’ book for future habits — I’m looking forward to it.</p></div>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">“There used to be, and may still be, a program on BBC 1 television in England called “Nationwide”. Critics regard it as having been one of the most stultifyingly boring television programs ever. I watched it religiously. At a certain point in the national show there would be a slot for local news and features. One evening, while sitting in my flat in Bedford, Anglia Television presented Jake Thackray singing Sister Josephine. That was in 1971 and I’ve wanted to sing this song ever since.” It now looks as if I’ll be singing it forever — and that’s all right with me. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Jake Thackray was born in Yorkshire in 1938 and died in Monmouth, Wales in 2002. He, at one point, considered a life in the priesthood and for a while was a school teacher. He taught in France for a while — he was a French speaker — and while there, became enamored of the French chanson style. His big hero was the French songwriter Georges Brassens. But mostly he worked as a performer. He was a regular on English television and performed all around the country. I saw him at The Dukes Playhouse in Lancaster, England in 1978 (shortly before I came to the U.S.) and it was one of the most enjoyable shows I’ve ever seen. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">He was a man of contradictions. A wonderful performer who grew to hate performing. A witty and very funny man who delivered his songs and patter in an almost dour, lugubrious monotone. A man of few words who was a skilled wordsmith. He was a man of some refinement who also wrote a number of bawdy songs that, by today’s standards, are pretty cringe-worthy. And while he’s been accused of sexism and misogyny, songs such as <em>The Hair of the Widow of Bridlington</em> are most definitely feminist in their tone. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">The bulk of his songs are humorous but songs such as <em>The Poor Sod</em> or <em>Old Molly Metcalfe</em> are most decidedly unfunny. <em>The Remembrance</em> is chilling indictment of war and <em>The Bull</em> is all about, well … bull. And <em>Our Dog</em> is probably my all-time favorite song about dogs. His <em>Remember Bethlehem</em> may be my favorite Christmas song and it is, of course, part of our Christmas/Holiday show. The song is a wonderfully personal re-imagining of the Nativity story — almost as if it had happened in Jake’s native Yorkshire. So, while it may seem a little odd or contradictory that the best liked song of an Irish band should be one written by an Englishman whose chief influence was French song, think of it instead as just another of those Jake Thackray contradictions — one of the inconsistencies that make life so interesting. </p></div>
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I still count my "Some Foreign Land" CD - autographed by all of you at the time - as one of my treasures.<br><br>In 1999, I remarried and my wife and I moved to Bosnia, where I had a job with the United Nations. We lived in small city named Goražde. My wife, Linda,  became the Country Director for GOAL Ireland - Balkans. GOAL is an international humanitarian organization headquartered in Dún Laoghaire. I eventually went to work for GOAL myself, working for my wife. She supervised reconstruction and reconciliation projects in southeast Bosnia.<br> <br>In 2001, Linda found a puppy foraging in the garbage outside her office. It was alone, hungry, injured, probably by being attacked by other stray dogs. We weren't "dog people" at the time.  I didn't want her to name the puppy because I had no intention of keeping it. But, in Bosnian language, people often refer to young children, young goats, sheep, kittens and puppies as "mali" (Molly) - which simply means "small" or "little one." So Molly became the pups name while we treated her injuries, got her fattened up and back to health before, as we planned, we took it out to a village where a family had agreed to take her as a farm dog.<br> <br>For the next few weeks after we took her in, Molly worked her way into Linda's heart. She liked to be held as a baby and would groan when you rubbed her tummy. I, on the other hand remained very practical about it. We lived and worked in a part of the country from which we could have to evacuate quickly due to civil or military violence and we couldn't be weighed down by a dog, could we?!<br><br>On the night before we were to resettle Molly with the villagers, I was sitting out in the garden with her groaning on my lap. I had my “Saint Bartholomew's Feast” CD playing and "Silas" came up. Holding little Molly and listening to "Silas" many times over, I was soon overcome with sadness about sending Molly off. I carried her into our war damaged flat and played "Silas" for Linda. We both tearfully agreed: we had to keep Molly and take care of her.<br><br>Molly changed our lives. She traveled the world with us. Serbia, Kosovo, Central America,  all over the United States. What we learned about dogs - we learned from her. Because of her, we became "dog people," eventually taking in a street dog from Honduras and a lab from a shelter in Oregon. <br>More importantly, not only did we fall in love with Molly, but all over the world we were able to take notice of the universal connection dogs have with people, and the potential which that human-canine bond offers as a therapeutic, educational, healing tool. <br>So, in 2005, after I returned to the States from a short posting in Afghanistan, we started "Pawsitive Perspectives Assistance Dogs (PawPADs), a nonprofit,  training service dogs for people with physical mobility disabilities. Our programs give volunteers, veterans, inmates, and at-risk youth the opportunity to help raise and train the dogs to be placed with persons with physical disabilities and have recently started placements of diabetic alert dogs and autism support dogs.<br> <br>The point of my story is this: none of this would have been if we had not let ourselves be taken in by Molly. We credit her for inspiring PawPADs and I credit “Silas” for making Molly’s life with us possible.<br> <br>The impact these dogs have on lives spreads out like the waves from a stone in a pond:<br>Jeremy - ” Rio, is a lifeline for our family.  He provides assistance, permanent companionship, and a tie to reality.  As much as we depend on <br>them, he depends on us.”<br>Andrea’ – “Sage has changed my life!   He is my diabetic alert dog and quite frankly the smartest dog I have ever known.  His job is to alert me when my blood sugars are out of range.  This means my glucose level could be low or high and he will pick this up before I do.  In the past I had 4 episodes that I was unconscious  and the ambulance needed to be called due to my diabetes.  Sage prevents this from happening.   He has already proven his worth a thousand times over.”<br>Patrick Zeigler (a wounded warrior shot 4 times in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, leaving him partially paralyzed): "Ranger has given me back my independence, he is a wonderful companion. With Ranger in our home, Jessica has more free time to spend with our son and her family and friends. And now I can go for a walk with Ranger knowing that I am safe. If I fall, he can help me get up or go for help if I am hurt." Patrick talks of Ranger's intuition that has developed, "It seems that if I just look at something across the room Ranger seems to know what I want and get it for me. It is amazing."<br> <br>Anyway, I’ve wanted to share this with you for a long time, and as Molly passed away last week, I thought it was about time to tell you that your music had a part in creating a legacy that will continue a long time.<br> <br> <br>Randy Patrick<br>Director of Pawsitive Perspectives Assistance Dogs<br>Savage, MN</p></div>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(50, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(50, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">By Robert Macfarlane</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(50, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(50, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Illustrated. 433 pp. Viking.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(50, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(50, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 16px;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(50, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(50, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">I am lucky enough to live in Aurora, CO, on the eastern side of the Denver metroplex. I know full well that some from more fashionable parts of town sometimes scoff at our burg and think it a backwater. Still, it has some of the best eating and friendliest people around and for me there’s a bonus in the fact that just a 10 minute walk from my house I can share the day with hawks and eagles, egrets and pelicans, coypu, deer and beaver, in some lovely wild scenery.  Coincidentally or not, I have recently been reading quite a bit about the natural world. So in this month’s newsletter we have not one but three, albeit short, book reviews. All three happen to have another book at their core and all involve human interaction with the natural world.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">The first of these is <i>The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot </i>by Robert Macfarlane. It was given to me by an old, friend, Cathy Hull, and it’s one of my all-time favorite books. On one level it’s a travelogue of walks taken in England and Scotland and further afield in China, Spain, the Himalayas — but it’s as much an internal journey as an external one. Central to the narrative and spirit of the book is the work of the Anglo-Welsh poet and author, Edward Thomas. Written in taut prose that is nonetheless rich and poetic, the book charts inner and outer journeys. It is abundant with observations on geology, history, plant and animal life, architecture,  and insightful ruminations on the human being and our place in the natural world. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">While the book recounts what one would think of as a solitary experience, it teems with fascinating people living lives of connection and passion. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">This is a book than can be profitably dipped into at any time and one that will stay with you a long time.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(50, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(50, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">By Helen Macdonald</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(50, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(50, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">300 pp. Grove Press.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Another book that was recommended to me by Cathy was <i>H is for Hawk</i>. This book recently won the Costa Prize and it, too, is a treasure. It’s a fiercely honest account of Helen Macdonald’s coming to terms with her father’s death and how she worked through her grief by training a goshawk — a notoriously difficult bird to bend to one’s will. The ruling spirit of this book is an earlier book, <i>The Goshawk</i> by  T.H. White (<i>The Once and Future King</i> is his most famous book). I read <i>The Goshawk</i> many years ago — it was one of the few books I brought with me when I moved to the US — and it was a book that captivated me, as it did the author of this book. There are no trite solutions in this book and no myths of bonding with a wild animal. It is, rather, a book of deep acceptance of the way things are and how those who have a deep history in a place are perhaps the most fortunate among us. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(50, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(50, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">By James Rebanks</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(50, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(50, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Illustrated. 293 pages. Flatiron Books.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">On that theme, I come to a third book: <i>A Shepherd’s Life</i> by James Rebanks. This book, too, was inspired by another. In this case it was <i>A Shepherd’s Life</i> by W.H. Hudson (1910). </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Rebanks was born and raised on a sheep farm in the English Lake District and his school career was a disaster. He was written off as a failure and was happy to be thought so, but he changed his mind about reading and learning when he came across and read Hudson’s book. Thrilled to find “people like us” therein, he acquired the habit of reading voraciously, and attended night school. On the urging of a teacher, he applied to Oxford University and was accepted. At no point, though, does he ever think about permanently leaving the fells and the sheep and the old way of life. When he finishes at Oxford, he returns to his home and former life.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">The book recounts a year in the life of a shepherd — the joys and frustrations, the beauty and the misery and the unsentimental pride in having deep roots in a place and pride in one’s work. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">The prose is … well, a little <i>prosey</i> at times, but is equally poetic and moving at others. It reads easily and eloquently and there’s a kind of matter-of-factness about it that’s quite refreshing if, at times, perhaps a little disingenuous. His recounting of his disastrous school career and his later triumphant acceptance by Oxford feels a little glossed over and not feel quite like full disclosure. And his insistence with his children that things be done the proper way, feels like there might be a tyrant in the making. It is, as his four-year-old daughter says, “all about the sheep”. Still, it’s a remarkable book and a timely one. While there is evidence that many of the old ways of life and living are making a comeback among younger generations, many communities are under siege by the modern world as old values and traditions are threatened.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">The recipe this month is an uncomplicated affair and all the better for it. It could be a vegan meal if one left out the parmesan and usually I do. I don’t think it needs the cheese but it doesn’t suffer from its addition, either. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">I got this from a cookbook called Paradiso Seasons by Dennis Cotter. <a href="http://www.cafeparadiso.ie"><span style="color: rgb(4, 51, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 51, 255);">Cafe Paradiso</span></a> is a renowned vegetarian restaurant in Cork and though Cotter is something of a wizard in the kitchen this <a href="http://www.cafeparadiso.ie/recipes"><span style="color: rgb(4, 51, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 51, 255);">recipe</span></a> was put together by his wife and it’s winner. It’s easy to make, unfussy and thoroughly tasty. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">I make my own pasta — it’s easier than I feared it would be and, though it takes a bit longer to make, it takes less time to cook. In any case, try to time the cooking of the pasta with the arrival of the lemon/garbanzo sauce</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-indent: -36px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">        1/4 cup <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/olive_oil">olive oil</a></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-indent: -36px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">        zest of one lemon, sliced into thin pieces</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><b>    </b>Put water on to boil for pasta. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">It’s one of those books that’s very easy to read on the surface, full of vivid descriptions and pithy observations. It has allusions to any number of books and is full of wit and cheerful erudition. It’s  funny, engaging and at the same time it’s both deeply sad and hugely hopeful. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Beneath a fairly straightforward story of a man who seems “doomed” (as he says in his own words) to “fail at everything I try”, a much richer story is being told of what it means to be a success, of the question of what is a valid way to live one’s life. Metaphors of rain and water and air, of diving and soaring, run through the book and the omnipresent river Shannon is central to the story. The epigraph in the front of the book is from Ted Hughes: “Everything is on its way to the river” and therein lies the heart of the story. There is an air of other-worldliness that turns the book into a sort of allegory. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">From this beginning she tells her father’s story, not so much to find him — as the dust jacket says — as to present him in a richer reality than his apparent failures. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">A lone figure, Virgil Swain has spent his life, like his father and grandfather before him, trying to live up the The Impossible Standard of the Swains. At a pivotal point in his life, he finds a spot by the river Shannon that he believes is where he belongs and there decides to take up salmon fishing — the fish that brings wisdom. It is in that spot that he meets the woman he will marry and close by that spot he will know great sorrow … </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">I liked this book a lot. I found it wonderfully human and warm — the narrator is funny and sympathetic and the the main characters engaging and admirable. It is a very sad book at certain points but, overall, it is full of hope and life. Recommended. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">This recipe is easy. You can make your own crust, but I buy a pre-made crust from the store and the rest of the recipe is pretty much just assembly. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">It’s a somewhat more ‘grown-up’ pie than most, slightly on the tart side — no pun intended. If you like you pie sweeter, just add some more sugar.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">1 lb strawberries in ½ in. pieces</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">¼ cup quick-cooking tapioca<br>2 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into small pieces<br>1egg yolk </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">In a large bowl combine the chopped rhubarb, strawberries, sugars, lemon juice, tapioca and a pinch of salt. Put into the bottom pie crust. Add the dots of butter, spacing them among the fruit. Beat the egg yolk with a teaspoon of water. Brush the rims of the both pie crusts with the mixture and place the second pie crust on top of the bottom one. Crimp the two crusts together. Make a few holes in the crust and brush with the remainder of the egg mixture. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Bake in the oven for about a half-hour, then reduce the temperature to 350º and bake about another half-hour. Remove from the oven and cool. Excellent with vanilla ice-cream. </p></div>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 17px;"><span style="font-size: 13px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Just for a change here’s a quick recommendation for you. It’s a recording of Welsh traditional songs and has been a favorite of mine for some time now </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 16px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Julie Murphy is a Welsh singer best known for her work with the band Fernhill and Dylan Fowler is a guitarist/arranger of the first order. </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">This collaboration (the title means fate or fortune) is a gem of its kind. All the songs are sung in Welsh and though I am sadly totally ignorant of the language this whole recording is beguiling and endlessly listenable. Those who have listened to traditional song from this part of the world will recognize the the harmonic minor scale so often used and emotional ambiguity of the sound. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Murphy’s voice is a thing of crystalline beauty — strong and clear — and Fowler’s guitar is a fine example of how to accommodate a traditional song with imagination and respect. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">You can hear some tracks on YouTube and the album is available on iTunes and Amazon. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Highly recommended.</p></div>
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