Speed of Life

If you've been mesmerized by the DNC on TV, you can't imagine the vibes of being here - a political convention where a rave broke out. How Dems threw off 40 years of fear, found a voice, stopped caring about the media and started having fun My column🎁 https://t.co/VpSpsHFYM9 — Will Bunch (@Will_Bunch) August 22, 2024 Still thinking about this pic.twitter.com/cZhqFs5zvu — Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) August 22, 2024 Oldest DNC delegate: Each convention has been so exciting. But this one especially. It's for women. It's for everyone. It's something that I can't explain. I feel like the world is opening up to everybody, every color, every creed, and every woman pic.twitter.com/5JluNJQ41M — Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) August 22, 2024

President Kamala Harris  20"x16" oil on linen 2024 (in process) by Gregg Chadwick

by Gregg Chadwick I do remember the 21st night of September. September is one of my favorite Earth, Wind & Fire songs and of course resonates with me on this date every year. Seeing Earth, Wind & Fire at the Capitol Center in Landover, Maryland was one of the most memorable musical events during my high school years in the Virginia suburbs of Washington DC. A friend's father had season tickets for the venue and graciously let his daughter take a group of friends along to the concert. It was the Bicentennial Summer of '76. A sense of possibility and freedom filled the arena that August night and mixed with the funky smell of parsley cut weed. The Emotions, a soulful sister trio from Chicago opened the night with songs from their album Flowers . Their huge hit Best of My Love would arrive the next year. But that night belonged to Earth, Wind & Fire. They opened their show with their band name spelled out in lights above the stage. A synthesizer riff offset with mock ...

pic.twitter.com/36UFw26jJG — Calling All Astronauts (@CAA_Official) April 27, 2020

Loved this card from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Reminds me of the many holiday seasons that I have spent in Japan. Especially the year that I spent chasing Hiroshige in Tokyo.  

Thank you, Michael Bond. #PaddingtonBear pic.twitter.com/wDVOoReolF — Flavia Fazenda (@FlaviaFazenda) June 28, 2017 Michael Bond at home in 2014. He said of Paddington Bear: ‘He’s never put down or deflated. He has the naivety of a child and the sophistication of an adult.’ Photograph Courtesy: Geoff Pugh/Rex/Shutterstock Much more on Michael Bond and Paddington in The Guardian.