http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/TAPS./A little nook to store some of my favorite videos. In a few of them, only I can hear the music for it is hidden in my heart.hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/TAPS./582409Yes, this is my very favorite music to play during the Christmas Season. What I have here for you is just the beginning, the prelude, the sinfonia, the overture to the amazing Handel's "Messiah". I have listened to it so many times over the years and so often participated in choirs performing it,...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/TAPS./580985A thousand years ago, or so it seems, (back in the 1980's) my sons used to sing together as a quartet. They loved it. A wonderful little man played the piano for them. He was quite talented and his long, thin fingers roamed all over the piano keys belting out gospel music. He also directed their...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/TAPS./579909Here, where the sea shines and the wind howls, on the old terrace beside the gulf of Sorrento, a man embraces a girl he wept after, then clears his throat and continues the song: I love you very much, very, very much, you know; it is a chain by now that melts the blood inside the veins, you...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/TAPS./579175~~Meow is like aloha - it can mean anything.~~http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/TAPS./578756President Elect and his family are in the market for a dog. A hypoallergenic dog is to be preferred because of his daughter's allergies. There is no such thing as a non-allergenic dog, but some breeds have less allergens than others. America is watching to see what the next White House canine...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/TAPS./578106When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have. ~ Author: Edgar Watson Howehttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/TAPS./577826"....as long as old men sit and talk about the weather; as long as old women sit and talk about old men..." That's long enough for me.http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/TAPS./577236The bayou is a fascinating place, spooky, mysterious, a lonely place, a silent place except for bird calls, animal sounds and the splash of slackwater when a fish jumps or an alligator moves past a cypress knee. But, cajun music is anything but silent. It's as if with stomping and accordions,...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/TAPS./576711There are those of you of a certain age, who love to watch and listen to the beautiful music clips on PBS TV, who enjoy the Philharmonic Orchestra specials, and the Bill Gaither Home Coming programs. You have never seen reason to change to cable TV and have no idea what the word "analog" might...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/TAPS./575801It must be fun to be a scientist full time, to make new discoveries, ferret out exciting clues, and come up with advanced technologies as fast as human beings use up already found resources and turn assets into liabilities. The scientist in me has ever tried to get out in spurts of opportunity,...