How I Spent My Covid “Vacation” Before Lockdown, I spent much of my time hanging with my tribe at music shows; either on stage, as a singer-songwriter; or in the audience, as a photographer. With music show venues closing due to the Lockdown, I had nowhere to sing, and no folks to photograph. So, Gigs […]
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Lockdown Lemonade #16 by deb Ewing
Don’t Come Over My parents locked down before the nation did. “Don’t come over,” my sweet momma said. That was in February, just before her birthday. By the end of March, I could feel the encroachment of COVID across the nation; I watched the news carefully to see if I’d have to cancel travel plans […]
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The Gift of Time This pandemic has resonated across all borders, social, economic, spiritual and personal. As we are all aware, it has simply put the brakes on everything that we have come to know as normal. Staying home for a road warrior like me could have been a depressing and disheartening experience, unless viewed […]
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You Musicians Saved Me I am not a musician. But you musicians have saved me during this pandemic. I’m a fan of music and especially enjoyed going to listening venues to hear live performances. Every weekend I’d typically have 1, 2 or 3 events to choose from within traveling distance. Facing the difficult choices. And […]
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The Key to Going Global: Never Leaving Home I just checked our battered old 2019 wall calendar: that year, I played 174 gigs. Many Petty Chavez shows, of course, but also Irish bar gigs, fiddle band shows, events with our five piece British Invasion cover band, acoustic duo gigs, solo shows, etc. I even played […]
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Lockdown Lemonade #11 by Gary Paul
Creativity Rechanneled For the past several years, I’ve had a love-hate relationship with music. Since I was five, I’ve given it my heart. I’ve poured my soul into writing narrative story songs for 20 years, winning several awards and producing two CDs, but with little else to show for it. In 2019, I was finally […]
Read moreMore TagLockdown Lemonade #10- by Celia Chavez
Cocooning As I sit down to write this on a sunny SoCal Autumn afternoon, after a morning walk on the beach, a strong sense of change and flow still feels fresh. Perhaps, months ago, like many in the FAR-West community, I had hoped by now we could be coming out of the pandemic. I had […]
Read moreMore TagLockdown Lemonade #9- by Deborah Crooks
Being Here “I heard “This Land is Your Land,” and thought, ‘that’s me!’” said Benny, a neighbor who’d appeared on the sidewalk after my husband and I sang the Woody Guthrie classic recently. Since March, we’ve been playing safe-socially distanced porch concerts most every week. “I brought you some smoked salmon,” he said, placing a […]
Read moreMore TagLockdown Lemonade #8- by Judy Nazemetz
UNFINISHED PUZZLE RITUAL Eight months ago, at the beginning of lockdown, I brought home a 1000-piece Diego Rivera puzzle entitled “Detroit Industry.” It was amazing. The colors. The details. I could feel the heat of the fire in the factory. I could hear the grunts of the men working the assembly line. Mike and I […]
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The Movie of Moving I am in my carport in North Hollywood, California. John is on a step stool unloading a storage area. There is a lot of dust as he reaches into the storage area and lifts out box after box. I stand as an audience of one, watching my possessions come out of […]
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