Everett Jenkins Birthday Blog

  Over the years, I have had many Zen daily calendars which contain quotes that tend to have a Zen theme.  During those years, I have tried to collect the daily quotes that particularly resonated with me.  They have been a personal collection that I call   The Book of Everett.   There are now two volumes   The Book of Everett.   Volume One of   The Book of Everett  happens to contain three quotes from Marcus Aurelius, the Philosopher/Emperor of the Roman Empire.  The three quotes in my book are  "Dwell on the beauty of life.  Watch the stars and see yourself running with them." "He who sees what is now has seen all things, whatsoever comes to pass from everlasting and whatsoever shall be unto everlasting time." "When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ... " 88888 Over the weekend, while living amongst the Joshua Trees, I finished reading  Meditations...

One of my fellow black alumni mentioned that he could not open the Bing videos listed in the email below.  Since it is my purpose to serve, here are the YouTube videos for  Rock 'N' Roll Gangster by Aalon (205) Rock 'N' Roll Gangster - YouTube On A Sunday Afternoon by Lighter Shade of Brown (205) On A Sunday Afternoon - YouTube and, of course, Together by Tierra (205) Tierra - Together - [original STEREO] - YouTube Hope you enjoy them.  However, as a bonus, please check out these two tunes from Pepe Marquez: Be Thankful For What You've Got Bing Videos (205) Pepe Marquez - Be thankful for what you've got - [Official Video] - YouTube and an all too relevant What's Going On Bing Videos Paz, Everett "Skip" Jenkins Fairfield, California October 31, 2023 ----- Forwarded Message ----- From:  skipjen2865@aol.com <skipjen2865@aol.com> To:   Sent:  Monday, October 30, 2023 at 06:06:02 AM PDT Subject:  The Immortal Life of Art Laboe As I reported last O...

As I reported last October (see below), the great Art Laboe died.  But I may have been wrong, As I drove through the Central Valley late Sunday night, the Art Laboe radio show came on the radio.  Using a vintage program from an October from some time ago with some updated written requests, the Art Laboe radio show was still going strong over a year after he had transitioned to another plane.  I always loved his show which seemed geared towards a somewhat black but largely Latino crowd.  Focused on the Central Valley many of the requests came from women whose boyfriends and husbands were incarcerated in one of the State prisons located in the Central Valley, particularly the one at Corcoran.  Last night, I had to chuckle over a request for a young woman who love was in Corcoran.  She requested the following song in sentimental remembrance of the glorious times with her man Bing Videos but there were others that reminded me so much of my Victorville brothers ...

Went to Victorville on Friday on October 27.  After a nice lunch with my four of my high school classmates and two of their spouses where we were able to catch on a great deal of classmate updates, I went to the Desert View Cemetery to pay my parents a visit and to give my mother two dozen pink roses for her birthday.  My brother who lives in Victorville had beat me to the cemetery and had already placed some flowers in each of my parents vases.  A nice touch of class.  However, the flowers were not pink.  So while saying sorry to my father, I placed all of my brother's flowers in his vase and placed my two dozen pink roses in my mother's vase because pink roses were her favorite flowers. I suppose some might find my gesture to be overly sentimental, but I am old school.   On the drive back to Fairfield, while driving on Highway 99 just north of Bakersfield, I was listening to the Art Laboe radio show when coincidentally a song came on which expresses ...

  It is almost 3:00 am and I am in a timeshare unit in Palm Springs. I just finished trolling the television stations and was stopped when I came across this classic Tracy Chapman song being sung by the good ol' boy, Luke Combs on CMT -- Country Music Television Bing Videos "Fast Car" was written and made famous thirty-five years ago as a pop/folk song by the Grammy Award winner Tracy Chapman, an African American.  Bing Videos Soon after the Luke Combs version -- a version that retains Chapman's female gender references -- aired, another song came on featuring two current stars of country music, Mickey Guyton and Kane Brown, both of whom are African American. Bing Videos (200) Mickey Guyton - Nothing Compares To You (Official Audio) ft. Kane Brown - YouTube Some of us remember the good old days when the only black face at the CMA (Country Music Association) events was dear ol' Charley Pride.  Well, that was fifty years ago, and while the country may be more segreg...