by Louie Ferrera | Mar 3, 2021 | Music
Do some things really get better with age or does our familiarity with them over time deepen our love and appreciation, thus making those things more special to us? I think one of the keys to answering this question is to make a conscious effort to always be looking...
by Louie Ferrera | Feb 26, 2021 | Friends & Family
As the sun finally rose, he was starting to understand the meaning of life. Well not really, but last night while he and his two best friends were deep into conversation, it seemed like they had it all figured out. Their talk was wide ranging and free form, bouncing...
by Louie Ferrera | Feb 17, 2021 | Friends & Family
When I awoke this morning, the sun looked a little brighter, the sky a deeper shade of blue, the air seemed fresher, crisper, the birdsong a bit cheerier. I wasn’t thinking about covid or Trump or racial injustice or climate change. All seemed right with the world...
by Louie Ferrera | Feb 11, 2021 | Friends & Family
Towards the end of Frank Capra’s It’s A Wonderful Life, James Stewart’s character George Bailey is at the end of his rope. He has just been shown what his community would have been like had he never been born. It is a nightmare vision. He stands in the middle of a...
by Louie Ferrera | Jan 17, 2021 | Friends & Family
As a child growing up in the 1960’s, the airing of The Wizard of Oz was an annual event not to be missed. It was long before VCRs, DVDs, video stores and online streaming enabled you to watch this iconic film whenever you wanted to. If you weren’t in front of your...
Yes! I enjoyed this writing, and the commentors' notes as well. "We played the music and the music played us"…
Person-to-person gifts of back-yard fruit, and compassionate acts done just for others, carry messages of human kindness that can't be…
The joy we got from sharing music, in real time, together, and in real life, was a generational gift that's…
Glad you included the vineyards, the lovely contrast of large, bright-yellow leaves with the dusky purple of grapes peaking out…
Just for S&G I looked up Louie Road on the map. It’s kinda half way twixt Yreka and Weed. Just…