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Music connects to everything, and us to one another. In each article, Al or I focus on a piece of music that speaks to us in some way with a short essay and video.

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Music of the Day, 6 June 2026

Please join me in wishing my MotD partner, , a happy birthday!

I knew that I’d be featuring the incomparable Etta James today. Choosing an appropriate song was the real challenge. Even though I wasn’t that deep into my search, it stopped w...

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Al’s Music of the Day, 6 June 2026

It’s the 82nd anniversary of D-Day, the beginning of the Allied invasion of Europe. It’s also my birthday. Sharing my day with this solemn anniversary has always tempered the celebration for me. It was only 15 years after the landing at Nor...

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Music of the Day, 5 June 2026

It’s been an unusually busy week for me—more meetings than I usually have in a month, and most of them in person. This ol’ introvert got home yesterday afternoon from an especially taxing1 meeting, sank into a chair, and stayed there for ra...

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Music of the Day, 2 June 2026

Now, you may be wondering why I’m featuring a quintessentially American Thanksgiving folk song1 today, on the cusp of summer.2 I’ve long enjoyed the song and it regularly appears on the radio station in my mind whenever it wants. It started...

10 days ago
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Music of the Day, 1 June 2026

Today’s MotD made a brief appearance on the radio station in my mind yesterday, but it was overridden by an ‘80s beauty. It didn’t get another thought yesterday.

While caffeinating myself this morning, I opened ’s piece published yesterday...

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    Word wrangler, music lover, perpetually curious, former experimental/cognitive psychologist, secular humanist

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    Escapee from corporate America unbroken. Now a non-profit executive looking for good trouble, trying to build community, and writing about the journey. Columbiagreenehabitat.org

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