Luke Hill@MassCommons

Tweeting about: books, food, history, music, politics, religion, sports…and anything else that comes to mind. Also at: @masscommons.bsky.social

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Joined January 2013
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Morning Song - Give Me That Feelin' by Hank Mobley If you’re going to call a song “Give Me That Feelin'”, then it’s got to deliver *that* feeling. Hank Mobley’s “Give Me That Feelin'” does." #jazz masscommons.wordpress.com/20…

Morning Song – Give Me That Feelin’

Some titles up the stakes. If you’re going to call a song “Give Me That Feelin'”, then it’s got to deliver that feeling. Hank Mobley’s “Give Me That Feelin'̶…

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Morning Song - Sing Me Back Home by Merle Haggard “…with a song I used to hear. Make my old memories come alive…” masscommons.wordpress.com/20…

Morning Song – Sing Me Back Home

“…with a song I used to hear.Make my old memories come alive…” Someday Merle Haggard’s 1967 classic “Sing Me Back Home”–about the last request of a d…

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#BeingMortal - Letting Go @Atul_Gawande “Our responsibility, in #medicine, is to deal with human beings as they are. People die only once. They have no experience to draw on. They need doctors & nurses who are willing to have the hard discussions....” masscommons.wordpress.com/20…

Being Mortal – Letting Go

(One in a series of posts about Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal: Medicine & What Matters In The End.) Here’s the dilemma Atul Gawande and his colleagues face: “..as people’s capac…

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Morning Song - Everybody Knows by Rufus Wainwright "The poor stay poor, the rich get rich, That's how it goes...." #FirstRuleOfCoverSongs masscommons.wordpress.com/20…

Morning Song – Everybody Knows

All of Leonard Cohen’s bitter and scathing commentary on the state of the world in “Everybody Knows”, but with Rufus Wainwright’s vocal dexterity and set to a tango. Yes, pl…

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#BeingMortal - A Better Life @Atul_Gawande “The battle of being mortal is the battle to maintain the integrity of one’s life.... Sickness & old age make the struggle hard enough. The professionals & institutions we turn to should not make it worse.” masscommons.wordpress.com/20…

Being Mortal – A Better Life

(One in a series of posts about Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal: Medicine & What Matters In The End.) In 1991 Dr. Bill Thomas took over as medical director of Chase Memorial Nursing Home in New Ber…

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Morning Song - Hope is the Thing with Feathers by @RhiannonGiddens "That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all." #EmilyDickinson masscommons.wordpress.com/20…

Morning Song – Hope Is The Thing With Feathers

Emily Dickinson’s Civil War-era poem “Hope Is The Thing With Feathers” provides the lyrics to the title track of Rhiannon Giddens’ new album. Giddens herself wrote the melod…

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Morning Song - Hope is the Thing with Feathers by @RhiannonGiddens "...that perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all." #EmilyDickinson masscommons.wordpress.com/20…

Morning Song – Hope Is The Thing With Feathers

Emily Dickinson’s Civil War-era poem “Hope Is The Thing With Feathers” provides the lyrics to the title track of Rhiannon Giddens’ new album. Giddens herself wrote the melod…

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#BeingMortal - Assistance by @Atul_Gawande "...our elderly are left with a controlled & supervised institutional existence, a medically designed answer to unfixable problems, a life designed to be safe but empty of anything they care about.” masscommons.wordpress.com/20…

Being Mortal – Assistance

(One in a series of posts about Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal: Medicine & What Matters In The End.) “(W)hen Keren Brown Wilson…built her first assisted living home for the aged in Ore…

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Morning Song - Step Into Your Power by @RayLaMontagne "All you need, You already own, It was given to you, On the day that you were born...." masscommons.wordpress.com/20…

Morning Song – Step Into Your Power

“If you want it,You can have it,All you gotta do,Is just reach out and grab it….” Ray LaMontagne’s chart-topping 2024 single, “Step Into Your Power” sounds like …

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#BeingMortal - Dependence by @Atul_Gawande “We end up with institutions that address any number of societal goals...but never the goal that matters (most): how to make life worth living when we’re weak & frail & can’t fend for ourselves anymore.” masscommons.wordpress.com/20…

Being Mortal – Dependence

(One in a series of posts about Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal: Medicine & What Matters In The End.) “As fewer of us are struck dead out of the blue, most of us will spend significant period…

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Morning Song - #Raindrop Prelude in Db Major, Op. 28 No. 15 by Frederic #Chopin, played by Vladimir #Horowitz #piano #instrumental masscommons.wordpress.com/20…

Morning Song – “Raindrop” Prelude In Db Major, Op. 28 No. 15

We’re in the midst of an old-fashioned three-day nor’easter here at MassCommons World Headquarters and it sounds almost nothing like Frederic Chopin’s “Raindrop Prelude̶…

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Afternoon Song - Maybe God is Tryin' to Tell You Somethin' by Andrae Crouch & Quincy Jones "Are you listenin'? Are you listenin'? Can you hear him? Yeah...." #gospel masscommons.wordpress.com/20…

Afternoon Song – Maybe God Is Tryin’ To Tell You Somethin’

Thanks to “Maybe God Is Tryin’ To Tell You Somethin'” from the 1985 musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, we have an answer to the question, “What wou…

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"I have one thing (that billionaire over there) will never have: enough.... I *don't* want to be the richest bloke in the cemetery." @TMFScottP on @MoneyUnpluggedP with @ChrisHillALX piped.video/LoiDO-HIXI8?si=iOmk…

The $2 Million Car Mistake (Scott Phillips)

Scott Phillips is the Chief Investment Officer of Motley Fool Austr...

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Morning Song - #Gershwin Medley by Art Blakey & The #Jazz Messengers Enjoy. masscommons.wordpress.com/20…

Morning Song – Gershwin Medley

Only an early death (at 38) kept George Gershwin, born this day in 1898, from a decades-long career as one of America’s great composers. Here at this little blog, we like to think he’d …

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Morning Song - Sweet Thing by Rufus ft. @ChakaKhan "You are my heat, You are my fire, You make me weak with strong desire..." masscommons.wordpress.com/20…

Morning Song – Sweet Thing

Listen carefully to the lyrics of Rufus’ 1976 hit, “Sweet Thing”, and you’ll want to get as far away as possible from the narrator because there is no way this romance ends …

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Morning Song - Date Night by @tmorello "Which side are you on, indeed." #HannieSchaft #FreddieOversteegen #TruusOversteegen masscommons.wordpress.com/20…

Morning Song – Date Night

Tom Morello’s “Arm The Homeless”-emblazoned custom-made ice-blue Stratocaster is perhaps the most well-known descendant of the “This Machine Kills Fascists” guitar Woo…

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Morning Song - Bi by @LivingColour “I need a closet big enough to live in, A closet for the whole world to live in….” #BiVisibilityDay masscommons.wordpress.com/20…

Morning Song – Bi

Happy Bi-Visibility Day to all who celebrate. America was not ready for Living Colour’s blunt-talking, hard-rocking “Bi” when it was released in 1993. Now, 33 years later, a lot h…

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Morning Song - Sweet Forever by @MondoCozmo "a raggedy, Dylanesque, gospel song, suffused with grief & gratitude...'Hallelujah til the end' indeed." masscommons.wordpress.com/20…

Morning Song – Sweet Forever

Josh Ostrander’s dog died and that death inspired”Sweet Forever”, the title track to Mondo Cozmo’s new album. “I wanted to write something for him that I could actuall…

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"Do you remember..." @EarthWindFire Happy #21stDayOfSeptember to all who celebrate: masscommons.wordpress.com/20…

Morning Song – September

Do you remember the 21st night of September? If you do, then you remember Phil Bailey’s gorgeous falsetto, Maurice White’s light, rock-steady (and left-handed!) drumming, brother Verdin…

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Morning Song - My Sweet #Summer Suite by the Love Unlimited Orchestra "Think of it as the soundtrack for your best memories of the summer of 2026." masscommons.wordpress.com/20…

Morning Song – My Sweet Summer Suite

According to the Old Farmer’s Almanac (what? you think we rely on AI here at this little blog?) the fall equinox doesn’t occur until tomorrow (8:04 pm, to be precise), which makes this …

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