Based on the frantic message coming from the Public Address System at the Ukrainian Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Enerhodar being fired upon by the Russian tanks, which could have caused a disaster 10 times larger than Chernobyl.

Does anyone want to send out a Tiktok video?  Feel free to dance your contempt for the Russian tank(s) who fired on the nuclear power plant!

Stop Firing at the Nuclear Power Plant!

Winter is hard for those with Seasonal Affective Disorder or clinically depressed.

Surviving Winter

From a suggestion at the Friends of Filk Bytes song circle today, TTTO "Swing The Cat" by Meg Davis.

Feed the Cat

I'd reached a pause during February Album Writing Month (FAWM.org) when I was between songs and nothing was sparking new ideas, so I started with "WORD" which rhymed with "BIRD" and it took off from there!  It didn't start out a love song, but by the time they got some alone time in the storm, well...

The Vagabond Bard

This is the story of Portland Oregon's Belmont Goats and the hen they adopted.
https://thebelmontgoats.org/goats
They are in need of help with vet bills for one of the youngest goats, Athos, and have a GoatFundMe at:  https://gofund.me/de6e8dfb
Juniper never let anyone else tell her that hens don't crow or that she was not a goat.  She did her thing and found friends who accepted her for what she was!

The Belmont Goats

Jacob Everett Wallace  posted the lyrics on the FAWM.org during February Album Writing Month, and I dove on them and put the music together.

i’m the cat curiosity killed

Cecilia Eng's Album

Let’s Fly High

February Album Writing Month 2024 Challenge:  Write a song with a verse or chorus that uses a list structure.

Chair of WHAT??

February Album Writing Month (FAWM.org) 2024 Challenge: Get Modal!  The Peter Iredale has been a tourist attraction on the northwest Oregon coast in Clatsop County where she slowly decays on the sands near the Columbia River Bar.

Peter Iredale

You can google news reports from March 29, 2021 about Sisu and his determined raids on the Dollar General in Kenansville, NC and Samantha Lane, the Duplin County Animal Control officer who paid $10 for the purple unicorn who shared Sisu's bed at the shelter as well as his forever home after his adoption through Lab Rescue.

Sisu’s Best Friend

The CCBA is the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association which kept records of the Chinese men and collected payments over the course of their lives so their bones could be returned to their home villages to be buried with their ancestors.  In 2009 a documentary by Ivy C. Lin, “Come Together Home:  Death, Disinterment, Reburial” was shown by the Friends of Lone Fir Cemetery.  Ivy Lin found and interviewed one of the men who helped ship the remains disinterred in 1948 to Hong Kong only to find over a decade later when visiting Hong Kong that the shipment with his handwriting was still on shelves at the funeral home there.  The trailer for the film can still be seen on Vimeo:  https://vimeo.com/6226018

Block 14

February Album Writing Month (FAWM.org) 2024 Challenge:  Rip Off Pachelbel

Chanterelle

This feminist retelling of the Twelve Dancing Princesses from the Brothers Grimm was a Challenge from the February Album Writing Month (FAWM.org) to write a song with a mixed time signature.  I also not only changed from minor to major, but actually changed the key going from Am to G.

Marching to the Dance

Last winter (January 2024) the crow count for the downtown Portland winter crow roost stood at over 22,000 crows, and we see them flying away from town in the morning, gathering in pre-roosts all around town to gossip and engage in aerobatics, then flying back towards town before nightfall to roost for the night. https://www.wweek.com/outdoors/2024/12/20/over-22000-crows-roosted-in-downtown-portland-last-winter-portland-researchers-find/

Winter Crows

I highly recommend Syou Ishida's "We'll Prescribe You a Cat" about the strange disappearing Clinic for the Soul and its unusual staff.

We’ll Prescribe You a Cat

Passages from Neverwhere's inescapable villains rearranged for song.

Croup & Vandemar

Donald Trump seems to think he can sign Mother Nature out of existence.  When she refuses, he'll probably explain that he doesn't know her and she's not his type.

You Can’t Fight Mother Nature

Leaving earth to seek other earth-like worlds can be a lonely existence.

Starflight

© 2/8/2019   Check out the festival at:
https://www.pdxwlf.com/
The festival's 5th year took place Thursday February 6 thru Saturday February 8 in 2020!

Winter Light Festival

The Nisbet Family Curse

Infinite Possibilities

© 2/17/2020   Based on a FAWM weekly challenge to write a song from the point of view of an inanimate object.  As inanimate objects, Mountain and Sea qualify, although the Salmon folk took over the negotiations... This is (as far as I know) NOT a native American folk tale, but I wanted to give this love song the FEEL of a native American folk tale, as an explanation of WHY the salmon go down to the sea and return from the sea to spawn.  It is also a cautionary tale as to what might follow if we destroy the Pacific NW salmon runs.

Go Betweens

Singer/Songwriter since 1984.  Inducted into the Filk Hall of Fame in 2013.
February Album Writing Month (FAWM) member since 2019.  These are scratch tracks recorded for the 2020 FAWM or for myself since 2019.  Featured performer at the 2021 Tumbleweed Music Festival Saturday Night Concert:  https://vimeo.com/593977025

Cecilia Eng

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