A Summertime Long Ago

Autumn Love

Make You Feel My Love - Cover

I don’t care if you are black, brown, white, or yellow, blue, or red, or purple or anything in between
I don’t care if your life is exciting and fun, or dull and routine

I don’t care if you are noble, educated, smart and influential
I don’t care if you’re a flunkout without a single credential

And I don’t care if you melt the glaciers or expand them dry deserts
And I don’t care if you’re a city dweller or you live in the outskirts

And I don’t care if you choke the oceans with your plastics  and pollution
Don’t care if you deny the truth with fantasies and convolution          

I don’t care if you kill every life form left on this planet
And  I don’t care if your love for life is as solid as granite
                	
You see, I’m just a rock with water on my skin
With a molten and spinning  core deep within
   
My sister is Venus my older brother the sun
We are old and you are still young

So deplete the ozone and pollute the air
Or perhaps you should pause and re-think . . . and decide to care

Pause, re-think, decide to care
Decide to care

I Don't Care - Remix

Since a child I have always liked math
It was right up there with riding my bike and the Saturday night bath

In high school it was Number Lines, Algebra and the oh so fun Geometry
This is where I got my first “A” . . . hooray hooray for me !

In college it was 3 semesters of Calculus and two of Diff EQ
Back then I didn’t see how any of this could benefit me or you

But once I immersed myself in my chosen career
I could finally see how math is relevant and dear

From Morse Code and land lines and the phone in your pocket
To my childhood spider bike,  the school bus and the most powerful rocket

Polynomials, Splines, Tangents and the Graph
This new found power would become my new craft

Math was my servant and that was my plan
Just like the pencil, slide rule, calculator and FORTRAN

And serve me it did with elegance and style
Together we solved many problems that brought many a smile

Medical devices, satellites, flight controls and avionics
Were a few of my domains including electronics

Clean and pure, useful, precise
And with stochastic methods, could explain the dice

“God doesn’t care about our mathematical difficulties, He integrates empirically”
This was stated by the genius Albert E.

And zero was conceived by the Babylonians historians say
Adding an important lane to our computational highway

It’s in your food, in the air and the water you drink
The plants, the fish and your own kitchen sink

Math and music are cousins some claim
And both are language but of different fame

The girl you met has 2 of this and 10 of that
When Eve met Adam she had not even a hat

Lovely curves and symmetry galore
So much to love, so much to explore

If God Himself seems to favor 7
I wonder just how much other math there might be in Heaven

Discovered or invented is a question I ponder
Perhaps it’s best left as a mystery in the far off yonder

Math

Keeping Time

Slightly Chilled

Three Dancers

A Cat On A Chimney

Foreign Nature

Brotherhood With Sweden

Epstein - Barr

What General Weygand has called the Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.

Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be freed and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the likes of perverted science.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealths last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour."

Winston Churchill, June 1940

Bletchley Park

Viktor E. Frankl survived the holocaust and wrote a book called "Man's Search For Meaning" about some of his experiences in the death camps. This is a tribute to him and his book.

Victory For Viktor

Walk Them Blues Away

This is the 3rd in a series on a WW2 theme. It’s about the millions of Rosie the Riveters across the US, Canada, Australia and other allies that stepped up and worked the war time factories and shipyards to manufacture and assemble everything from bullets to planes to battleships, to food rations and clothing for those fighting abroad. They too deserve to be remembered. We couldn’t have won the war without them.

To all the “Rosie’s” . . . thank you!

Rosie The Riveter

Down Periscope

Copy Cat Vs Real Musician

Korg Demo

Movie Swing Demo

Unless otherwise noted, Steve composed and arranged each of these tracks. He is also the bassist on them.
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