Florence (122 notes)

• The Song of Florence
  Florence was a girl of the South. Not the domed city of the Renaissance. She loved to write and sing. In English to Jesus In Spanish to her friends. …
• A Sad Country Song
  I know why the Rose of Texas is Yellow I know why the Bonnet is Blue I know why Florence left her home It was to be with you. I know why the cotton i…
• Note from University of California, Berkeley
  How did they find Florence?  Truck with sphinxs mud flaps. Amina didn't feel like singin Stand by your man anymore. Is Zoe really his instructor or h…
• Audio from 2110 Vine St in Berkeley 🎤
• Audio from 1549 Hopkins St in Berkeley 🎤
• Audio from 1640 M L King Jr Way in Berkeley 🎤
• November’s defoliated days were in full view as the motor coach waited under the traffic signal at Texas Avenue and 19th street.
  November’s defoliated days were in full view as the motor coach waited under the traffic signal at Texas Avenue and 19 th street.  The legible brick-…
• November’s defoliated days were in full view
  November’s defoliated days were in full view as the motor coach left the outskirts of Lubbock and made its way East on highway 114 destined for Dalla…
• Embalming the ashes
  The new phoenix is destined to live as long as its old self. In some stories, the new phoenix embalms the ashes of its old self in an egg made     of…
• Modesty
  p. 26 Character , in my opinion, is always the starting point, but not necessarily the end , of biography. (Carol Brightman, Character in Biography, …
• The underworld
  Working at a satellite office of the High Plains Underground Water Authority is like living is a shell, a cave.  Florence can't see very well.  Not b…
• Defoliation Defended
  [The mythology and biology of defoliation] Defoliation is the botanical version of the emergence of the butterfly from the pupa and the rising of the…
• Life under water (or Rising to the Surface)
  Florence worked for the High Plains Water Authority which was responsible for issuing water permits to farmers and municipalities in the greater area…
• Muddy waters and evolution
  [1:00 AM] Does history repeat itself?  Is music appreciation like studying evolution?  Primordial ooze, muddy waters, Florence decided not to eat the…
• Song-poem contest and midnight sonata
  Song-poem contest documentary Beethoven's midnight sonata Perhaps they're related. Fats Waller, the happy clown that hides a deep inner sadness The c…
• James was full of noise. His head was spinning from all the beer in his gut. He’
  James was full of noise.  His head was spinning from all the beer in his gut.  He’d gone fishing with his step-brother Rodger in Lake Brownwood and d…
• The Beatles, Kafka and Scarabs and boll weevils
  It was 1964 and the times were a changin and Florence was feeling a bit like a dung beetle. Florence in her natural manner was entranced with another…
• It's only a paper moon
  Perfect for Florence's first letter to Shareef.  In it she describes what inspired her to seek an Egyptian pen pal.  She was reading an edition of th…
• James tried to compose his thoughts as he recalled the events of his daughter’s
  James tried to compose his thoughts as he recalled the events of his daughter’s birth. His head was spinning from all the beer he drank. He’d gone fi…
• Florence Peacock was a song girl
  Florence Peacock was a song girl.  She had been ever since she was a child.  She was born on a Sunday morning, at the end of the Great Depression in …
• US Foreign Policy and Symbiosis
  History of the word usage. Physical interaction. Mutualism - Florence and Sandra (perhaps she's British), or perhaps she's from Mexico (from a wealth…
• Songs do not sleep nor could Florence
  Characterization of her sleepwalking.