Our neighbors at the end of the street brought two freshly made, still-warm cinnamon rolls down to us. We were already making dinner, so we thanked them and said we would have them for breakfast. On the way out, they wanted to know what our secret was. “How do you keep your driveway so clean?” They speculated that the pavement may be heated. “We shovel,” we told them. Pretty simple. We’re home most of the time, and when it snows, we shovel. It’s a great excuse to get outdoors. Most of our other neighbors either have a plow contract or a snowblower, and we hardly see them in the winter.
CalZone gave us a heads up about PBS’s American Masters show on Friday, and we built our day around the broadcast. “Sun Ra: Do the Impossible” is available to stream now, and I would call it required viewing for human beings. The producers did a great job touching on all facets of the poet, philosopher, and music visionary’s life, but the section on Sun Ra cranking out LPs with custom covers on his own label was mind-blowing. Those original Saturn LPs sell for thousands today as the world is catching up with Sun Ra.
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