Been reading the book "An Old Woman's Reflections: The Life of a Blasket Island Storyteller" by Peig Sayers, recently. Peig was illiterate, and only spoke and knew Irish, called Gaelic at the time. And yet, her son's transcription of her stories and translation into English really conveys her warmth, melody, and idiom/myth phrases, in a way that with almost no other book I've read I feel not just that I know Peig, but that she knows me. I hope I can leave some sort of media that carries even just a fraction of a whisper of a murmur of that personhood and connection. I hope you hear Peig thru-in your days, too.

Playlist:

• Susan Raye and the Buck Owens Band, featuring Leanne Scott - Calgary International Airport
• The Ratskin Family Band - Trucker
• Great Uncles Of The Revolution, featuring Andrew Downing, Kevin Turcotte, Jesse Zubot, Steve Dawson - When We Were Little
• Blu Beach Band - Dogwater
• Leeroy Stagger - Summer Rain
• Joan MacIsaac - Mister You Stole That Song (From Me)
• Grouyan Gombo - La prairie
• 54-40 - Crossing A Canyon (Unplugged)
• Alan & Jan - Progress
• Jim Croce - Workin' At The Car Wash Blues
• Janis Joplin - Little Girl Blue (Live)
• Oak Park High Stage Band 1988, featuring Gary Pollard - Cortez
• Uncle Neptune - I Love That I'm So In Love With You
• The Langley Schools Music Project - Space Oddity
• Beck - True Love Will Find You In The End
• Big Wreck - Around
• The Fall - Bill Is Dead
• Billy Joel - Through The Long Night
• Maximilian Torsten - Rosen Lieben Blauen Trauer
• Patricia Murray & Jim Smith, featuring Kim Vincent (guitar), Margie Carmichael-Scotto (guitar), Gordon Belsher (bass), Scott MacAulay (Highland bagpipes) - The Water Is Wide
• Fraser & Debolt (With Ian Guenther) - The Waltze Of The Tennis Players