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	<title>Work in Progress by Henry E. Powderly II</title>
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		<title>The secret to world peace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always suspected it would be a song that transforms this often barbaric and brutal world into a kinder one where humankind can&#8217;t help but be decent to one another. I just never realized it had been recorded more than 45 years ago.
Last Sunday I brought a copy of Jimmy Smith&#8217;s The Sermon to Roanoke Vineyards, where I was scheduled to work for the day. I&#8217;d been bringing a few discs from my jazz collection to the winery, all with the hope of keeping the North Fork swinging at all ...


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		<link>http://henrypowderly.com/2010/03/the-secret-to-world-peace/</link>
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		<title>Imaginary Bebop: One &#8211; &#8216;Round Midnight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So here it begins, my novel, Imaginary Bebop.
Chapter 1 &#8211; &#8216;Round Midnight
“He’s a clown.”
But Irwin’s words couldn’t cut the clamor, the hundred mashed-up voices, the heat the smoke the bass and the funk, the song and the singer, the cigarettes the booze the blur and the blues. The bar killed the words, dead in his mouth.
“What?” said Will.
The beat shook spirals in Irwin’s scotch … his sixth.
“A clown, man. A sad clown,” Irwin howled.
Will shook his head.
They sat at the corner table, the one closest to the stage at the ...


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		<link>http://henrypowderly.com/2010/02/imaginary-bebop-one-round-midnight/</link>
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		<title>The bebop in my head</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Enough time has passed. It&#8217;s time to tackle Imaginary Bebop.
I read a list of &#8220;things writers do&#8221; the other day, the type of list that always pisses me off because there is this idea growing like the blob on the Internet that only a set group of people who have conformed to a certain set of behaviors, and bookmark the same blogrolls, could dare call themselves writers. They must always read, always write, always talk about why they write, always suck up to agents on their blogs, follow the same ...


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		<link>http://henrypowderly.com/2010/02/the-bebop-in-my-head/</link>
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		<title>Ah, Long Island Merlot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Working part-time in a Long Island vineyard and connecting with fellow Long Island wine lovers is giving me a great opportunity to engross myself in what is my favorite part of the region, an agricultural paradise that erases the stain left by the emptying strip malls and boarded-up gas stations that litter this suburbia.
So, let there be local wine.
Since Roanoke Vineyards contracts Roman Roth, winemaker for Wolffer Estate, to make its wines, it also sells some Wolffer wines in its tasting room. And since Wolffer is one of the few ...


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		<link>http://henrypowderly.com/2010/02/ah-long-island-merlot/</link>
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		<title>Twitter Taste Live: Tickle my fingers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the second time, I participated in Twitter Taste Live, an especially fun wine tasting for geeks like me that combines wine love with social media overkill. (Ah, geekdom, I sing your anthem proudly through purple-stained lips.)
While last time I got to taste a series of Finger Lakes cabernet francs, which were as a whole quite good, this time my cohorts and I tasted sparkling wine made in the upstate New York region. I&#8217;d never had a bubbly from there, I didn&#8217;t even know they were making them in the ...


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		<link>http://henrypowderly.com/2010/02/twitter-taste-live-tickle-my-fingers/</link>
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		<title>Piano meditation: On the breeze</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s my latest piano improvisation, a short piece that I think I channeled my inner Erik Satie to create.
Again, I&#8217;ve used a simple motive, in this case the movement between two chords, and have tried to create a piece that has steady degree on movement without relying on harmonic changes and instead leaning on a repetitive rhythm and dynamic changes to create the mood.
It reminds me of a see-saw, or a sunflower swinging back and forth on a growing and fading summer wind.
I&#8217;m happy with the outcome, it&#8217;s peaceful.
Enjoy.
Piano Meditation ...


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		<link>http://henrypowderly.com/2010/02/piano-meditation-on-the-breeze/</link>
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		<title>Another winter blast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today reminded me that there&#8217;s plenty of winter left, though I&#8217;d definitely take snowstorms over your average, gray winter day.
When I woke up this morning, a few inches had already fallen, and since the snow was pretty wet it stuck to all the trees, filling my property with scores of white, twiggy knots of snow-caked branches. I ended up taking a walk through the acre of woods I have next to my house, which has seen a lot of its tress fall down this windy winter, to snap a few ...


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		<link>http://henrypowderly.com/2010/02/another-winter-blast/</link>
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		<title>A quick update on me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s this time of year when I usually start crawling out of my skin, as the winter has completely lost its allure. Now, the icy air just gives me a headache and stiffens my bones. It&#8217;s only the beginning of February and I&#8217;m ready for the spring, though I have so much more waiting ahead of me. Luckily, I have a few things going on to keep things interesting.
First, my little girl Gwyneth turns nine moths old this month, and it&#8217;s such an amazing thing to watch the transformation a ...


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		<link>http://henrypowderly.com/2010/02/a-quick-update-on-me/</link>
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		<title>Writing to music: The string quartet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At last I&#8217;ve gotten around to a writing exercise I&#8217;ve been planning on trying for a while, something I&#8217;ll call &#8220;music writing&#8221; since I really can&#8217;t come up with a slug that explains it any better.
(UPDATE: My Twitter friend @badbadbad suggested &#8220;Writing to music,&#8221; which of course is the right thing to call these. Thanks, my friend.)
The idea is to listen to an album, a song, an orchestral work, a piano piece, a concert or any other type of musical composition and write as I&#8217;m listening to it, trying not ...


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		<link>http://henrypowderly.com/2010/01/music-writing-shostakovichs-5th-string-quartet/</link>
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		<title>The simple Carmenere</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight&#8217;s wine has a very special purpose: It&#8217;s my chaser for what I assume will be a sobering State of the Union address, the first given by President Barack Obama. Perhaps I should have chosen a domestic wine, but I chose to go with the other America instead, picking a Carmenere from Chilean maker Root: 1.
I&#8217;ve had the Root: 1 Cabernet Sauvignon before and I found it to be a very nice entry-level Chilean cab that had a bit more balance than Los Vascos, the bottom rung, fruit-forward label from ...


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		<link>http://henrypowderly.com/2010/01/the-simple-carmenere/</link>
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