Slope of Hope Blog Posts
Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.
Friday Festivities
Although today’s runup to new lifetime highs across most indexes doesn’t make me feel like celebrating, it’s Friday, so………….. (more…)
Time in a Bottle
It should come as no surprise to any of you that I have a deep fondness for melancholy music, and one of my favorite childhood songs from the 1970s was Jim Croce’s Time in a Bottle. The tale surrounding the song is itself rather sad; he wrote the song for his not-yet born son, A.J. Croce. In September of 1973, soon after his son was born, Jim died in a small plane crash in my home state of Louisiana.
I was listening to this song again yesterday, recalling how beautiful it was, so I thought I’d share it with my fellow Slopers (whom I chose to go through time with!)
Get Your Blood Racing
Forget charts. You need music. Turn the volume up. Play this. And listen to the voice of God, to expose the dark crime which has enveloped us all.
Fresh Comment Cleaner
I was just on my 372th little errand this weekend when I asked for this song in my car (one of the Tesla’s spiffier features is you can ask it for play any song, and it’ll do so – – great for instant gratification). I had seriously forgotten how awesome this song and its video are.
