Melodies in Bloom
I have had some favorite melodies playing in my head and wanted to arrange and record them. I call it “Melodies in Bloom”. Here you can find an exported recording and the sheet music. The melodies:
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Lifestyle discipline allows fairness
This is from “The Daily Stoic”. “Both Thomas Jefferson and George Washington profited from slavery, but both knew it was wrong. Yet at the end of their lives, it was Washington who freed his slaves, not Jefferson, who had written far more eloquently about human equality as well as the eternal shame of slavery. Why […]
Central Kentucky Highlights
These are places to visit during your trip to central Kentucky. Lexington Hampton Court neighborhood Ashland Estate – home of Henry Clay, has tours Old Fayette County Court House First Presbyterian Church Address: 171 Market St, Lexington, KY 40507 Gratz Park – historic neighborhood Address: Gratz Park, Lexington, KY 40507 Blue Stallion Brewery Address: 610 W 3rd […]
Letting go of the past is key to aging gracefully
This resonated with Steve. It is from Paul Prather in the Lexington Herald-Leader 1/2/2022: “My Granny Prather, who was never a happy-go-lucky person, said balefully more than once during her senior years, “There’s a lot of things worse than dying young.” Later, when my father was in his 70s, he said to me, “Son, I […]
Kentucky Mammoth Cave Tour
Steve and Peggy took this tour 9/18/2021. Big Buffalo Crossing Canoe, Munfordville KYJohnson Springs to Munfordville (4 miles/2.5 hours) – the water was flowing about 2 mph, an easy ride. We stopped on an island and found many mussels in the river, one was over 1 lb. We visited the Hart County Historic Museum which […]
Best US Policy Platform
This article is on Medium at https://spzwart.medium.com/what-if-republicans-had-more-to-say-than-no-576764c53338 The Republican party has no coherent response to Democrats’ ideas except to vote against them. A simple vision is needed to unify the party going forward: Republicans will promote government policies that lead to long-term opportunity and success across our population. Opportunity has to be available across the whole […]
Justice Louis Brandeis
Supreme Court justice Brandeis was born in Louisville and had tremendous intellect and character. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Brandeis : Justice William O. Douglas later wrote, “Brandeis was a militant crusader for social justice whoever his opponent might be. He was dangerous not only because of his brilliance, his arithmetic, his courage. He was dangerous because he was […]
Our Shared Humanity Class
Steve took a class from the Charter for Compassion called Our Shared Humanity in January 2021. The class author and teacher is Gudjon Bergmann, and there were about 20 people in the class. The course asked regular questions to which we responded. We could comment on each others’ thoughts. I think that this class has […]
Lexington Discovery Flight
Steve took a discovery flight from Nexgen aviation on 2/2/2021. Weather was 27 degrees, clear with winds 12 to 20 knots, which is the maximum allowed for training flights. The plane was a Diamond DA40, 4 seat light training plane with Lycoming motor. Michael the flight instructor let me fly the plane over Lexington for […]
Steve’s Passive Portfolio
The Passive Portfolio is meant to give good long-term returns with low effort. I wrote Steve’s Stock Trading Method that is geared for making short-term gains in stocks through value investing. It is labor-intensive and gives no consideration to asset allocation. Slow and steady wins the race Dollar-cost averaging is a technique investors use to […]