Robyn Hill Hendrix

Flowers are Red

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I’m having a lot of walk-down-memory-lane moments lately.  I decided to listen to a really old mix cd that I have in my car, that’s loosely based on a mixtape my 8th grade english and civics teacher made for my class (the cassette eventually broke, and I was devastated, and tried to recreate it).  The cd is just labeled “The Really Really Awesome CD” and the last few songs skip a bit since I made it about 9 years ago.  It has this song by Harry Chapin on it, along with Buffalo Springfield, Neil Young, Jimi Hendrix, and Pearl Jam to name a few.  How excited was I to discover this lovely “animation video” made with the Paint program on Youtube?  Oh, very excited.  However, if you have never heard the song before I encourage you to listen to it once first without watching the animation.  Kinda like, read the book before you watch the movie, not after, ok?

I probably have at least one more childhood nostalgia blog post up my sleeve, so…get used to it.

ta da!

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I’ve been tweaking a lot of little things on the website.  The homepage now has a nice updated list of upcoming events (two the first week in May!).  Plus, I changed the font!  It feels like the housewife who just got a new haircut and is waiting to see if her husband (aka the general public in this case) notices the change.  I like it; feels more clean.  But I am open to suggestions & criticism if anyone’s got some.  Plus I fixed the blog menu bar so now you can link directly from this blog to all my other website pages (portfolio, statement, etc).

I’ve been thinking I should revive my e-newsletter.  I started using Mail Chimp a while ago, but haven’t really sent out many updates.  Perhaps if I had more subscribers, I would be more motivated to use it… (subtle hint).

First rumblings of spring thunderstorms are coming through Minneapolis tonight.  I love thunder.  Reminds me of stormy nights visiting my grandparents at their old house at the mill in Ohio.  The windows rattled with the wind and it was kind of creepy, but the memory of it now is somehow comforting.  This picture might have been taken there, not sure.  I saw the Dusty Porch Sisters play today at the Walker for the MN Made event, which was great, and made me feel a little bit of nostalgia.

Robyn and Grandma with mandolin & ukelele

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