Sunday, September 15, 2024

A00081 - Misia, Fabulous Fado Singer, R.I.P.

There are many cultures which have their own "soul" music.  In Portugal, fado music is such a form of "soul" music. 



During the Olympics, Misia, one of the great practitioners of fado passed away


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My Tribute

  The main notoriety I have achieved in this life is based upon my writing.  I have written six books (Pan-African Chronology [three volumes], The Muslim Diaspora [two volumes], and The Creation [one volume]) which achieved some notoriety and I have begun two blogs Who's Who in Islam and The Muslim Compendium which have garnered additional notoriety.  However, whatever notoriety I have achieved for my writing has always seemed a bit undeserved.  Truth be told, I write not for notoriety, but for God.  In the coming days, I hope to be able to elaborate on why I do this.  However, suffice it to say that every book I write and every blog I begin, begins with a tribute to God.  I can only pray that God will continue to find what I write to be an expression of God's will.

Peace,

Everett "Skip" Jenkins

Fairfield, California

November 28, 2021


P.S. My Tribute (youtube.com)




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About the Author

 Over the past 68 years, I have achieved some notable accomplishments.  Below are the links to some of the biographical listings that set forth those accomplishments. 



I feel very blessed to have been able to do as much as I have, but I feel that I have been "called" to do even more.  The creation of this blog is my response to that "calling".  I look forward to seeing what your response to that "calling" will be.

Peace,

Everett "Skip" Jenkins
Fairfield, California 
November 28, 2021 

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Alphabetical and Numerical Listings (1-90)

 Alphabetical Listings


A Meditation on John Coltrane - A00048

A Musical Meditation on Rumi - A00038

A Tale of Two Memorial Services - A00051

A Very Special Mother's Day - A00076

After 50 Years Why Haven't We Made More Progress?: The Absence of Curtis Mayfield - A00082

Ahmad Jamal, R.I.P. - A00029

Amazing Grace - A00044

And the Grammy Goes to Tyla for "Water" - A00063

Art Laboe, R. I. P. - A00017

Barrett Strong, R.I.P. - A00023

Blue-Eyed Soul Singer Bobby Caldwell, R. I. P. - A00028

Book of the Month for February 2023: Autobiography of a Yogi: The Yogi and the Dream Weaver - A00045

Book of the Month for December 2022: Cloud Empires: John Perry Barlow - A00020

Burt Bacharach: The Victorville Years - A00025

Cloud 9 on MLK Day - A00061

Dakota Staton: A Hidden Gem of History - A00032

Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas in August - A00014

Durand Jones & The Indications - A00078

Eleanor Collins, Ruby Sneed, and the Black Canadian Experience - A00072

Elza Soares, The Brazilian Voice of the Millennium - A00030

Frankie Beverly, R. I. P.  - A00084

Freshlyground -A00060

Goree Carter, The Forefather of Rock and Roll - A00068

Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song - A00024

Hallelujah Revisited - A00026

Happy Feelin's with the Soul Bird - A00085

Heal the World - A00073

Henry Fambrough, The Last of the Original Spinners - A00069

Hugh Price and the Waters of Bellagio - A00086

In Celebration of Coltrane: The Real Ambassadors and the Monterey Jazz Festival of 1962 - A00016

In Praise of Omar - A00056

Irene Cara, R. I. P. - A00019

It Won't Be Like This For Long - A00070

James Caan, Amherst College Memories and the Theme from Brian's Song - A00013

Jim Seals and Summer Breeze - A00010

Jim Seals' Diamond Girl - A00011

Joseph Clarence Chambers, Jr. (Amherst College Class of 1930), Composer of "All American Suite for Two Pianos" - A00089

La Vida Es Sueno - A00006

Mary Ellin Barrett, R.I.P. - A00015

Meditations on Rumi: The Music of Shujaat Khan - A00002

Meklit Hadero - A00004

Misia, Fabulous Fado Singer, R.I.P. - A00081

Music from the Barrio - A00055

Must See TV for February 2024: PBS: Gospel Live! and Gospel - A00065

Must See TV for February 2024: PBS: Gospel Live! and Gospel: A Review - A00067

Must See TV for August 2023: PBS: Independent Lens: Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary - A00035

Must See TV for January 2023: PBS: American Masters: Roberta Flack - A00022

My Tribute - A00033

Native American Indian Heritage Month - A00018

Owamni and Yoasobi - A00050

Red Baraat on Holi - A00071

Robbie Robertson, Native Son and the Leader of The Band, R.I.P. - A00042

Roger Whittaker, Anglo-Kenyan Singer of "The Last Farewell", R.I.P. - A00047

Samara Joy - A00027

Sara Tavares, R.I.P. - A00058

Sergio Mendes, R. I. P. - A00083

Shuhada' Sadaqat, R.I.P., and Welcome to the Realm of the Ancestors - A00037

Sidney Poitier, R.I.P. - A00005

Songs for Native American Heritage Month - A00001

Summer of Soul: Oh Happy Day! and Precious Lord, Take My Hand - A00008

The Eternal Essence of Quincy Jones - A00090

The Golden Time of Day - A00009

The Healing Power of Soul Music - A00039

The Healing Power of Soul Music: A Divine Addendum - A00040

The Immortal Life of Art Laboe - A00054

The Integration of Country Music - A00052

The Lasting Legacy of Madame Butterfly - A00031

The Magical Music of Maurice El Medioni, The Pianist Who Fused Jewish and Arab Music into Andalous  - A00074

The Magical Wonder of Route 66 - A00036

The Memorial Service: Shaman's Call - A00043

The Memorial Service: The Guiding Scripture - A00046

The Nearness of You - A00007

The Songbird of Asia - A00057

The Soul of Bentley and The Colors of the Wind - A00062

The Sounds of the Universe and the Music of the Spheres - A00080

The 'Spiritual Wonder" of Van Gogh's Starry Night - A00034  

The Wandering Day - A00088

The Weekend Theme Song - A00053

There's Something On Your Mind - A00066

Thom Bell, R.I.P. - A00021

Tio Feco y El Rey - A00003

TLC Forever - A00077

Toby Keith, R.I.P. - A00064

Traer Price's The Prayer Water Choreography - A00087

Unborn Child - A00012

Vincent van Gogh Masterworks by Rosalind Ormiston - A00041

We Are the World - A00075

Wild World - A00049 

Zahara, R.I.P. - A00059

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Numerical Listings 


A00001 - Songs for Native American Heritage

A00002 - Meditations on Rumi: The Music of Shujaat

A00003 - Tio Feco y El Rey

A00004 - Meklit Hadero

A00005 - Sidney Poitier, R.I.P.

A00006 - La Vida Es Sueno

A00007 - The Nearness of You

A00008 - Summer of Soul: Oh Happy Day! and Precious Lord, Take My Hand

A00009 - The Golden Time of Day

A00010 - Jim Seals and Summer Breeze

A00011 - Jim Seals' Diamond Girl

A00012 - Unborn Child

A00013 - James Caan, Amherst College Memories and the Theme from Brian's Song

A00014 - Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas in August

A00015 - Mary Ellin Barrett, R.I.P.

A00016 - In Celebration of Coltrane: The Real Ambassadors and the Monterey Jazz Festival of 1962

A00017 - Art Laboe, R. I. P.

A00018 - Native American Indian Heritage Month

A00019 - Irene Cara, R. I. P.

A00020 - Book of the Month for December 2022: Cloud Empires: John Perry Barlow

A00021 - Thom Bell, R.I.P.

A00022 - Must See TV for January 2023: PBS: American Masters: Roberta Flack

A00023 - Barrett Strong, R.I.P.

A00024 - Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song

A00025 - Burt Bacharach: The Victorville Years

A00026 - Hallelujah Revisited

A00027 - Samara Joy

A00028 - Blue-Eyed Soul Singer Bobby Caldwell, R. I. P.

A00029 - Ahmad Jamal, R.I.P.

A00030 - Elza Soares, The Brazilian Voice of the Millennium

A00031 - The Lasting Legacy of Madame Butterfly

A00032 - Dakota Staton: A Hidden Gem of History

A00033 - My Tribute

A00034 - The 'Spiritual Wonder" of Van Gogh's Starry Night

A00035 - Must See TV for August 2023: PBS: Independent Lens: Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary

A00036 - The Magical Wonder of Route 66

A00037 - Shuhada' Sadaqat, R.I.P., and Welcome to the Realm of the Ancestors

A00038 - A Musical Meditation on Rumi

A00039 - The Healing Power of Soul Music

A00040 - The Healing Power of Soul Music: A Divine Addendum

A00041 - Vincent van Gogh Masterworks by Rosalind Ormiston

A00042 - Robbie Robertson, Native Son and the Leader of The Band, R.I.P.

A00043 - The Memorial Service: Shaman's Call

A00044 - Amazing Grace

A00045 - Book of the Month for February 2023: Autobiography of a Yogi: The Yogi and the Dream Weaver

A00046 - The Memorial Service: The Guiding Scripture

A00047 - Roger Whittaker, Anglo-Kenyan Singer of "The Last Farewell", R.I.P.

A00048 - A Meditation on John Coltrane

A00049 - Wild World

A00050 - Owamni and Yoasobi

A00051 - A Tale of Two Memorial Services

A00052 - The Integration of Country Music

A00053 - The Weekend Theme Song

A00054 - The Immortal Life of Art Laboe

A00055 - Music from the Barrio

A00056 - In Praise of Omar

A00057 - The Songbird of Asia

A00058 - Sara Tavares, R.I.P.

A00059 - Zahara, R.I.P.

A00060 - Freshlyground

A00061 - Cloud 9 on MLK Day

A00062 - The Soul of Bentley and The Colors of the Wind

A00063 - And the Grammy Goes to Tyla for "Water"

A00064 - Toby Keith, R.I.P.

A00065 - Must See TV for February 2024: PBS: Gospel Live! and Gospel

A00066 - There's Something On Your Mind

A00067 - Must See TV for February 2024: PBS: Gospel Live! and Gospel: A Review

A00068 - Goree Carter, The Forefather of Rock and Roll

A00069 - Henry Fambrough, The Last of the Original Spinners

A00070 - It Won't Be Like This For Long

A00071 - Red Baraat on Holi

A00072 - Eleanor Collins, Ruby Sneed, and the Black Canadian Experience

A00073 - Heal the World

A00074 - The Magical Music of Maurice El Medioni, The Pianist Who Fused Jewish and Arab Music into Andalous

A00075 - We Are the World

A00076 - A Very Special Mother's Day

A00077 - TLC Forever

A00078 - Durand Jones & The Indications

A00079 - Toumani Diabate, The Great Kora Master, R.I.P.

A00080 - The Sounds of the Universe and the Music of the Spheres

A00081 - Misia, Fabulous Fado Singer, R.I.P.

A00082 - After 50 Years Why Haven't We Made More Progress?: The Absence of Curtis Mayfield

A00083 - Sergio Mendes, R. I. P.

A00084 - Frankie Beverly, R. I. P.

A00085 - Happy Feelin's with the Soul Bird

A00086 - Hugh Price and the Waters of Bellagio 

A00087 - Traer Price's The Prayer Water Choreography

A00088 - The Wandering Day

A00089 - Joseph Clarence Chambers, Jr. (Amherst College Class of 1930), Composer of "All American Suite for Two Pianos"

A00090 - The Eternal Essence of Quincy Jones


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Saturday, September 14, 2024

A00080 - The Sounds of the Universe and the Music of the Spheres

 



Bob and Wayne,

Thank you for your informative responses. And Bob thank you especially for the reference to the Music of the Spheres. It may take me a while to go all the way through Professor Ruff's talk.  However, the notion of the music of the spheres prompted me to immediately want to know what the latest research on this might be.  The following article and NPR oral report is what I found.

I think that if you listen to it carefully, you might be able to hear eternity.

Enjoy.

Everett "Skip" Jenkins 
Fairfield, California
August 16, 2024 


On Friday, August 16, 2024 at 05:53:11 AM PDT, Bob wrote and sent the following interview::
 

On Thursday, August 15, 2024, 11:29:29 AM EDT, skipjen2865@aol.com <skipjen2865@aol.com> wrote:


Twenty years ago, I wrote a book entitled The Creation: Secular, Jewish, Catholic, Protestant and Muslim Perspectives Analyzed.  In that book, I took a deep look at the first eleven chapters of the book of Genesis and the story of Creation contained therein.  I analyzed it from not just Protestant perspective but also from Jewish, Catholic and Muslim perspectives.  I also was able to access a copy of James Ussher's The Annals of the World 


It is in this 1658 treatise that Bishop Ussher established a timeline for the creation of the world with the year of creation being set at 4004 B.C.  Alongside, Ussher's chronology, I created my own Creation chronology.  In my Creation chronology, it began with creation occurring some 15 Billion Years Ago and followed a more scientific chronology for the formation the universe from the time of the Big Bang.  

My time frame may have been off.  Most scientists assert that the Big Bang occurred some 13.7 Billion Years Agon and not the 15 Billion that I stated.  Nevertheless, my fairly detailed chronology is more accurate that the chronology of Bishop Ussher.  As it should be, I had the advantage of 350 years of scientific knowledge that the dear Bishop did not have.

Since that endeavor of twenty years ago, I have had an intense interest in the bewildering changes that have been occurring with regard to our knowledge and perception of the universe. The presence of dark matter and dark energy intrigue me and the revelations of the pictures taken by the James Webb Space Telescope 


of patches of empty space which revealed that the empty space was filled with galaxies brought a smile.  

The universe is much different than we think.  Here are some excerpts which indicate just how different it may be ... even for those who should know,

Peace,

Everett "Skip" Jenkins

Excerpts from pages 78 and 79:

For almost half a century physicists agonized over the question of what happens to the stuff that falls into a black hole.  If, as theory predicts, black holes destroy information about everything that has ever fallen in, then our theories of nature are in deep, foundational trouble.  In recent years, though, scientists made a breakthrough that might finally solve the puzzle.  

*****
In 1974 Stephen Hawking realized that black holes evaporate.  

Just like a puddle of water out in the sun, a black hole will slowly shrink, particle by particle, until nothing is left at all.

*****
Quantum physics theorizes that empty space isn't actually empty.

Instead pairs of so-called virtual particles continuously arise out of the vacuum.
 
These pairs usually stay together and annihilate each other, except for the unlucky few that arise on either side of a black hole's boundary, called its event horizon.

In that case, one member of the pair can get trapped within the horizon ..

....while the other carries energy away. 

*****
Eventually this negative energy shrivels the black hole down to nothing. 

But if black holes can be destroyed, then so can all the information about what fell into them. 

*****
That seems to break a fundamental law of physics, which says that information can never be destroyed.

This the paradox.

In the past few years a unique solution has revealed itself: wormholes.

Wormholes are theoretical bridges in spacetime that connect two distant spots through a shortcut.

*****

The inside of a black hole could be connectect to the inside of another black hole via a wormhole.

Though rare, it's theoretically possible.

*****

And in quantum physics, everything that can happen, does happen.

A particle doesn't simply travel along one particular path from point A to point B.

*****

If wormholes are at the center of black holes, information pulled within may not be destroyed.

Instead the interiors of black holes seem to contain special areas deep inside called islands.

These islands are both inside and outside the black holes, as if they are part of the escaping radiation that is depleting the black holes over time.

And as they escape, the information within them escapes too.

*****
These new ideas are pretty confounding, even to physicists, who are discovering that the cosmos and the nature of our reality are even weirder that we could have ever imagined.

*****
Really!?

Peace,

Everett "Skip" Jenkins 
 


----- Forwarded Message -----
From: skipjen2865@aol.com <skipjen2865@aol.com>
To: 
Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2024 at 08:48:00 PM PDT
Subject: Magazine of the Month for the Month of July 2024: Scientific American: Special Edition: Dark Universe: All the Darkness We Cannot See

"Humans have always looked to the stars.  Those pinpricks of light in the vast blackness spark curiosity, wonder and awe.  Our newest orbiting observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021 and is sending back jaw-dropping images of visible and infrared light from galaxies, star-nursery nebulas and supermassive stars.  More than 25 years ago, astrophysicists discovered that rather than slowing down as it expands, the universe is in fact speeding up; some invisible force between the points and clusters of light is making the universe careen off in every direction.  The cosmos is brimming with this so-called dark energy and other mysterious phenomena.

"The empty vacuum of space is alive with exotic particles flashing in and out of existence.  Some of them -- whether so-called WIMPs, axions, or other, as yet undiscovered particles -- may be the invisible dark matter pulling galaxies together. Some stars might be fueled by the annihilation of dark matter itself.

"There are sprawling voids in space, some hundreds of millions of light-years across, whose emptiness scientists think is the ideal zone for studying less understood particles such as neutrinos.  Some galaxies are made primarily of dark matter and contain very few stars.  Stranger still, earlier this year astronomers reported the discovery of a galaxy emitting a radio signal but hardly any visible light.

"The darkest places we know of are undoubtedly black holes. Their gravitational hearts devour all light, and scientists suspect that the space inside black holes is stretchy and could grow forever or connect to other black holes through wormholes in spacetime. The existence of black holes was first hypothesized by Albert Einstein, but it took a century to capture an image of one, and even that image is of just the fiery ring of matter wrapping around the penumbra of the event horizon -- the black hole remains faceless. 

"The explanations for these dark phenomena may be found in points of light.  JWST has spotted bulky galaxies from the early days after the big bang.  Their existence could signal a potential alternative way for black holes to form.

"One of the more mind-bending hypotheses in cosmology is that our universe could be a holographic projection of a lower dimension.  This concept has led to new ideas about black holes and the early universe.  Spacetime itself may not be an inherent feature of the universe; instead it could arise from a more basic framework of the cosmos.  And Nobel Prize -- winning physicists have shown that our reality is not necessarily ... real.

"Humans peer at the stars, yes, but we are limited by our eyes, perceiving only 0.0035 percent of the electromagnetic spectrum.  We can't see radio waves, x-rays or heat, never mind other forces such as gravity or magnetism, but innovative technology is allowing us to understand some of the unseen.  The totality is mostly still hidden from us in darkness, but that doesn't mean we'll stop looking."

*****

This magazine is ultra cool.  One of my great pleasures is seeing the photo of the rainbow galaxy (Galaxy J0613+52) which is a galaxy as massive as the Milky Way but which is almost entirely devoid of stars.  When astronomers view the galaxy what is seen is mostly a rainbow reflecting the receding view of the massive gas within. 

Amazing!

Everett "Skip" Jenkins

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From: skipjen2865@aol.com <skipjen2865@aol.com>
To: Everett Jenkins <skipjen2865@aol.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 9, 2024 at 02:42:09 AM PDT
Subject: Magazine of the Month for the Month of July 2024: Scientific American: Special Edition: Dark Universe:

Growing up in the High Desert town of Victorville, California, one the truly spectacular sights occurs almost every night when the stars begin to emerge and shine.  In the High Desert in the 1960s and early 1970s, the town of Victorville only had 15,000 people and the light pollution was minor.  So, for many Summer nights, an African American boy could go outside, look up, and dream about worlds where life would be better.

Fast forward sixty years, and that African American boy is now 70 years old.  He still has a fascination with stars, but he marvels at the notion that all he can see -- that all anyone can see -- is only a small portion of what must be. How can that be?

Well, while waiting in the Portland Airport after my Bucket List adventure in Eugene, Oregon, I spotted a magazine that immediately caught my attention.  The magazine was a Special Edition of Scientific American magazine, and the title of the magazine is "Dark Universe: Mysterious cosmic phenomena shape reality itself". This magazine actually tries to explain how the visible universe is really only five percent of the universe and that there is more than five times more dark matter and 14 times more dark energy in the universe than there is what we can see.

Intrigued, I purchased the magazine and began reading it.  

After reading a portion of it, I decided that I would make this magazine my first ever Magazine of the Month, and I invite all who can, to join me in learning how to measure the weight of nothing.  Fascinating stuff, it is.

Peace,

Everett "Skip" Jenkins


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