A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

I took this photo of the man-made East Wind Lake during one of my daily walks around my former neighborhood in June of 2014. (Photo Credit: Alex Diaz-Granados - own work) Hello, Constant Reader, and welcome once again to Bloggin' On, the no-reviews, no-politics zone of A Certain Point of View where I talk about what I am up to and things that are on my mind. Think of it, if you will, as a blog-within-a-blog that lets you get to know me a little better. Right now it's past noon in my corner of Florida; the temperature outside is 75℉ (24℃) under partly sunny skies, which is comfortably nice for the season. The high temperature for the area is expected to reach 76℉ (24℃); the low tonight will be 56℉ (14℃), and no rain is expected to fall in our area, either. I had planned to write a review of John Denver: Rocky Mountain High - Live in Japan, but even though the DVD arrived yesterday afternoon, I have not watched it. When I went to bed last night, I promised myself tha

On June 18, 1995, two years before his untimely death in a plane crash off the California coast, John Denver made a rare concert appearance on what was then cable's Arts & Entertainment channel (now A&E). Supported by both a string quartet and a group of backup vocalists and musicians, Denver performed over 25 of his best-loved songs and ballads, as well as a cover of Steve Gillette and Tom Campbell's Darcy Farrow, which Denver often performed at his live concerts and recorded at least three times during his recording career. This concert and the companion two-CD album released by Sony Legacy on June 13, 1995 were titled John Denver: The Wildlife Concert because they were intended to raise awareness of one of Denver's many causes: wildlife and natural habitat preservation. Profits from sales of the album went to the Wildlife Conservation Society, a New York City-based organization that seeks to preserve over two million square miles of wild places around the glo