Yesterday I couldn’t post music. Today I have more than made up for it. I have posted my regular type songs, but I have also honored Harry Belafonte and his music. He died today at age 96.

https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/harry-belafonte-calypso-star-civil-rights-champion-dies-96-rcna42389

Today, Earth Day is widely recognized as the largest secular observance in the world, marked by more than a billion people every year as a day of action to change human behavior and create global, national and local policy changes.

Now, the fight for a clean environment continues with increasing urgency, as the ravages of climate change become more and more apparent every day. 

“Earth Day is the first holy day which transcends all national borders, yet preserves all geographical integrities, spans mountains and oceans and time belts, and yet brings people all over the world into one resonating accord, is devoted to the preservation of the harmony in nature and yet draws upon the triumphs of technology, the measurement of time, and instantaneous communication through space.”

Margaret Mead

I am taking the day off because I want to post tomorrow on St. Patrick’s Day. I could post both days I know, but a bit of a back rest day is a great idea, necessary actually. I’ll sit on the couch with a pillow behind my back, drink coffee and eat bonbons! See you tomorrow!

Two bits of information, the first related to comments. I used to get notified if anyone posted a comment then I’d go read and answer. I am no longer being notified. I checked how to fix it but nothing was wrong as far as the help told me so… now I go online to check for comments. I’m hoping as strangely as it disappeared it might reappear.

The second comment relates to today’s music theme. I was going to ask for guesses, and I know a few of you would have seen the answer right away. As for the rest of you, I’ll help.

I went looking for songs with present/s in the title. I seemed to have used most of them then a new page jumped into the queue. It was about the present prefect tense and classic songs. I took two then went looking for more, and I found two more so here it is, today’s theme: the present perfect tense. Enjoy!!

I’m heading out right now, but I’ll be back in the later afternoon to post the music. Come on back now!

Yesterday I brought my computer to a repair place where the owner is Apple certified. I used my password, and it opened. It started to recharge then stopped. The man rebooted, typed my password, and it was rejected. That confused him a bit. I figured my computer liked my touch. He noticed my wonky keyboard and told me that Apple is fixing the keyboards at no cost. He asked me if I had bought extended service. I said I didn’t remember, but it is something I would do. I did, and my computer is covered until next July. He was going to back up all my data then request a box from Apple for sending it safely. When it was returned, he’d load the data. He guess next week, Friday, for its return.

The iPad will let me copy links, but when I paste, it is the link, not the actual page. Now, here’s what I’m asking: would you click on the link for the song or not? I’m missing my Christmas songs, and until my computer is healed, that is the only way I can post. Please comment and let me know. p>

I’ll be back to post my selections of the day, but I need to get going to take Gwen to the vets. See you later!

These songs may seem to have nothing in common, but they do. They are among the 24 recordings just inducted into the National Recording Registry as “aural treasures worthy of preservation because of their cultural, historic and aesthetic importance to the nation’s recorded sound heritage.”

Tom Petty, the dynamic and iconoclastic frontman who led the band the Heartbreakers, died Monday. He was 66. Petty’s death was confirmed by Tony Dimitriades, longtime manager of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, on behalf of the family.

“On behalf of the Tom Petty family, we are devastated to announce the untimely death of of our father, husband, brother, leader and friend Tom Petty,” Dimitriades wrote. “He suffered cardiac arrest at his home in Malibu in the early hours of this morning and was taken to UCLA Medical Center but could not be revived. He died peacefully at 8:40 p.m. PT surrounded by family, his bandmates and friends.”

Full Obituary:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/tom-petty-rock-iconoclast-who-led-the-heartbreakers-dead-at-66-w506651