I often feel as though we have done a very poor job educating each other about this profoundly simple rule. Photo of red panda eating bamboo by Pexels from Pixabay One of my favorite “simple rules” is the rule/fact that we animals breathe out what plants need to stay alive (CO2) - and plants breathe out what WE need to stay alive (O2). One staffer explains that they felt that they were in a bubble (of privilege? of denial?) and thus ignored what the official guidelines were. Molly’s song has inspired me to think about other “simple rules” that we human beings would do well to honor.įor example, this morning I read details on a BBC website about how many of the staff members at 10 Downing Street chose to ignore the official guidelines for appropriate behavior during a pandemic.
We then fixed/mixed/tweaked/mastered it via Zoom with another great recording engineer, Doug Hammer - whose name will be familiar to many of my blog readers because he is also an astounding pianist with whom I have recorded many, many songs. Molly, Carole and I - as well as the recording engineer Peter Kontrimas at whose studio we were fortunate to book a session - were well-vaccinated AND wore masks except for when we were in our separate recording booths (connected via headphones with each other and with Peter). She created this lovely vocal arrangement for her and me and our friend Carole to sing - and we recorded it during a brief lull in the Covid pandemic last December. Molly is a songwriter, pianist, arranger and singer who recently retired from her day job at MIT. Today’s blog post features a song called “Simple Rules” written by my friend Molly Ruggles.
Molly, me and Carole after a porch gig in Maine
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