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17 March 2026
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17 March 2026
This event began 03/17/2025 and repeats every year forever
Read a story from my good news calendar
https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-good-news-blog-stories-through-a-year/?tab=comments#comment-889
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A little boy in the house with his father side mother, come into the study of his father. He hold a coloring page.
Hey Papa, my school wanted me to color this shamrock image any color I wanted and share it online"
The father look on and say: "Nice choice of green son"
"What do you know about Saint Patrick's Day Papa": inquire the son. The father nip his son. His son rub the nipped spot and give a little smile, in a face of confusion.
The father open his arms and the son sit on his lap, coloring page in hand: "Your grandmere nipped me if I didn't wear green on Saint Patrick's day, but beyond a little, I do not know much. We are not Irish. But I know someone who knows far far more"
"Oh yeah, who dad"
"Well, where do I begin..."
Many years in the past, the father, a younger man, unmarried unparent, stand in front of a bar downtown Manhattan. A poster is in their window, and the day is Saint Patrick's day.
He goes inside and take a seat side friends. A waitress come by and ask what they will drink. R and LD, or D and A want Guinnesses. The father to be, alone, choose the same. A waitress come by with a drink.
He takes his sip and all five enjoy the day. As the sun is soon to sleep, the two couples go to their homes and the husband to be is alone, walking to fifty ninth street. He could had gone into the train station to get on the A train back home to Harlem, before the Blacks were pushed out. But, he chose to take a seat on a park bench and think of a lady on the other side of a southern sea. He walk about a bench when he gets a nip. He lift his foot up and he can not believe it. A little man is looking up at him.
"Amadán mór thú!" : yell the little man and he continue: "Ní thuigeann tú mé ... ahhh watch were ya going you fathach seacláide!"
The father to be look to the street.
"Iontach!, what do you think you are doing, dreaming, or drunk"
The husband to be squat and speak to the little man:"maybe I am"
The little man howl a laugh: "I once out drank Fionn mac Cumhaill who as a boy was better than most men, when he last saw his wife, before he ventured away I challenged him to a contest of wine made in the deepest cave in Tir na nog by the loveliest tuathe de women... ahhh now we were truly drunk, you are merely a weak bellied"
The father to be rise: "well, I apologize, happy saint paddy day"
"AHHHH!!!": the little man yell out:"You dhaoine associate the shamrock with that blue scarved baiste, that is not the truth". The husband to be, sit on a park bench. The little man sit next to him, and he look out.
"Don't worry, none can see me": and the little man continue to shine a shoe, a pendant made for a bigger neck rolled up at his side, and he continue as the father to be smile at him: "the truth is, saint patrick was a good man, but he never wanted all this philandering and ag ol. He wanted calm, serenity, for when the real magic happens"
"Real magic?": query the husband to be.
"Yes, like when someone like you step on an old shoe shiner like me": the little man hold the medallion and continue: "You need to be transported to a church for that old saint Patrick, the banshee will be there"
The husband to be startle: "banshee"
The little man laugh:" calm down, a banshee isn't like in your te-le-vi-sion stories, banshees are helpful, very helpful... they tell you who will pass away soon, sometimes appearing as loving ones". The little man throw the medallion to the husband to be and snap his fingers. Suddenly, the father to be is in a church.
eemingly empty, the father to be hear names in the wind. He walk down the isle of the church looking for the speaker.
He opines to the calm air in the church:"Ms or MRS Banshee"
He hears names over and over, whispered. The air begin to mist and the voices get louder. He feels a cool behind him and sees a female emanation, that look like a stranger
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She wails out names, and turns into a younger girl, and then a man, and then an elder. The husband to be do not comprehend why so many, who is going to be gone. The father to be then realize the truth. The medallion shine in his hand, and he snap from the church to the bench.
The father to be look incredulous at the little man:" I don't get it"
"The lesson is for you to figure out, that is what your kin never comprehend, the world you call magic is safe, so are old folk like from it, but your lives are mortal, are fragile, but your spirits are eternal, their magic is why we can speak to you sometimes, try to guide you, though..." : and the little man disappear from sight, the medallion leave the hand of the father to be, and the voice of the little man continue:"... we usually fail"
The father to be rock in the park bench and get up, shaking his head, before the trek into the subway.
Back in the present, his son ask a question.
"Did you remember the names you heard, ever see that little man again?"
The father hold the son tight: "no, I can not recall any name, but today I realize, the lesson"
The son ask wondering: "what lesson"
"The kin of each person is each other person"
"Ceia is ready!": a female voice call out.
The son run out of the room, the father smile behind him, and exit his chair. The father get to the door and he hear the sound of a tiny cobbler, and smile without turning back, to get his supper.
THE END
I only had one work of art in my deviantart gallery that returned something visual from green/luck/rainbow , but i found numerous in my favorites
https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/March-on-Green-Feature-expose-1168543402
If you like my story consider reading the following
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/sunset-children-stories
The irish song I like the most is one I first heard in a movie called the Nephew, in english , from 1998.
LYRICS referrals
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/fill-fill-run-return-return-my-love.html
https://genius.com/Anuna-fill-fill-a-run-lyrics
Lyrics in irish
Fill, fill a rún [Verse 1] Ó crá ort, a shagairt Uí Domhnaill Nach dona go deo mar a d'imigh tú Ó léigh sé an tAifreann Dé Domhnaigh 's bhí sé maidin Dé Luan ina mhinistir [Chorus] Ó fill, ó fill a rún ó Fill a rún ó Is ná h’imigh uaim Ó Fill orm a chuisle ‘s a stóirín Ó is gheo-ghaidh tú an ghlóir má fhillean tú [Verse 2] Dá bheic-feadh sibh Neilí Dé Dómhaigh 'S a gúna bhán go sala uirthi Búclai buí in a bróga 's í á tarraingt sa ród mar phúca [Chorus] Ó fill, ó fill a rún ó Fill a rún ó Is ná h’imigh uaim Ó Fill orm a chuisle ‘s a stóirín Ó is gheo-ghaidh tú an ghlóir má fhillean tú [Verse 3] Tá malacht na sagart 's na mbráithre leat I do mhála ag imeacht duit 'S nach measa duit malacht do mháthartha Ná á bhaca tú aIríamh den bhunadh sin [Chorus] Ó fill, ó fill a rún ó Fill a rún ó Is ná h’imigh uaim Ó Fill orm a chuisle ‘s a stóirín Ó is gheo-ghaidh tú an ghlóir má fhillean tú Verse 4 Ó thréigh tú Peadar is Pól, agus Thréigh tú Eoin is an bhunadh sin Ó thréigh tú an Mhaighdeán ’s an ghlóir, is Nach dona go deo mar a d'imigh tú [Chorus] Ó fill, ó fill a rún ó Fill a rún ó Is ná h’imigh uaim Ó Fill orm a chuisle ‘s a stóirín Ó is gheo-ghaidh tú an ghlóir má fhillean tú
Lyrics in english
Return, Return my Love Oh woe unto you, oh1 priest Ó Domhnaill Don't ever be so wretched as when you left Oh he performed the mass on Sunday And was a minister2 on Monday morning Oh return, oh return, my love, oh Return, my love, oh, don't leave my side Oh return, my beloved3 and my darling oh And you'll receive the glory if you do return If you could see Neilí on Sunday And her white dress with heels on her Yellow buckles on the shoes She is being dragged in the street like a puck4 Oh return, oh return, my love, oh Return, my love, oh, don't leave my side Oh return, my beloved3 and my darling oh And you'll receive the glory if you do return The curse of the priests and the brothers5 You carry with you in your leaving bag And worse for you your maternal6 curse Don't ever block yourself from that heritage Oh return, oh return, my love, oh Return, my love, oh, don't leave my side Oh return, my beloved3 and my darling oh And you'll receive the glory if you do return Oh, you forsook Peter and Paul And you forsook John and this heritage Oh you forsook the Maiden and her glory, and Don't ever be as wretched as when you left Oh return, oh return, my love, oh Return, my love, oh, don't leave my side Oh return, my beloved3 and my darling oh And you'll receive the glory if you do return 1. vocative particle can be translated as oh or sometimes as my 2. i.e. he changed sides from Catholic to Protestant 3. a. b. c. d. literally: pulse 4. Irish mythical beings considered to be bringers both of good and bad fortune 5.religious brothers 6.or your mother's curse
https://youtu.be/FjGSsBmZtOY?t=619
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17 March 2026
This event began 03/17/2025 and repeats every year forever
These are all the songs in the Nat King Cole Trio recordings that were composed by black writers.
Easy Listening Blues
composed by Nadine Robinson [ nat king cole's first wife; they met on tour with the play "Shuffle Along" [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuffle_Along ]] ]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws1igAr1pY4
This way out
composed by Nat King Cole [ the first song he recorded that he composed]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_l3oDI3e7E
Honeysuckle Rose
written + composed by Fats Waller + Andy Razaf (Andriamanantena Paul Razafinkarefo) [for the off broadway play [["Load of Coal"]] at Connie's Inn]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6Xcyvd5hpU
Lyrics
Every honey bee fills with jealousy,<br> when they see you out with me.<br> Goodness knows<br> You're my Honeysuckle Rose<br> When you're passin' by flowers droop and sigh,<br> and I know the reason why.<br> Goodness knows<br> You're my Honeysuckle Rose<br> Don't buy sugar,<br> You just have to touch my cup.<br> You're my sugar.<br> It's sweeter when you stir it up.<br> When I'm taking sips from your tasty lips<br> seems the honey fairly drips.<br> Goodness knows<br> You're my Honeysuckle Rose<br> Guitar solo<br> Goodness knows<br> You're my Honeysuckle Rose<br> Don't buy sugar,<br> You just have to touch my cup.<br> You're my sugar.<br> It's sweeter when you stir it up.<br> When I'm taking sips from your tasty lips<br> seems the honey fairly drips.<br> Goodness knows<br> You're my Honeysuckle Rose
Waller + Razaff also did
Aint Misbehavin lyrics + composition from Razaf + waller
for a musical revue "Hot Chocolates" ... financed by dutch schultz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ8fWP6a3Q4
<p> AINT MISBEHAVIN<br> No one to talk with<br> All by myself<br> No one to walk with<br> But I'm happy<br> On the shelf<br> Ain't misbehavin'<br> I'm savin' my love for you </p> <p> I know for certain<br> The one I love<br> I'm through with flirtin'<br> It's you that I'm thinkin' of<br> Ain't misbehavin'<br> I'm savin' my love for you </p> <p> Like Jack Horner<br> In the corner<br> Don't go nowhere<br> What do I care?<br> Your kisses<br> Are worth waitin' for<br> Believe me </p> <p> I don't stay out late<br> Don't care to go<br> I'm home about eight<br> Just me and my radio<br> Ain't misbehavin'<br> I'm savin' my love for you<br> Ain't misbehavin'<br> I'm savin' my love for you </p>
Razaf wrote this classic, originally for the musical revue "Hot chocolates" with music by fats waller
"(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHCPM7K0evc
LYRICS
Cold empty bed, springs hurt my head<br> Feels like ole ned, wished I was dead<br> What did I do to be so black and blue<br> Even the mouse ran from my house<br> They laugh at you and all that you do<br> What did I do to be so black and blue<br> I'm white inside but, that don't help my case<br> ThIs life can't hide what is in my face<br> How would it end ain't got a friend<br> My only sin is in my skin<br> What did I do to be so black and blue<br> How would it end I ain't got a friend<br> My only sin is in my skin<br> What did I do to be so black and blue
NOTES to black and blue
He demanded a comedy song for a lady who says how tough it is to be black...He literally put a gun to Andy's head and told him that if he didn't write it he would never write again. The opening-night response to the song was silence -people were stunned. Then they went crazy. Andy hadn't written the comedy song Schultz wanted, but because it was a hit, Schultz left him alone.
— Barry Singer, author of "Black and Blue: The Life and Lyrics of Andy Razaf
[Holden, Stephen (8 February 1989). "A Lot of Hit Songs from an Unsung Lyricist". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 May 2024. ; https://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/08/arts/a-lot-of-hit-songs-from-an-unsung-lyricist.html ]
And Edgar Sampson wrote Stompin at the Savoy
Straighten up and fly right
written by Nat King Cole + Irving Mills
Composed by Nat King Cole
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-4VTlQlros
LYRICS
A buzzard took a monkey for a ride in the air<br> The monkey thought that everything was on the square<br> The buzzard tried to throw the monkey off his back<br> But the monkey grabbed his neck and said, "Now listen, Jack"<br> Straighten up and fly right<br> Straighten up and stay right<br> Straighten up and fly right<br> Cool down, papa, don't you blow your top<br> Ain't no use in divin'<br> What's the use in jivin'?<br> Straighten up and fly right<br> Cool down, papa, don't you blow your top<br> The buzzard told the monkey<br> You are chokin' me<br> Release your hold and I'll set you free<br> The monkey looked the buzzard right<br> Dead in the eye and said<br> "Your story's so touching, but it sounds<br> Just like a lie"<br> Straighten up and fly right<br> Straighten up and stay right<br> Straighten up and fly right<br> Cool down, papa, don't you blow your top<br> Straighten up and fly right<br> Straighten up and stay right<br> Straighten up and fly right<br> Cool down, papa, don't you blow your top<br> Fly right
I Love You ( For sentimental reasons )
written by Ivory "Deek" Watson of the Ink Spots + William "Pat" Best of the Four Tunes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUnguqPxzNU
LYRICS
I love you<br> For sentimental reasons<br> I hope you do believe me<br> I'll give you my heart<br> I love you<br> And you alone were meant for me<br> Please give your loving heart to me<br> And say we'll never part<br> I think of you every morning<br> Dream of you every night<br> Darling I'm never lonely<br> Whenever you are in sight<br> I love you for sentimental reasons<br> I hope you do believe me<br> I've given you my heart<br> I love you for sentimental reasons<br> I hope you do believe me<br> I've given you my heart
YOu know the Ink Spots
"Memories of You" written by Razaf and Eubie blake [ The song was introduced by singer Minto Cato in the Broadway show Lew Leslie's Blackbirds of 1930. ]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg5Dv_QYwJI
Memories of You from Andy Razaf<br> VERSE 1 <br><br> <p> Why can't I forget like I should?<br> Heaven knows I would if I could<br> But I just can't keep you off my mind.<br> Though you're gone and love was in vain,<br> All around me you still remain.<br> Wonder why fate should be so unkind. </p> <p> REFRAIN </p> <p> Waking skies<br> At sunrise,<br> Ev'ry sunset, too,<br> Seems to be<br> Bringing me<br> Memories of you.<br> Here and there,<br> Ev'rywhere,<br> Scenes that we once knew,<br> And they all<br> Just recall<br> Memories of you.<br> How I wish I could forget those<br> Happy yesteryears<br> That have left a rosary of tears.<br> Your face beams<br> In my dreams,<br> 'Spite of all I do,<br> Ev'rything<br> Seems to bring<br> Memories of you. </p> <p> VERSE 2 </p> <p> Though for years we've been apart,<br> Time heals ev'rything but my heart<br> That still aches for you the same old way.<br> Seems I can't escape from the past,<br> And your spell keeps holding me fast,<br> Each tomorrow is like yesterday. </p> <p> REPEAT REFRAIN </p>
Memories of YOu from Thelonius Monk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhxIIhA_JVk
From Eubie Blake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw9KzKJJjPs
You know the Four Tunes
"I Understand (Just How You Feel)" written by Pat Best
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=achpJtgdDNk
LYRICS
I understand just how you feel<br> Your love for me, why not be mine?<br> It's over now but it was grand<br> I understand, I understand<br> If you ever change your mind<br> Come back to me and you will find<br> Me waiting there, at your command<br> I understand, I understand<br> I miss you so, please believe me when I tell you<br> I just can't stand to see you go<br> You know<br> If you ever change your mind<br> Come back to me and you will find<br> Me waiting there at your command<br> I understand, I understand<br> Please understand just how I feel<br> Your love for me why not reveal<br> And we will know this time it's real<br> We'll understand
You Are My Love (1955 song) written by Jimmie Nabbie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTqBYz5Rouo
LYRICS
<p> You are my love, (you are my love)<br> My one and only!<br> When you're not near, (when you're not near)<br> I'm oh, so lonely! </p> <p> You are my love, (you are my love)<br> And please believe me,<br> There's not another,<br> There'll be no other one for me!# </p> <p> I sigh and cry<br> And long for you, (and long for you)<br> Oh my darling, my dear one,<br> Oooh-ooh-ooh-ooh! </p> <p> You are my love, (you are my love)<br> And please believe me,<br> There's not another,<br> There'll be no other one for me! </p> <p> I sigh and cry<br> And long for you,<br> Oh my darling, my dear one,<br> Oooh-ooh-ooh-ooh! </p> <p> You are my love, (you are my love)<br> And please believe me,<br> There's not another,<br> There'll be no other one for me!<br> (you are my love) are my love! </p>
Those who know me know I love Nat King Cole , and I can place all the music he made, remember, the song is a collaborative project, you can write a song, but can you sing it?
The Portrait of Jenny
lyrics J. Russel Robinson, Gordon Burdge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLTPhJMddxc
LYRICS so lovely i can't resist<br> A Portrait of Jennie<br> More precious to me<br> Than a masterpiece<br> How ever famous it be<br> The portrait of Jennie<br> Is etched on my heart<br> Where her features have been<br> Sketched from the start<br> Ah, the color and beauty of life<br> And the glow of her spirit divine<br> All cast in heaven's own design<br> With a portrait of Jennie<br> I never will part<br> For there isn't any portrait of Jennie<br> Except in my heart<br> For there isn't any portrait of Jennie<br> Except in my heart
Fly Me To The Moon ( In Other Words )
lyrics+composition from George Shearing, Nat King Cole
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rABO0_pvims
LYRICS<br> Poets often use many words to say a simple thing<br> It takes thought and time and rhyme<br> To make a poem sing<br> With music and words I've been playing<br> For you, I have written a song<br> To be sure that you'll know what I'm saying<br> I'll translate as I go along<br> Fly me to the moon<br> And let me play among the stars<br> Let me see what spring is like<br> On Jupiter and Mars<br> In other words, hold my hand<br> In other words, darling kiss me<br> Fill my heart with song<br> And let me sing forever more<br> You are all I long for<br> All I worship and adore<br> In other words, please be true<br> In other words, I love you<br> Fill my heart with song<br> And let me sing forever more<br> You are all I long for<br> All I worship and adore<br> In other words, please be true<br> In other words, I love you
COMMENTARIES
03192026
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@ProfD
On 3/18/2026 at 2:19 PM, ProfD said:
The late, great Nat King Cole was a real troubadour & excellent musician.
Colorism goes way back. They did this to Nat King Cole for a TV appearance:
I know, but I look at it another way. Black people like Nat King Cole, like Frederick Douglass, MLK jr, James Forten, Michelle side Barrack Obama have always existed in the usa or the white european colonies/dominions that proceded it.
Black people like Nat King Cole say to non blacks, non black dosers, that I will treat you with respect, with civility , even if you don't treat me the same. And not because I want to be humiliated or insulted or because I am weak, but because I treasure peace even amongst you... especially amongst you. I don't want to live my life fighting whites every day. That to me is what Nat King Cole, Billy Eckstine (that whites treated sinfully) Nichelle Nichols (who suffered a lot of crow for the idea of Uhura who lives among the non black humans in the future:) far far future in peace, sorry non humans still a way to go for that) and other entertainers are saying. They fully know the Nat turners, the Jean Jacques Dessalines, the Quilombos are in the community, black people who don't trust the non black, don't want to live civilly among the nonblack, are willing to be armed and violent to uphold the way of life they want to have. But, Nat King Cole and other blacks like him, are willing to trust, live civilly with, willing to be unprotected around the non black, not naively or stupidly but with hope.
That is the real point. Frederick Douglass's composite nation speech isn't suggesting the enslaver becomes the friend easily or overnight or simply. The enslaver becomes the abuser, the abuser becomes the trickster, the trickster becomes the dour, the dour may one day become the kin, the kin becomes the ally, the ally becomes the friend, the friend becomes the lover. Cause all awhile from enslaver to lover, the other was always the neighbor, no segregation ever existed, it was always integrated ,in various forms. So, if the black is to embrace civility living aside the non black in various forms, it is a process, part of that process is being told to where white face paint and giving in sometimes and not giving in other times.
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@aka Contrarian
is unforgettable your favrite nat king cole rendition?
@ProfD
a certain level of respect and admiration, interesting words you chose to describe levels that didn't include respect or admiration to nat king cole in his life from his enemies.
again, the issue isn't about black enemies, it is about black people gardless of their personal talents who are willing to live peacefully to the non black , it is that simple.
St patrick's day passed and I do like the film michael collins . Him and a few others in irish leadership really led to the movement that made a part of ireland free from england after 700 years, but the key moment was when he realized that the freedom the irish wanted the happiness the irish wanted as a people, not individuals, wasn't going to come through business ownership, marching, peitions, government engagement, they did all of that for centuries and it led to nothing. The only way ireland was going to be free, which is why irish in most of ireland today are truly free, is by killing english....
Agan, James Forten to NAt King Cole to various black folk today, live their lives to happiness in spite of the communities oppression. That to me is what warrants respect or admiration that is what nonblacks don't respect or admire. being entertaining doesn't grant you respect or admiration from the bully.
0322026
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@aka Contrarian Well from my assessment of history Douglass never left his black wife for his white mistress, whom if I am correct, killed herself...I checked, frederick douglass first wife died before he married his second wife. as for nat king cole, I knew he had cheated on his wife ,but I have never seen whom or any photos or anything. His wife I recall in some interview said he cheated and she went on tour in europe and came back and they continued their lives, he didn't have cancer when she came back but it started soon enough after. So in both cases, i wouldn't say as a male, they left their wives. Both men were always married to their black wives while having a white mistress.
@ProfD
yes, your correct, financial revenue, financial value for most , 99% , black folk in any industry in the usa historically is based on white dollars in the usa, always has been , i argue always will be based on the demographic reality. but financial revenue isn't respect or admiration. it is earned value labor something whites historically never want to give black people, and for the financial record, Nat King Cole was cheated money by whites. so earning money clearly doesn't yield respect or admiration, but if it is evenly done, it does pay the bills
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