# mockingbird (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover mockingbird. Page: Feed: --- ## [Finding Bigfoot](https://shoreacres.wordpress.com/2026/07/24/finding-bigfoot/) _2026-07-24 · shoreacres · The Task at Hand_ Perhaps a decoy to draw in the real thing? While traveling home from a hill country visit, south of Devine’s sunflower fields yet still north of the turn toward Jourdanton, I noticed an odd name on an official state road sign: Bigfoot. Despite occasional reports of mysterious creatures roaming our swamps or pineywoods, finding Bigfoot … Continue reading Finding Bigfoot ## [Summer: The Shuttered Season](https://shoreacres.wordpress.com/2026/07/11/summer-the-shuttered-season/) _2026-07-12 · shoreacres · The Task at Hand_ Even those whose lives blossom under the heat of a coastal sun can become ambivalent about summer’s realities. Eagerly anticipated through winter’s dormancy, desired for its warmth and coveted for its beauty, Gulf Coast summers inevitably end as a season of imprisonment. Rising heat and implacable humidity transform the pleasures of earlier, more temperate … Continue reading Summer: The Shuttered… ## [Celebration on a Human Scale](https://shoreacres.wordpress.com/2026/07/02/celebration-on-a-human-scale/) _2026-07-03 · shoreacres · The Task at Hand_ Fireworks over Houston’s Buffalo Bayou Thanks to copious rains, much of Texas no longer is in drought, and fireworks sellers are sprouting up like mushrooms. From family-friendly sparklers and snakes to larger and more dramatic displays common along the waterfront, everyone seems to love the color and noise of Independence Day. The most color and … Continue reading Celebration on a Human Scale ## [The Poets’ Birds ~ The Mockingbird’s Secret Song](https://shoreacres.wordpress.com/2026/05/16/the-poets-birds-the-mockingbirds-secret-song/) _2026-05-16 · shoreacres · The Task at Hand_ A Northern Mockingbird waiting to sing to the sky As much as a bumblebee’s hum, a cicada’s harsh trill, or the whistle of nighthawk wings, the repetitive yet creative cacophony of neighborhood mockingbirds is one of nature’s most recognizable sounds. Northern Mockingbirds (Mimus polyglottos) typically sing from February through August before beginning again in September … Continue reading The… ## [Easter Laughter](https://shoreacres.wordpress.com/2026/04/05/easter-laughter/) _2026-04-05 · shoreacres · The Task at Hand_ Mary Magdalene Discovering the Tomb ~ Herschel Pollard The early Christian practice of risus paschalis – Easter laughter – arose after early church fathers began promoting the view that Jesus’s resurrection represented the ultimate practical joke; played by God on the devil, it affirmed the triumph of life over death and good over evil. Joke-telling … Continue reading Easter Laughter ## [Phish Announces MSG NYE Run, Dec. 28 - 31](https://phish.net/story/84t9ot) _2024-10-01 · donotreply@phish.net (Icculus) · Phish.Net_ PHISH has announced that they'll perform four shows at Madison Square Garden beginning Saturday, December 28, through Tuesday, December 31.The Phish Tickets request period is underway and will run until noon e.t. on Monday, October 7. The general public onsale is Friday, October 11, at noon e.t. A limited number of travel packages (hotel + tickets) will go on sale tomorrow, Wednesday, October 2,… ## [HAPPY 60TH BIRTHDAY, TREY!](http://phi.sh/b/66facb1a) _2024-09-30 · donotreply@phish.net (phishnet) · Phish.Net_ Feeling grateful for Trey's sobriety and decades of generosity, including the Beacon Jams during a tremendously difficult time for the world four years ago? Please consider celebrating Trey's life by donating in his honor in any amount that you can to the Divided Sky Foundation , the WaterWheel Foundation , or The Mockingbird Foundation , three charities that Trey cares greatly about and that he… ## [Phish Studies 101 webinar almost here!](http://phi.sh/b/66f1c4b2) _2024-09-23 · donotreply@phish.net (phishnet) · Phish.Net_ Thanks to Jnan Blau ( @thephunkydrb ) for this exciting update!\] Greetings, phans and phellow phreaks! Your attention, please... Phish Studies 101 is now officially ready to go. A lecture series by and for Phish nerds across the Phishiverse. A webinar series that will absolutely scratch your itch to love and appreciate Phish even more, experience and understand the band, the experience, and the… ## [From the Forum 2: "Mike's Song" in late '92 and "Weekapaug Groove" in early '93](http://phi.sh/b/66e86890) _2024-09-19 · donotreply@phish.net (phishnet) · Phish.Net_ \["From the Forum " is a running blog feature that highlights quality posts from the Phish.net forum to share more broadly. This edition was originally posted by @Flubhead on July 13, 2024. If you would like to listen along to the versions of songs mentioned in this blog post, open the accompanying playlist on phish.in . -Ed.\] The long and rollicking history of the Mike's Groove suite is full of… ## [Sabotage Shirts & Collage Auction](https://phish.net/story/8462mq) _2024-09-19 · donotreply@phish.net (Lemuria) · Phish.Net_ Two amazing and anonymous supporters of the Mockingbird Foundation have contributed interesting and compelling art to help fund music education for children. One began making a "Sabotage" design some time ago, hoping that the band would play it again. Originally with The Hampton Coliseum, the design has been updated with a Dick's option, celebrating that recent bustout. There are tumbler, t-shirt,… ## [Earn crypto from idle GPUs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Szp35yhepfWm) _2024-09-19 · **Sponsored**_ Run one CLI command, connect your GPU, and start receiving crypto payouts. ## [Summer Tour 2024 Reprise](http://phi.sh/b/66e34b65) _2024-09-15 · donotreply@phish.net (phishnet) · Phish.Net_ \[We would like to thank @LizardwithaZ and @OrangeSox for contributing this to the blog. - Ed.\] It's usually difficult to see the exact trajectory of a tour happening in real time. Some may make statements early-on about it being the " best tour since \_\_\_\_\_\_" or any other number of superlatives, often rooted in the bias of recency, especially when mixed with the potent fuel of attendance. On the… ## [PHISH To Perform Benefit Shows For The Divided Sky Foundation In Albany On October 25-26-27](https://phish.net/story/83s5t7) _2024-09-11 · donotreply@phish.net (Icculus) · Phish.Net_ PHISH will perform its only shows this fall at MVP Arena in Albany, NY, on October 25, 26, and 27, with net proceeds from all concert and merch sales benefiting the Divided Sky Foundation and its Residential Recovery Program at its newly opened facility in Ludlow, VT. The ticket request period is underway now at https://tickets.phish.com and will end on Monday, September 16 at Noon ET. There will… ## [The First and Last Words from Dick's](http://phi.sh/b/66db3bf7) _2024-09-07 · donotreply@phish.net (Lemuria) · Phish.Net_ The 9th Annual Runaway Open (8/31 in Denver) featured a lyrics contest on the sponsor signs, continuing a pattern we started with the 8th . This year, that same bottom-right corner of the signs had the date of a previous Dick's show and either "first" or "last", referring to the first or last word that Phish sang at each of those shows. Those words, in hole order, made a sentence - and the first… ## [Phish Studies 101 Is Coming!](http://phi.sh/b/66da80d5) _2024-09-06 · donotreply@phish.net (phishnet) · Phish.Net_ Thanks to Jnan Blau ( @thephunkydrb ) for this exciting news!\] This, dear reader, is obviously a blog post on our beloved Dot Net. But it is also more than that. This here is also a heads-up, as well as a bit of an enjoinder. Maybe this is also a touch of a plea. It is certainly hoping to function as a woo-ing (not during-a-jam wooing, no no!) - you know, as in to woo (v.) someone. Most assuredly,… ## [Dick's4 Recap: So Long Summer 2024 and Thanks For All the Phish](http://phi.sh/b/66d5f3b8) _2024-09-02 · donotreply@phish.net (zzyzx) · Phish.Net_ \[We would like to thank David "Zzyzx" Steinberg ( @zzyzx ) for recapping last night's show. If you like this kind of writing you can find more on The Phish Stats Facebook Page , Twitter (mainly for Phish content), and Bluesky (much more present and engaged in conversation). -Ed.\] 9/1/24 was Phish's 42 nd time playing Dick's Sporting Goods Park . Only three venues - Madison Square Garden , Nectar's…