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Music apps I want to check out (when I have time)

An American perspective on the Dutch holiday tradition of Sinterklaas.

From Wikipedia: In the British colonies of North America and later the United States, British and Dutch versions of the gift-giver merged further. For example, in Washington Irving’s History of New York, (1809), Sinterklaas was Americanized into “Santa Claus” (a name first used in the American press in 1773) but lost his bishop’s apparel, and was at first pictured as a thick-bellied Dutch sailor with a pipe in a green winter coat. (More on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus)

This moves me - this is why I love social media and why I’m excited to be watching these developments from up close.

Beautiful portraits of Americans across the US

Can’t get this song out of my head. Beautiful!

Obama said all the right things in all the right ways. Goosebumps!

(Watch parts 2 and 3 too!)

Black Rock City from above