Daniel Hewitt

North Coast native, professionally retired photographer and full-time volunteer musicologist & cooking enthusiast extraordinaire to myself and entourage.

[Daniel Hewitt @dbhewitt]

#BLOVIATING
#WordOfTheDay

definition: #trump speaking...anywhere.

• Over-the-top verbosity: Using lots of words to say very little.
• Self-importance: Often done to impress or dominate a conversation.
• Lack of clarity or focus: Rambling without a clear point.

[Daniel Hewitt @dbhewitt]

@SpringNuts_ @20th_Centurygal Mary, or Mary's???? 😂

[Cap’tain Bob @BobTharin]

Have a nice Sunday, everybody. ☀️

Tougher Than the Rest.
Bruce Springsteen

[Cleveland Sports Talk @CLEsportsTalk]

Cleveland Sports Talk is using Browns (trash) funds to instead give away TWO CLEVELAND #GUARDIANS TICKETS to the first series!

Check it out CLICK:
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[Cap’tain Bob @BobTharin]

The Boss’s birthday gift? I can’t pick just one, so let’s enjoy the whole damn thing. 🎸

[Daniel Hewitt @dbhewitt]

@TheTweetOfGod her turn coming

[God @TheTweetOfGod]

Antlers. Anus. Slowly.

[Spring-Nuts @SpringNuts_]

Seventy-seven years.

From a little boy growing up in Freehold, to a teenager who picked up a guitar, made it talk to all of us in such a profound way, and found the thing that would change his life, to a young man chasing an impossible dream up and down the Jersey Shore.

From tiny clubs to the world’s biggest stadiums.

From Growin’ Up to Born to Run. From The Promised Land to Glory Days. From Kingdom of Days to Last Man Standing and Letter to You.

The face has changed. The years have passed. Friends have been gained and some painfully lost. There have been triumphs, heartbreaks, beginnings, endings, reunions and goodbyes.

But through every era, one thing has remained.

The music.

And somehow, as #springsteen grew older, those songs grew older right alongside us.

Songs we first heard as kids suddenly meant something completely different when we became adults. Songs about parents became songs about our parents. Songs about children became songs about our children. Songs about friendship, love, loss, mortality and hope began hitting places in us we couldn’t possibly have understood when we first heard them.

Maybe that’s one of Bruce's greatest gifts.

He didn’t just provide the soundtrack to our youth.

He gave us a soundtrack for growing older, too.

And now, at 77, he’s still here. Still creating. Still performing. Still believing in the power of music to bring people together. And we’re still fortunate enough to be along for the ride.

For more than five decades, your songs have somehow found us exactly where we are.

They’ve been there for the first loves and the broken hearts. The weddings and the funerals. The celebrations and the struggles. The long drives with nowhere in particular to go and the nights when we needed the music turned up just a little louder.

You wrote about the people who work hard, dream big, fall down, get back up, lose faith and somehow find it again. You taught us about hope and redemption, friendship and loyalty, love and loss, second chances and the promise that somewhere down the road there just might be something better waiting for us.

But speaking for the Spring-Nuts community, what you help us create through your music, became about something even bigger than the songs.

It became about each other.
Eleven years ago, this community began because of a shared love for your music. What none of us could have imagined was where that music would eventually take us.

Strangers became friends.

Friends became family.

People traveled thousands of miles together.

We stood beside one another at shows, celebrated marriages and births, mourned losses, helped people through some incredibly difficult times, and tried our best to live by one of the simplest and most important lessons we found in your music:
To take care of our own.

And somehow, through all of it, your music was always there. That may ultimately be one of the greatest gifts an artist can give. Not simply songs that people listen to, but songs that connect people to one another.

There are people in this community who would never have met if you hadn't picked up a guitar and started telling stories all those years ago. Friendships, relationships, memories and experiences exist today because somewhere along the way, your music brought our paths together.

At 77, you continue to remind us that rock and roll isn't measured by a number on a birth certificate. It's measured by the passion you bring to the stage, the truth you put into a song, and the connection that happens when thousands of people become one for a few unforgettable hours.

So today, from this crazy family we call the Spring-Nuts, we simply say:

Thank you, @springsteen .

Thank you for the words.

Thank you for the music.

Thank you for the concerts, the memories, the friendships and the miles.

Thank you for reminding us that dreams will not be thwarted and faith will be rewarded.

And through your music, may we all continue to find some reason to believe.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

Goodnight 🌙

[Daniel Hewitt @dbhewitt]

Why do all you MAGA fans have to hide, Roger?

[Regor LaTroy🩸🦅 🍊 @Regor_LaTroy]

@Mayoisspicyy You seem sad. Have you considered openly weeping.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

He was a piece of shit in the 80s, and he's still a piece of shit today.

[Merv Pilgrim 🕺🎶🍿 @mervpilgrim]

For real

[John Skrtic @SkrticX]

Great meeting Tyler Belinson at Davis Bakery in Woodmere. A Cleveland Heights native now living in Shaker Heights, Tyler has worked there since 2009. He cleans, helps with deliveries and does whatever needs doing. People like Tyler help keep Davis going.

[Daniel Hewitt @dbhewitt]

A familiar friendly face!!!

[John Skrtic @SkrticX]

It was a beautiful night for Cleveland baseball and a chance to photograph longtime vendor Charlie Sanders. A Chagrin Falls native, Charlie has worked games here since 1994. He has seen it all, including Rocchio’s game-winning double last night. Hope to see you in October!

[John Skrtic @SkrticX]

It was a beautiful night for Cleveland baseball and a chance to photograph longtime vendor Charlie Sanders. A Chagrin Falls native, Charlie has worked games here since 1994. He has seen it all, including Rocchio’s game-winning double last night. Hope to see you in October!

[G-Block 🅱️aby @motionsznn]

The first car to park on the trailer wins , I’ve never been so invested in a sport like this

[JavelinFella @JavelinFella]

@mariashriver Whatever the Orange Julius says these days, we all take with a grain of salt. Not only is he the most corrupt POTUS ever, but also the biggest liar.

[Uh Oh Finellio @UhOhFinellio]

@mariashriver

[William Patrick Corgan @Billy]

This is great news

[Melanie Young 🔧 @FreewheelinMY]

Bob Dylan performs “Going, Going, Gone” live in Forth Worth, Texas, in 1976.

A taste of what’s to come from The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1976 Live Recordings.